Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-09-13
\. OAK. MAGAZINE
The August Number Contains Write
Up Of Stutsman County and
Three lie aiding Towns

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The North. Dakota Magazine of Aug
ust is OUT. ..and Com missioner G ilbreaUh
of the State Agricultural Depart
menthas another good number. The
first pages contain one of the popular
history sketches Of the state by Col.
.Lounsberry and give a brief account
of the starting Of the expedition and
the first winter spent by Lewis and
Clark nea. Mandan In 1sO4-5. There
Is an article on North Dakota securi-
ties by A.C. Bohrnstedt and special
article on the introduction of bronze
grass into the state by B. S. Russell
of Jamestown. A sketch of Crystal
and vicinity in Pembina county is
given and good accounts OF the re-
sources and some of the leading
towns in eight of the counties of the
state.
Stutsman county has II pages de-
voted to an account of its resources
and the history of Jamestown, Medina
and Kensal. The facts regarding the
county are practically up to date and
were taken from the prize article ap-
pearing in the Jamestown Alert last
year. With years. steady growth
of the towns and county added to
large increase in population, and a
very large crop acreage increase with
an accompanying increase of yield
tho sketch of the county for 1906
would be fairly complete as general
article on the county and the above
mentioned towns.
Mr.. ,Russell's contribution is as fol-
lows:
About ten years AGO the present Sec
retary of Agriculture In the cabinet
of President Mckinley sent to North
Dakota many thousand pounds Of
seed of Austrian bronze grass. For
many years we tried to succeed With
timothy and red clover. Parcels of
bronze grass we're freely given to in
telligent farmers. One OF the first to
test was the Darlington & Casey Land
company in Foster county. 1t was
sown with: :oa is as purse crop. When
the oatswere cut the grass had seemed
to failed to grow and it was decided
to plow the land for next years SOW
ing to grain, but before the time TO-
plow the land came the grass had
made rapid growth, and the stock on
the farm when turned out OF the sta
bles took straight line for the field
where the grass was. When the wild
prairie grasses had turned brown by
the late frosts, the bronze grass was
yet green. Since then its culture has.
greatly increased. Stock of all kinds
eat it entirely, not rejecting any part
of it.
Recently In Kidder county I passed
a field of seventy-tive acres on the
farm of P.J.Lyous, whom / was in
strumental in inducing, few years
ago, to SOW it without a nurse crop,
Last year he threshed the crop on
fifty acres and sold the seed from the
thresher at net profit Of S27.50 per
acre and fed the straw as hay that
was eagerly eaten by the cattle. He
has seventy-five acres covered with
the crop this year and has cut and
stacked it and will thresh the pro-
duct Of fifty acres for seed for next
years sowing. s<
It is the coming grass Of North Da-
kota. While the profit per acre Mr..
Lyons received last year was great
one, 1t would have been more than
double had he kept the seed until
next spring. Timothy, red and white
clover and alfalfa are nov successful
be found within six feet OF the sur
face alfalfa can be successfully cu,ti-
vated land like bronze grass, " Ill yield
II white clover Is followed by the
planting Of apple trees we may look
for the honey bee to come, as both
those furnish their favorite forage.
IL i am right in these things. hen In
q very few years we can say. Of North 4
Dakota as was said Of Palestine, IL
5iss d land flowing with milk and hon
:ey. The rapidly increasing number
of dairies will give the milk the, bees
will gather the honey. sS b h B
10 Make Cltlzeas.
81 fudge Burke was a passenger Tues
Sdayfor NapOle con where he will hold q
term Of court for the purpose Of issu a
Ing citizens papers. The judge will
20 from there to n 'essenden, New