The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-12
WORST TALKS ON
DRY FARMING
PRESIDENT OF THE A. C. AND or
THE DRY FARM CONGRESS
TALKS AT sERTHoLo-sPLEN-
DID MEETING SAY THOSE WHO
RETURNED YESTERDAY.


thold Saturday was a splendid sue
cess despite a stormy day. says Prof. 81
w. c, Palmer of the A. G. who was
one Of the speakers, and who return
ed yesterday. The institute was con-
Quoted by Superintendent Hoverstad
and the address of the day was de-
| livered by President Worst of the A.
| C.. and also the International Dry
| Farm congress. He talked on Dry
| Farming.
| At the close Of the meeting a local
institute was organized with the fol-
lowing officers:
President-P w. Arnold.
| Vice President-Henry Fink.
Secretary-Ed Jones
In the evening President Worst de-
livered another address on Mans Do
minion over Nature.
At the institute meeting In the aft
ernoon Professor Palmer discussed
Corn, Glover and Alfalfa and r. II.
Pierce, assistant dairy commissioners.
talked on dairying. There was splen-
did interests and many questions were
asked. Superintendent Porter of the
state demonstration farms discussed
Rotations and the Results Obtained by
Rotation. He has doubled the yield
| on the farms run three years. The
t business men served free dinner and
supper.
f President Worst's Address,
President Worst in his talk on Dry
Farming said in part:
? Deep blowing is the first essential
: in dry farming. II let's the rain fall
get into the soil quickly, thus lessen
ing the runoff which is equivalent to
increasing the rainfall. Then again
4 the deeply plowed ground furnishes
: more space for the roots to feed In. as
the plant gets most of its food from
!. the furrow slice as evidenced by the
d poor growth that the plant makes I'm
the dead furrow. Where is has to feed
y on the soil that has not been brought
= up to the action OF the sun air frost
a and weathering agencies In the west
3 they pillow ten to twelve inches deep
8 and then subsoil once in a while five
! or six inches deeper.
Keeping the moisture from evapor-
ating is the next thing TO do after
\ it has been absorbed by the soil. The
j way to do this lie to keep the surface
loose. The moisture passes quite
| quickly through a compact soil, but
!. It passes only slowly through a loose
soil Just as coffee will pass quickly
through a lump OF sugar, but only
very slowly through powdered sugar.
To keep the soil loose, In the case or
~ fall blowing harrow IL as early as pos
he sibIe in the spring. Then after the
lie grain is up a couple Of inches harrow
ir ii again. 1t can be narrowed quite
oE thoroughly too"
Iy He related an instance at the Agri-
lie cultural college where some grain had
lg been planted on ground that was
ut wanted for something else. Men were
10 sent to harrow the wheat to Kill II.
ne They narrowed till they thought they
er had it all killed, yet the wheat came
on and made a yield of twenty eight
er bushels almost twice as much as on
nd the fields that were not narrowed. He
g. stated that in Montana some OF the
T. farmers harrow grain until II heads
CO out Athers use the weeder.
n THE summer fallow is used a good
deal" continued the president. at
saves moisture and kills weeds. Where
it is practised large yields are secured.
of the trouble with this fallow is that IL
Ial is hard on the land. Here the rainfall
is sufficient for growing corn some or
r. the farmers testified that they found
81 more moisture in the corn ground than
in the summer fallow. This win also
he save moisture and xiii weeds and has
the further advantage that 1t takes UP
Ter the plant food that is made available
he and at the same time adds some or
a ganic matter. It also furnishes a val
h. liable fodder and grain crop. Potatoes
-ar are another crop that can be used for
an Killing weeds and saving up moisture.
nd Organic Matter Necessary.
or "Organic matter is also necessary;
lst IL helps to hold moisture, to hold plant
i'd food, and 1t also holds the soil grains
together so as to prevent drifting. The
er, growing of grasses Is one Of the best
ways to add 1t to the soil. Cloves
I, and alfalfa are particularly valuable
lift. In fact / do not think that you car
,ss, keep up farming without these crops
"It is very necessary that weeds bt
led eradicated: they take the plant food
OF and the moisture that the plant should
ass have. Fan your grain. rotate youi
crops, make war on the weeds Alst
select seed grain carefully and clear
-iff it thoroughly Fan it so as TO elimi
nate the small and shrunken kernels
these are from scrub or runt plants /
they are planted a scrub crop will b
,as the result. Raising scrub crops II
- time makes a scrub farmer
,se DIR. Widtsoe OF the Utah Expert
- ment station has found that a GRO
.as. does not need as much moisture 4
make given growth on a rich sol
as on a poor one. Just as 1t will no
take as much rich soup to furnish
given amount Of nourishment as 0
thin soup.
-. This year IL an inch of rainfall ha
r most. q good crop would have bee
the result 1t would not have bee
difficult TO have saved two inches Q
n moisture by cultivation and thus
y have turned poor crop into . goo
~ one.
Attention must be gi~en TO savin
the fertility The farmer who take
a piece of virgin land and leaves
all poorer than he found It. liz q detri
e ment to the country"
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