The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-10-31
GETTING lin THE cRoPs.
The Importance of Safe Shelter En-.
phasized by e. L. Vincent.

| am never really happy till all my
farm crops are safely under cover.
In fact I do not know that I havesa any
crops that will bring me anything
until all have been slowed away out
OF the reach Of storm and weather.
The next thing to this is threshing
out of doors inst as soon as the grain
Is dry enough: and Often we are not
able to do this because we cannot
get a threshec when we want him.
know it costs to provide buildings
for a large farm. The first expense of
building in these days is high, for
lumber and building material of all
kinds are high in price. 1t is also a
fact that the farmer who has many
buildings must set aside no small
sum every year to pay for repairs and
insurance.
And yet, stop and think that the
loss OF n crop through storm or
other adverse circumstances would
offset all this and more, too for
good many years. Take a wheat crop
of SO acres, for example. Say that it
would yield IS bushels to the
acre. which, by the way, is the report
from n of the first crops threshed in
Illinois this year. That would mean a
yield Of 900 bushels, worth at a fats
estimate a dollar a bushel. 80
There have been years when We
have lost about one-half the value Of
our crop by reason of storm. We could
not thresh when we should and the
grain we did get was not worth as
much as it would have been could it
have beer put in the bins in good Dr.
der. What does this mean? What
but that we have sustained a money
loss of $3.50 in that one years crop.
That would keep the buildings up in
good repair Tor a great many years.
But wheat is not the only crop most
farmers of to-day harvest. There is
hay, n of the best crops we have,
bringing at the present writing in
some parts of the couLs,--s from $40 to
SIS a ton. Also oats, another fine
crop. The value of these deperxs
largely on the condition at marketing
CT feeding. Stacking is always a
risky business. Not ono man out Of
dozen can stack grain or hay so thar
it will keep any length of time.
Nothing adds to the looks or the
worth of a farm more than good barns
or sheds for storing grain. Prospec-
tive buyers always notice the condi-
ton of these buildings, and if there
are none to notice they are very apt
to pass on until they find farm which
are thus furnished.
Still another point in favor of plenty
of barn room is the stabling Of
stock. The day is fast going by when
any farmer will feel easy in body or
mind while a lot of his stock is out
in the storm. Just think of the ter
rible losses every winter from stock
exposure in the west! Leaving the
humane part of it out of the question
just now from an economical stand
point alone not a single farmer in all
this country can afford to stand still
and let a considerable part of his herd
die in the winds and the SHOWS of our
northern winters.
Shall a man incur a debt to build
farm barns? hate debt as much as
anyone on the face of the earth; but
really l would rather go with poor
clothes for years and years and econo.
mize in other ways rather than to
go without barns. They will soon pay
for themselves. They are the right
thing for every up-to-date farmer
Farmers Review.