Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-25
CORN AND CLOVER.

North Dakota grows the finest
wheat seed flax and now she is COM
ing to the front with corn and Glow
er, and in their trail follows live
stock. At Grand Forks the fact was
brought out that North Dakota has
been growing corn for 30 odd years.
Mr.. O. C. Gregg for % years superin-
tendent of Minnesota Farmers 1nsti'
tutes has for the past season travel
ed all over North Dakota and states
that he has been surprised at the
fine exhibits of corn that he has seen
in all parts Of the state, which indi-
Gates that corn growing is to take
prominent part in North Dakota.
Agricultural Supt Hoverstad states
that he has seen finer clover grow
ing in North Dakota than in any
other state, giving fine crops of hay
and almost phenomenal yields Of
seed.
Thus we have system Of cropping
and husbandry in practice on many
North Dakota farms that mean per-
manept agriculture and the rest of
the farmers are fast falling into line.
This growing of corn and clover
does not mean less grain but rather
more grain and of better quality and
the crop of some clover and stock
in the bargain.
The Herald makes these pertinent
comments:
The attendance at the Corn and
Glover exposition is really remarkable
when the condition of the weather is
considered in connection with the
fact that the meeting is new thing
here. and the the special features
which it is desired to emphasize here
are such that few years ago no one
wuld have thought of suggesting
them for the consideration of gath
ering of northwestc:H farmers.
We were told a few years ago that
practically nothing Of the grain kind
would grow here except wheat, and
that corn was utterly out of the ques-
ton. And today corn is one Of the
staples of the northwestern country.
1t has been proven success. 1t is
true that We cannot expect this coun-
try to be a corn country as Illinois
and Kansas are corn countries.
There are some enthusiasts who will
dispute this, but it is just as we'll to
face the facts. We cannot charge the
location of the parallels of latitude,
nor the fact that we are farther
north, and have shorter summer
season than Kansas. 1t has been
demonstrated that we can raise corn
here, and that we can do it profit.
ably. But the average time between
killing frosts here is shorter than it !
is farther south, always was and al
ways will be, and it is not likely
that we will ever see the time when
We will be sending out trainloads of
corn as We are now sending out !
trainloads of wheat, or as corn is !
sent out from the states in what is
distinctively the corn belt.
But that is not necessary. We can
leave corn out of consideration entire
ly as a shipping crop, and still have
in corn one of the best crops that can
be raised on the farm. 1t is useful
for it's service in cleaning the land
and restoring it to the condition need
ed for other crops. 1t is useful as
ration for beef animals, and with this
end in view due regard can be had
for the exigencies Of the season, and
in favorable years it can be and is
ripened, while if the conditions are
not favorable for this, it car be used
as fodder. And in the form of silage
it is the most useful crop grown, and
there is no territory in which more
food in this form can be produced
per acre than in North Dakota. The
corn crop is one of the most valuable
adjuncts to clean farming, to stock
raising and to dairying, and in these
respects it is crop to be used liber-
ally if the state never ships bushel
of the ripened grain.
Glover, like corn, was at one time
to be impossible in North
Dakota. And again a mistake was
made. AS fine crops of clover are
grown in this state every year as are
grown anywhere. Clover is not influ-
enced by latitude until we get several
hundred miles north of where we are.
It was supposed that clover would
not grow here just because it would
not grow. There was lot of super
'tition about it. That superstition
has been dissipated. And we are
raising the clover, producing big
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cool ones, and under all sorts of con.
litions. The work of informing the
people how this is to be done. and
how it may most profitably be done
Is a worthy work and one which
must be promoted.
Those who were fortunate enough
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