Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-01-25


withheld when drainage, iim-l
prove machinery or repairs are1
needed, or when d better grade
of live stock or seed grain is re-
CURED is money lost. The same
is true when less labor is givenl
to blowing or cultivating the|
soil than is required to- putt in; |
the best possible condition bel
fore planting the seed. It would
be az reasonable to put the farm
teams on half rations in order
to economize horse feed.
Farm management ID gradual
" becoming a a science. " Many
farmers d. not seem to be aware
Of this fact The greas trouble
is that farmers generally try to
farm: ton, much land. They
spread their limited. managing
ability over too. large an / area.
Everywhere there. il evidence
Of a great waste !. If. feed, waste
of fertility and'waste of manure.
The fields are ill arrranged,s
buildings planned without re-
gard to convenience or the great
est utility Crops aregrown up
on hit or miss plan, and Oft
times without reference: to the
market; and, also, instead of con-
sidering :: farming asa long
time proposition, too many ( arn-
ers. farm one year at a time. y.
THERE'S neither. system or bus.
mess method employed when
both are so imperative in order
to. insure the best results. Ne
cessity, however, is forcing bet
ter business methods upon the
farm, and has caused the expert
ment Stations and the depart-
ment of agriculture to make 4
special study of farm manage
ment. What this northwestern
country requires above all other
things is "a closer study of all the
agencies and elements that emit.
er into farming operations.
It is not sufficient to calculate
the maximum Of profit that is.
possible, to be made in a single
year, but the average profit that
may be made indefinitely, and
one should farm each year with,
future years taken into and
made a part Of the calculation.
To produce the best results the
farm should be fenced into as
many fields as a definite system
of crop rotation will require to
move from the cultivated crop
around to- the same cultivated
crop again, three, four or FIVE
years later. I: mention the Gull
=tivated crop specifically, be-
cause there. can be no true reta-
ton without a cultivated crop
such as cora, potatoes Or other
root 5crops. RI - 4 4i!] j. s Ss}.
= The cultivated fieldnay contain
corn, potatoes. mangles, etc,
that is to say, such plants ais re-
quire frequent cultivation of the
soil during the growing season.,
Following the cultivated crop,
fax, oats or barley may be grown;
following flax, heat, with Glow
er seed; following wheat, a crop
of clover, which, by the way,
should not stand more than one
year, we come back to the cult
waited crop again aud start on the
second round. seeding the fields
in the same order? as before.
This makes zfour-year rotati ID
! and requires the farm tobe fenc-
ed into four fields. gIf a sfiye-year
rotation is desirable, then seed
a crop of oats and barley be.
tween theclover and the corn.
Bysgrowing wheat two years in
succession we have q six-year
rotation. The field upon which
the clover seed is sown should
be given a coat Of Il barayard ma.
lnure. This 1nanuring} should}rot
tate as regularly as tine. cultivat.
led crop. Il ~ .,ts s5 h,
] Locality j, quality Of soil,
amount and distribution Of mois.
ture AMI extent that dairyine
/ Or rearing live stock is engaged
i in sI,ny1lfs %Aatarr71i ma the M f,si