Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-12-24
PROF. THOMAS
SHAW'S ADDRESS
Continued from first paye.)

years, and in order to strike an aver
age on it he would have to divide the
yield by two. suppose he got yield
of 30 bushels of wheat; OH that plan
he would have to divide it by two.
On the other plan which am talking
about, II man gets his crop, which
ought to more than pay him for the
work while he is doing that work,
and he gets crop of grain in the
bargain the next year, while under
the bare fallow plan he wonld get
only one crop, Do not lose sig 1t Of
the fact that when summer crop is
grown, if followed up, when the crop
was removed, by Il plow, it would be
doing very much to undo what he had
done by!cultivating the land. He
would be loosening the ground and
a large portion of the moisture would
escape, so that system should be fol-
lowed simply by discing at that sea-
son of the year, and the disc followed
by harrow. do not know whether
or not you get good potatoes here
off the ground early enough to follow
by winter wheat. If you could,
! simply prepare the ground by discing
when the potatoes are removed.
When crops are taken out late in the
season, spring crops will follow bet
ter than winter crops.
will tell you farmers how win
ter crop can be made to follow sue
cessfullv. have never met a farmer
in Montana who has done it, but l
believe that it can be made Il success.
suppose a man goes into cOrntield
that has been properly taken care Of,
and he drills winter wheat between
the rows, while the corn is growing,
when the corn is removed the stalks
OF the corn that are left on the
ground will help to hold the snow
that falls in the winter and fail to
see why a good crop of winter wheat
cannot be grown after corn if sown
this way, but that is one of the things
vet to be proven.
If any of you farmers have any
facts to present that would tend to
show that you cannot grow it sue
cessfully along the lines am talking
about. would be glad to have those
facts brought out. No good can come
of a man coming and telling you that
you can do certain things if you cam
not do them. for the truth is bound
to come to the surface.
Fodder corn, notice say fodder
corn, can be grown successfully in
Montana at an elevation Of not more
than five thousand feet. l would a
little rather say four thousand feet,
but that would not quite take you in,
and want to take YOU people III.
Now it is not very often get an OPP
portunity to criticise my good friend
Professor Cooley. but he made little
opening tonight and think it would
be too bad to let al opportunity
pass without putting in little thrust.
He said corn grew very good at Hob
son this summer. | wonder when
You saw it Professor Cooley: q saw
it twice. l do not think You saw it
rs late as | did. The estimate l put
on that fodder corn, in your own val
ley, was about three tons, when cured
per acre. talked with the man in
charge who grew the corn. Now
want to say to You farmers that if You
can succeed in growing three tons Of
fodder corn, you are not working
under dry farming conditions.
want to say another thing about that
corn: it was not very large kind Of
corn, .Jehu, which is cross between
Squaw and Dent. I am ready to adj.
nit that there was Il little more
moisture this year than ordinary
years, but am satisfied that if corr
had been planted of larger variety
} even though there had been les.
, moisture, the results would have beer
just about as good.
was in Winnipeg, 100 miles nortl
Of the North Dakota border last sum
mer and saw fodder corn twelve fee
high, grown in the open air. wan
to tell you men that for the las
twenty-five years, at Indian Head
seventy miles northtOf the doundar,
| OF North Dakota, corn has been grown
J have had men in North Dakota loO|
J me straight in the eye and say "YO'
need not tell me You can raise corr
successfully in North Dakota, for
have been here for twenty-five year
J and know it can't be done. did no
: tell this man did not believe it, bu
l did not believe it. Why there is i
ShprWnnll within ahNlt six or StYn