The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-08-02

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| feed and the net profit realized. The
profit is for butter alone, not including
| the value of the calves, skim milk OF
manure.
The cost of labor is not taken into
consideration for the reason that hired
labor is neither necessary or desirable
on the average farm, unless for specia
work. Let the number of cows and the
size of the farm be in proportion tc
the help of the family. A l6-year ole
will do as well in the dairy as S3C
a month man, and if the barn is warm
and clean and well lighted, and the
work systematized and done within
proper hours the objection so often
raised against dairy work will be en-
tirely overcome. The sales of the butter
pay the expense of running the house.
hold on the farm and those of the
dairy.
Farming Along All Lines.
Mr.. Mcclure does not confine his opera
lions to the dairy, but is farming along
all lines, demonstrating clearly that the
soil of northern Minnesota is adapted to
the raising Of grains, grasses and vege-
tables. The experimental farm has
made good as the following will show:
The yield of the different crops grown
on the experiment farm under normal
field conditions during the season of
1906, is as follows:
Wheat, twenty bushels per acre. Var
iety, university, l69. Soil, sandy loan.
MANFRED and in potatoes 1905.
Oats, forty bushels per acre. Variety,
improved Ligono. Soil, clay loan. In
clover and timothy 1905.
Barley, nineteen bushels per acre. Va
riety, Manschuri. Soil, clay loan. Low
and very wet
Peas, twenty-one bushels per acre.
Variety, Canada field. Soil, sandy loan.
MANFRED and in peas 1905. MANFRED
lightly in 1906
Hay, two and two thirds tons per
acre, single cutting. Medium red clover
and timothy. Soil, from clay loan to
sandy loan. Most of crop first year
cutting.
Fodder corn five to ten tons per acre,
green weight, (put in silo.) Spring wes
and cold. unfavorable for fodder corn.
Soil varying with different fields from
clay to sandy loan. Most of fodder
corn grown in meadow (clover and tim
othy) 1905. Variety of seed, Minnesota
l3.
How the Potatoes Grow.
Potatoes, GAG bushels per acre; 9S4
bushels on four acres. Soil, sandy loan.
In fodder corn 1905. MANFRED lightly
1905 tand 1906. Variety, Carmen No. l.
A white potato, oval in shape, medium
to late in maturing. This variety has
yielded highest on. the experiment farm
for eight years; seventy varieties tested.
Stock carrots, fifteen and fourth
tons per acre or $40 bushels. Soil, sandy
or SO bushels. Soil, sandy loan. In
loan. In roots 1905. MANFRED 1905 and
1906 Variety, Mastodon stock carrot.
The above mentioned crops were
grown under a system of practical farm
ing and the yields the average of the
fields, not of experiment plots.
Various varieties of wheat, oats, bar
ley, flax, rye, speltz, millet, etc., were
grown in experiment plots, but the yield
of the fields is given as better com
parison of average crops.
The season 1906, while very unfavor-
able in many respects, was fair as a
whole, so that the yield of the different
crops with few exceptions is about an
average. The farm has been in exist
ance ten years.
Improving the Buildings.
Superintendent Mcclure is making
many improvements on the experimental
farm, charging the barns and granaries
md extending his operations as far as
The limited supply of money which the
state appropriated will permit. A visit
to this farm is most interesting and
,ne gains a wide knowledge of what can
be done in the way of farming in north
,rn Minnesota. Mr.. Mcclure is doing
along the line of fruit rails
ng, furnishing evidence that the finest
varieties of apples can be produced IN
hat country. 1t is surprising to lay
man that so much can be done on the
states farm where only four men are
regularly employed. On every hand there
ire evidences of the most systematic
work. Superintendent Mcclure is do
NC much to show to the world the
agricultural possibilities of northern
Minnesota. He is missionary in the
ield and is spreading the right kind OF
gospel.
Bovey, the New Mining Town.
Through the courtesy of MIR. Towns
berry, | saw Bovey and Collerame, the
lew mining towns, about nine miles
rom Grand Rapids. The Oliver Min
NC company is expanding millions
lereabouts and converting the terri
,ory into a beehive of industry.
year and a half ago the towns were
brought into existence. They have
yrown like mushrooms, and out of the
wilderness have been born two OF the
busiest spots on earth. Many build
nos are being erected, streets laid out /
md other signs of coming great lndust
,ial and commercial centers are evident
IN every hand. The company has al
ready begun to mine, but has not as
vet shipped a pound of ore. Millions OF
dollars will be dug from the earth's in
ards" and more wealth will be added to
northern Minnesota. Bovey and Collier
aine both look the part of mining towns.
In Bovey the saloon is planted on every
business street. / counted eight in one
block. There are twenty-one III the
town, and the new conner who contem-
plates starting another one will have to
draw hard on his inauguration for a
name for his grogshop.