The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-08-25
NORTH DAKOTA GROWN CORN
Come q Gssentlal Points Are 7her;
oush Curing Of 9ssd, 9arsy
Planting and Cultivation.

Planting ana C0sSsvaSSoM I'd |
Corn Il wonderful adaptive and has
shown this quality to : marked degree
n this state Dean shepperd states
that corn, II frozen back here. VIII
readily grow again, as a dry cold does
less harm than cold and wet, while
further south this is not the case. In
fact, it will stand to be frozen back
q second and even third time. He
also states that cool nights do not
seem to have any backward effect on !
the corn, but he thinks the corn plant
makes more growth in the twenty-fow
hours here than in the so-called corn
belt. as the hours of sunshine are
longer and there is less cloudy wealth
or to interfere with the suns work.
So we must learn corn anew In North
Dakota, as Indiana, Illinois, or Iowa
methods will not do here. Some of
the points to keep in mind. however.
are: Thorough curing of the seed
corn, early planting and shallow cul-
tivation.
The value of the corn crop is very
forcibly set forth in the following |
statements of Senator Greeley OF
South Dakota In the Farmers Insti-
tute Annual: 80 Wv 49,
. mot long ago while looking over
some wheat fields northwest Of
.Whapeton, we came across one 80 dis |
tinctly better and cleaner than any
adjoining field, that we strongly sus-
pected corn had been grown there the
year before. The owner was not at
home and one hired man whom we in
terviewed said he had been there two
years, and no corn had been grown
there during that time We hunted
up. another man working further from
the road. but he made the same a.
sertion, but when he insisted that
corn alone could get the soil to the
fine, clean condition It was In. this
hast man finally said: oh, yes. ] r.
call now that corn stalks troubled my
drill little when I was seeding that
deld the first year was here"
Further On was another held Of 100 i,
acres or 90 getting the Same dose Of
clean, wellhandled corn. This man
knew what he WAS doing and judging
from the clean, splendid crops follow
ing this rotation, could also web A.
ford to throw his corn away and still
be ahead. .t"". -
Over in Manitoba the past fall we
talked with wheat growers who said
and seemed to mean It that they
would readily value their Canada land
- high again II it were, possible for
them to mature crop Of good corn
on It, and still all too many Of our
farmers who are in a comparatively
safe corn country are growing no
more corn than these same far North |
Canadian farmers.
A growing corn field IL forest for
the time and furnishes to the soil
the air around it, forest conditions. In !
passing to the leeward of corn folds
ct such times one will readily detect
q GOODNESS similar to that felt on the
northeast side Of lake or forrest
when the hot or warm wind 10 from
the south or southwest. .-H2t2 @".0
But some will say that this IL not
corn country. From considerable e.
perience In the northern part Of South
Dakota and wide observation IN this
state wo do not hesitate to say that
these people are mistaken; and we
sometimes think we have more per-
feet all around corn country than
some of the so-called corn-belt Sec
tons. '." "o =+.s" s17s,.as srs7,-rta.s .s'sss
NV ~ &cI
as much richer than the coarser,
taller varieties of the south az our ma
tive grasses are richer than the
coarser, more watery grasses Of the
south and east. No one who has fed
out our corn and corn fodder and wild
hay, who has ever tried to feed Mis-.
souri, fodder and wild hay, will ques-
ton this for moment. Again. owing
largely to our longer sunshine days.
and to the quicker maturing caused
by northern sun and climate, we ma
ture corn In much less time from
planting, and can grow more stocks in
the hill than can be grown farther
south where the stalks are much
taller but Of less value, thus giving
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grown right, as much or more corn
though smaller ears. One good stalk
b hill Ia enough in southern Mis-
souri,, two in southern Iowa, three in
most of South Dakota, and four If not
i've In North Dakota, This, at least,
IL our experience and observation,
and there is much better fodder ana
as much or more corn in the three or
four smaller North Dakota ears than
In the one or even two Missouri ears.
It is claimed that three small, say
eight-ounce ears. on q hill, II the corn
Is planted as closely as It can be in
the north, and usually, 1t, will yield
Is bushels to the acre. We have. never
figured this out, but we do know that
It would take pretty big one-ear.to-
the-hill, four feet apart, to do this, and
that their corn grows very tail and
rank, the stalk have to be few and far
apart or they will shade the soil too
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