The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-05

IN TINS country. The single crop man
gets woefully rich and extravag CANT
from q single crop or hopelesslv in
debt from a crop failure either of
which Is likely to cause an early mi
grafton. Single cropping brings the
banana farm and scant settlement
group of hired help and distant
nelghbors. The small farm which In
farm home, brings the productive
ness and prosperity, which every COM
munlty wants and better still causes
premanency in each.
Mixed farming gives a longer tenure
OF service for the hired help and thus
enables the farmer to secure a better
class of hired men and women. n
rids the community Of the floating
careless hobo help and brings in their
stead class of men who think while
they work and that alone will double
their efficiency in producing results, in
term of years.
Ihe milk cows with their monthly
creamery checks constitute an excel
lent means Of keeping the grocery bill
paid up, bunch of hogs which have
run in the alfalfa field and largely
Wintered on the alfalfa leaves gather
ed up where the hay thrown from the
NOW shattered them off bring a nice
sum of money on the market in these
days, besides providing the family
table with pork and lard. A flock of
sheep will CLEAN a lot of their living
on a dry land farm and there is some
thing in the old proverb which saws:
"a sheep never dies in debt to its
owner" and it is "the animal with the
golden hoof".
Raise Few Colts.
1t is far better to carry an extra
mare or two and to raise a few colts
so that the older horses can be sold
off before they begin to run down in
value and to have strong young beasts
in the harness than to be paying out
money for new team occasionally
and to be working crippled old stock
or selling them for pittance.
A good active flock of business hens
Will mt in with any dry land farmers
conditions and will add greatly to the
balance on the right side of his ledger,
If he will use judgment in handling
them.
Cropping Systems.
Whether a field shall be in small
grain each alternate year, two years
in five or three years in FIVE cannot be
told without knowing the farm, the
family residing on the farm, and the
market conditions. Following are some
dry farm cropping systems which are
giving good results in North Dakota:
Corn; corn; fife wheat
Fife wheat; flax; barley Glover with |
barley-manured).
Peas and oats-manured; durum |
wheat [clover); clover.
Durum wheat; clover; flax.
Oats; aoats and barley; corn.
In all cases 1T Is understood. of |
course, that where any system of crop |
ping is adopted, it must be subject to |
change, as the failure of grass crop |
to make catch or a winter grain to
come through right, in a given season. |
necessitates a change in the system of |
cropping.
Few farms are run to the best adj !
vantage which do not have two or more !
systems of cropping on them. The |
small fields near the buildings can be !
cropped to much better advantage by |
having them planned to suit the live
stock needs than upon basis of pro- |
ducing largely marketable crops.
On the other hand it is wasteful to
put them into system SO permanent
as not to take advantage of the heavier .
supply OF manure and humus which the !
live stock add to the soil so regularly /
The potato patch should be changed
about through some minor rotation for
example, so that scabby potatoes will !
not be the rule and SO thar the potato !
crop can have advantage of the manure /
where pasture crops have been fed Off /
and where leguminous crops have been
grown.
Grass and forage crops are in my |
opinion prime necessities. Al system |
should be devised which will produce
maximum crops when the field is sown.
as the fixed charges against a field are
very little increased for heavy crop
over those for an average crop and the
net returns may be doubled.