The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-10-07
A. G., News Notes.
Corn Show IN Assured Success.

The Corn Show m Assured Success.
The writer recently swung down in
10 the Iowa part Of the corn belt, and
returned via South Dakota, covering
ON the trip good deal of country Wis
tied eighteen and twenty years ago.
On my table are lying, as l write,
samples of corn picked from the South
Dakota fields. In these days l recall
that they did not think you could grow
corn at a profit in South Dakota.
Some of the corn on my table comes
from Salem, little city about thirty
miles west of Sioux Falls, where to-
day corn holds the place with them
that wheat holds with us, and is con-
sidering quite as safe.
Corn Moves NOrthward
spent couple years in that state
eighteen years ago. Around Mllbank
one or two farmers were trying corn
a little. Out at Mellette, thirty miles
or so souuh of Aberdeen they were
all wheat-you couldn't grow corn, or
so they believed. On the fifteenth
inst. | picked at random three ears
from field of corn a couple miles
west of Melle.te, two of which are
good enough for seed, and the third
would make good corn for the crlD.'
Nearly every farm has it's field, not as
large as the great corn fields farther
south, and that is we'll, but fields OF
fair size, and run, not as a chance
crop, but as, one of the regular pay
Ing crops Of the farm. In fact, the
Merlette corn fields, as whole, was
better than the Salem field, 80 miles to
the south.
Promise for North Dakota
This march of the corn belt across
. state in less than quarter OF
century leads one to believe that what
has happened to South Dakota within
is years will happen to North Dakota
In a less interval OF time. This year
I have seen good corn at Langdon'
and fair ensilage corn at Willlston,
with thirty days Of corn growing sea-
son ahead of each crop. At Nllnot the
writer accompanied Mr.. Colcord, OF
the Ward County Independent, on
two days trip in that vicinity, and saw
at least one field that was past the
roasting ear stage over hive weeks
ago, In the southeastern part OF the
state it today holds more promise Oh
successful culture than it did in Blue
Earth county, Minnesota in the '7Otles.
Its promise in the Mouse River loop
Ia as great as it was in northern South
Dakota twenty years ago.
The Necessary Lesson
The. necessary lesson in corn grow
ing is to grow cOrn--hoW to gro"
corn. What took the farmers OF
other states and former years decades
to learn, the people OF North Dakota
are learning in few short years. A
recent article in the American Thresh-
AMMAN describes how the children OF
this state, aided by the county super
mtendents of schools, and by the Az
xicultural College, are growing corn IN
Nttle plots for their school contests.
over five thousand of them are engag-
I'd in this work, and no part OF the
,tate is barred on account OF natural
conditions. The lesson OF small
ear, maturity. thoro cultivation, quail
sty-this is being learned by the men
who will be farmers after a while.
The farmers of today are equally in
serested. The lesson is being learned,
and corn can and will be grown as
= paying, money crop.
Corn is Necessary Crop
Corn is one Of those crops nature
seems to have intended to be grown.
Fhe ground needs the thoro tillage
that good corn demands. 1t puts it in
better mechanical condition. For this
season corn is better than summer
saNow for land. 1t gives return for
Che work done; summerfallow wastes
= year. Corn is necessary to the most
profitable stock raising and dairying.
Other things may replace it in the
feeo lot-that is an open question:
but for dairying it is one of the ne
esssary things; and with dairying
goes nog raising, rotation Of crops,
better yields, better returns, better
diving, better homes, safe and profit
able farming.
Last Years Corn. Show
vas in every way success. The one
Mat will be held this year in Fargo at
she time of the Tri-Stae Grain Grow
srs Convention gives, this early in the
season, promise of being in every way
nuch larger, and better. Already a
large number of growers from all
parts of the state, have entered the
lists. The results will be corn show
that will delight the heart of any