Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-02-25

the other work needed to be done.
II he averages - acres per day and
attends 70 the other work that must
be done 10 put in crop he Will do
well. This should give him $50 acres
broken up and leave him 10 acres
wild pasture on his homestead. which
will be all that he will need if he fol-
lows "soiling methods Of handling
his livestock. The plan as here out
lined presuppoSes that the settler has
bought ten grade Jersey I1eiferS. bred
to calves in March, and ten Doroc
Jersey gifts, bred to pigs III April,
out with him in his car: also brought
corn enough with him to run him
through the first winter and spring.
His horses he had better purchase
where he locates, as horses brought
from the states do not do we'll the
first season and will not stand up to
the spring work like horses that are
acclimated.
What Crops to Put In.
Now as to crops to put in to take
care OF the amount of livestock above
described. In the first place. on the
first breaking, artichokes should be
dropped in every second furrow close
up to the edge Of the sod. Two fur
rows should then be plowed and an
other row of tubers planted. The
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which would give them plenty OF
room. The sod should then be rolled
so as to make Il perfect sod mulch.
and the pulverzer run over it once,
which is all the attention the crop
will need, as there will be no weeds
the first season. At least five acres
OF the very first blowing should be
put into articllokes and the next ten
acres should be put into potatoes.
inder suitable conditions the field
will run from 80 to $50 bushels per
acre.
The next crop to put in is Canadian
peas. For these the sod should be
single disked. Twenty acres of
peas sown broadcast and then dislled
in for hay and then % acres that are
Intended to thresh should he drilled
i'll with Planet Junior Seeder, driven
by Il single horse. Twenty-Five acres
should be put in roots. such as sugar
beets, turnips. carrots and rutabayas.
Five acres should next be put in SOY
beans. Twenty-Five acres can then be
put in bald barley. Ten acres can be
put into macarOni wheat. and last ~
acres should be seeded to alfalfa. \
good stand of alfalfa can he gotten on
sod Just as easy as a stand OF dan.
The seed bed for this latter should be
thoroughly prepared by disking and
narrowing, and the seed drilled in and
narrowed at once, after which it must
not be intertered with by narrowing.
as the plant is very tender and is
easily broken off. 1t will not furnish
much forage the first year. and hogs
and cattle and horses should be kept
OIL it. The chickens will however.
ENJOY 1t and repay in abundant eggs.
The second season it will furnish a
soil crop for COWS and hogs during
the summer and hay for winter. In
this connection want to say that the
Canadian peas will furnish all the soil
crop needed the first year. The land
that has been in roots and peas can
be back set in the fall and farmed the
second year the same as if it had bee,
summer fallOwed. This would give
nearly 80 acres the second season fol
barley or macaroni wheat. The 81
acres Of barley and macarom whea,
land. which should be fall plowed
can be used for roots. peas and tnber,
the second season. BY growing