Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-02-07

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The butter from the twenty cows
averaged Up 70 about $50 per month
for each animal giving profit per
anl1um OF $500. ss5i3
Also fifteen calves at So each, $l35. A
Chickens raised and fed on our. own
prodace and the eggs therefrom, $l50.
q Pigs fed on skim milk, corn, corn
suckers and allowed to run TO the ripe
rye stack, SIS. 4 $5s s5s3
Bees, SIS. .szg s:5 n: Al a5 ri
Navy beans, $50. sazG III
Value Of vegetables, with butter, ,
eggs. honey, chickens, pork, beans,
etc, consumed by the family, about
s 100 5.st5s . s@
Total expenses were $40; for bran
and S for help with the hay, leaving A
total profit for the yearof 81, l20, and
no rent 70 pay, or gas. Or water }s5 q
pesp PteN,ins Essential. q;
The following season. after breaking
the sod, I managed e SIT the plow
down about foot and The moisture
began to gain in the SUB
soil, and in ! few years / had perna-.:
nently moist substratum Of three 70
four feet, and when The dry years 81
t9S and '994 appeared with = precipita-
ton 81 only 8 and 9 inches, respective
", the shrinkage in some Of the crops
did not amount to 2 bushel an acre
below the average. !. II /. ,#F 81
Right here we touch on the philoso-
ply Of dry farming. We AL know that
the roots Of crop will never BY any
chance penetrate the subsoil unless i
is moist. In moist subsoils, which can
be secured only BY deep blowing and
following, have found the roofs Of
cereals three to four feet underground.
This is most significant fact ia dry
farm operations, and its value can
hardly be overestinated in the produc-
ton Of crops, when we come 70 com
pare the amount 81 plant food sup
piled by three feet IF soil, TO that sup
piled By seven inches. 4 say seven
inches because that IS the usual depth
that the every day farmer scratches
the ground in western America. This
depth is easily soaked up when our
moisture comes all at once, which i
usually does, and then the surplus runs
of and is lost, very little being assorb-
ed by the subsoil. ,3..!S :. :, :.
h I have read Of farmers being afraid
to plow under stubble or other roots
for fear Of stopping the action Of capil-
iarity between the subsoil and tie
loose ;plowed ground above il. This IS
absurd for it it not once ID fifty years
that the subsoil becomes sufficiently wet
for capillarity TO act. a>:.s: IA. is5
But this subsoil moisture does rise
to some extent i, hot, dry seasons by
distillation: the ground becomes warm,
the vapor rises, it is caught under
meath the mulch and there condenses
during the night in the form Of Under
ground dew. ss sssxsss -s@s y
The above points will explain to any
intelligent farmer why the difference
between seven and ten-inch blowing
will about double his crops at an extra
expense of only one dollar IN acre,
which represents the work Of one more
horse per plow. III ss s.. t $:., u
d The family orchard I planted in 1884
md ~ did 80 ven and gained % much
81 moisture that in 1895 planted !
commercial orchard 81 3 600 apples,
splums and cherries. / am still adding
to the original orchard. .:s5 ...: B
~ success with Orchard.
~ The fifth year from planting the
cherries Ind plums had paid all the ex-
penses Of trees and cultivation to date.
Since then i have cleared from
IS, 800 to 81 900, including two bad
years. From a six or seven year old
cherry tree / have repeatedly picked
over 4 crate Of cherries, worth about
So lin the Denver market. The climate
tnf Colorado Isl perfect for cherries, es-
9pecially the Montmorency, but irriga-
ton, Or too much food water will Kill
them. The cherries should be planted
on top Of the slope. the plums next and
The apples near the bottom, where they
can absorb the rdn-of from the trees
above NJ .SSSs 4 m
When an orchard IS well cultivated
the question Of moisture needs no fur-
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