The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1910-01-22

operating with tie station in the grow
ing of medium red clover, alfalfa and
winter wheat p
The amount of land given over to
these experiments is now 565 acres
located In twenty different coun-
ties of the state. About 100 acres Of
this is at Mcleod and was not cropped
the past season. Sixty acres of it
was broken up, however, backset and
made ready for crop and experimental
work next year. On all the farms six
ty-one acres of this land was in oat
and pea hay, which gave an average
yield of S242 pounds of dry hay per
acre Twenty eight acres was in flax
which gave an average yield of 9.61.
bushels per acre after the dockage
was removed and estimated at 56
pounds per bushel. Fifty-tree acres
was in barley which gave a yield of
1884 bushels per acre. Twenty-four
acres was in oats, which gave an avers
age yield of 54.52 bushels per acre by
weight. Seventy four acres was i'm
corn, which yielded on an average
1852 pounds of air dry fodder per acre.
Ten of these farms or. forty acres had
WCAl lIldIuACu COIIs WuICH ylGIuSu It.bU
bushels of shelled corn per acre. The
yields OF wheat are most striking. On
the first six farms, started in the spring
of 1906, wheat gave an average yield,
machine measure, of 1884 bushels per
acre. The six started in the spring
of 1907, wheat gave an average yield
of 1922 bushels per acre. The eight
farms started last spring gave an av-
erage yield of 14.40 bushels machine
measure. The United States depart-
ment of agriculture estimates the
yield of North Dakota for the past sea-.
son at 1910 bushels per acre, which
is probably about equal to machine
measure.
At each of these farms az the four
acre plots were being threshed four
half bushels from the threshing mach
Inc elevator were caught in a sack at
intervals during the threshing. it was
the intention to catch a half bushel
from each quarter of the plot. This
sack was weighed and sample of the
grain was sent into the agricultural
college laboratory and an e5tillate
made OF the weed seed and foreign
matter 1t contained. This dockage was
subtracted from tfe weight of the
grain in the sack, and the number of
bushels recorded by the machine was.
multiplied by the actual weight of each
bushel. this was divided by so III the
case of wheat. This method of obtain
ing actual yields of grain puts all the
demonstration farms on exactly the
same basis. The actual yields obtained
by this method from the first six farms
was 1885 bushels per acre: from the
second six 22.06 buhsels, and from the
eight started last spring but 1928 bush
els. The first six farms overrun
machine measure SO of a bushel; the
second six urderrun machine measure
.16 of a bushel per acre. and the eight
started last spring underrun machine
measure 1.12 bushels per acre. The
reason the first six farms 0verrun ma
chine measure is on account OF the
grain being clean and plump, which
made light dockage and heavyweight
per bushel This was true of the second
six to a lesser degree The eight
started last, spring contained much
more weed seed and the yield was not
only low. but the weight was as well
consequently the weight of the heat
was over q bushel less than was es-
timated by machine measure The
farmer who grows small crops of
grain nearly always grows large crops
OF weeds and the farmer who grows
small crops OF weeds, almost invaria-
bly, grows large crops or grain.
Average Yields on Farms.
The average yield OF hard wheat
(fife and blue stem) was 1857 bushels;
the average yield Of n1acaroni wheat
was 2S.48 bushels per acre. The low
yield of hard wheat is probably large
" due to the fact that 1t grown on
ten plots OF the new farms, while