Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-14
farmers SHOULD NOT
SELL YOUNG STOCK
FORAGE CAN BE SECURED BY
THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST
IT IS SAID.
Will Be Best II Farmers Carry Stock
Until the Middle Of Next Month as
They Will Profit Thereby.

The 500 line is sending OFT a cir.
cular letter to all OF their agents in
the state to warn the farmers in their
respective communities as far as pos,
sible OF the need of their carrying
their young stock until they will be
able to raise a forage crop for them
The letter is self explanatory and Of
fers extra good advice which ought
to be needed by all the residents of
the agricultural districts of Burleigh
county:
The unfortunate crop conditions,
with resultant shortage OF feed, has
created a tendency among farmers
to sell a large amount of young stock
which ordinarily, they would hold un-
til 1t was of proper marketable age.
The results OF doing this will be
very bad and it should be discourage
ed and stopped as far as possible.
Farmers should make extraordinary
efforts to carry such stock until the
middle OF August, when fodder corn
will be available I quote:
Fodder corn is valuable forage.
1t permits of early or late planting,
and is harvested before the general
corn crop is mature. Large yields of
dry forage or of silage are obtained,
which for cattle, sheep, young stock
or even horses, is an excellent feed.
For mich cows it is second only to
alfalfa and clover Much could be
stated about the valuable crop but
the purpose is merely to advise the
farmers to sow corn thickly for fod-
der, thus tiding over the hay short.
age period and save the live stock.
THE seed is planted in drills about
three feet, six inches apart. From one
bushel, fifty-six pound to sixty pounds
are sown to the acre. When q two
horse corn planter is not to be had,
grain drill mot broad cast seed
err will do the work satisfactorily.
Cover the seed cups of the drill
with piece of wood or tin so as to
leave the open tubes the proper dis
lance apart for the rows. Open the
The seeds should be about two inches
apart. If the seed cups do not open
wide enough to permit sowing at
least one bushel to the acre, readjust
the closed ones so as to leave two
adjacent cups open, thus planting
double rows or drills C to 8 inches
apart) and about forty-two inches,
on center, apart. The seeds in the
double rows should be from three to
four inches apart. to SOW the desired
amount to the acre.
The experiment station in 1900
planted fodder corn July IL and har-
vested it in the fall and secured a
good tonnage of excellent fodder. The
stalks crew slender and about five
feet high. When fed the animals left
no stubs or stalks in the managers"
Please take this matter up at once
with merchants. farmers, bankers and
others at your station with a view to /
as much as possible
along these lines and preventing the
deplorable results which will surely
follow the selling by our farmers of I.
heir young live stock before the !
proper time.
Whatever is done along these lines j;
must be done al once.
The state authorities. are working
along these lines and will be glad to
and if we can be of fur I,
her assistance.
After you have had sufficient time
% go into the matter intelligently,
please write me what you develop re-
yarding prospects, etc., referring to
his letter.