Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-03-25
RAISE VEGETABLES
AND SAVE MONEY
Potatoes Shipped From England.
Text Of Timely Bulletin From
Experiment Station.

u 0AAOAo S0A 0oVV SOl61OO4d dOlO
| money. in the course of a year by
growing and storing vegetables for
! the table instead Of buying canned
goods. A half acre of garden, prop.
erly cultivated, will produce much
more profit than any other similar
area of land on the farm. A bulle-
tin from the agricultural college, pre-
! pared by c. B. Waldron, furnishes
! some practical information regarding
the vegetable garden, the secret of
success of which is to bring about a
rapid growth, which means crispness,
tenderness and high quality, and
which is accomplished by keeping the
soil rich, mellow and moist. Such
splendid vegetables as can be grown
in North Dakota ought to stimulate
every farmer to put in little extra
care in this work during the early
spring and summer season, and in
the fall he will be able to store his
cellar full Of the finest table food. A
small hot bed for starting some of
the tender plants is easily obtained
A square frame, foot deep, placed
upon a pile of compost about two
feet thick, the top of the frame COW
cred with sash makes good tenn
porary hot bed. Sow the seed in
shallow boxes containing fine, mel
low earth and place these in the hot
bed. Cabbage and tomato plants
started this way get good start for
the outdoor garden, and ii they get
rooted before hard frost they come
thru without injury.
The onion crop of North Dakota is
a profitable one and the yield is enor-
NOUS The common vegetables like
beans, peas, beets, radishes, and par
snips, will give fine returns IL they
have plenty Of room in which to grow
and frequent cultivation. Several
varieties of excellent sweet corn,
ready in July, can now be grown in
North Dakota, with other varieties
coming a little later. Tomatoes,
grown and ripened in North Dakota,
have richness and flavor that can
not be approached by the shipments
from other states. The tomato plant
f1ourishes best in light, warm, but
not too rich soil, and the plants set
out by June ought to produce crop
in seven weeks. A single tomato
vine will produce from a peck to a
half bushel Of tomatoes, which
shipped in and sold by grocers are
worth 20 cents pound. A single
acre Of garden will produce more rev.
enue for family than the profit of
30 acres of wheat land whose gross
yield is $40 an acre. A number of
practical suggestions can be had by
anyone writing to the agricultural
experiment. station for Press Bulle-
tin No. 81. .1..-
The quality ana yield of potatoes
in North Dakota is now well known
thruout the country. The queer fea-
ture of this matter is that North
Dakota does not raise it's own pota-
toes, sufficient for consumption but
must depend upon shipments from
other states. We have a natural
vegetable and poultry growing state,
and yet we are SO infatuated with
the fallacy Of devoting all our ener-
gies to grain, that the products
which would give us a real profit are
neglected. 1t is strange anomoly to
read. in a recent dispatch from Phil
adelphia, that 10000 bushels of fore
ign potatoes were received there this
week from Glasgow and Liverpool.
STATE EMBALMINC BOARD
At the recent Embalmers board
meeting at Fargo ten applicants
passed the examination, held at
prior meeting, and their certificates
were granted. Among the number
was Ed Gault of Jamestown. There
are several lady embalmers author
lied to act in the state. A new law