The Dickinson press., 1911-12-16
FARMING METHODS TALKED
At STATE CONVENTION
Awards of Prizes for Dickinson MdWnte Held Conunc
tion with D. Dry Farming Congress Stark County Organi
cation Important Discussion Corn, Flax and Alfalfa
Raising, Fruit and Tree Planting is Discussed

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full text Of which appeared in the
PRESS last week. This address, was
replete with good advice and the presi-
dent then, and whenever possible
throughout the sessions, advised the
farmers to stick to what they had and
du one thing we'll rather than ten things
indifferently. The merchant who places
his advertising, judiclously, reaps the
desired reward. So with farm land ad-
vertising. Mr.. Zimmerman cited the
great increase in land values in
certain parts of Montana by simply let
ting thu. world know what was there Land.
will be eventually scarcer and higher.
stick to what you have and farm we'll
what you do farm
W. C. PALMER ON CORN GROWING
Prof. Palmer said: The Indians
grew corn and he'd North Dakota in the
corn belt. White men came and be-
tween wheat and free range forgot the
corn. Now we are getting the state
back where she belongs.
The school children's corn growing
contests have proved that corn can be
grown proftably anywhere in the state.
even along the Canadian border, and
without proper machinery.
Seed is important. An order placed
with some eastern house will probably
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suited to our climate and the corn will
keep on growing when it should be
ripening. Use home grown seed and
select the best from year to year for
planting until you have corn that has
the habit of ripenine in short season.
We must grow our own seed corn and
there is splendid business opening for
the man who will grow it to sell. If seed
from other states is worth So per bushel.
seed grown right here at Dickinson is
worth $40 and so, 600 bushels of good
seed should always find a ready local
market.
Corn is 6ve-profit crop, where wheat
dives but one, if it gives any. Profit
is what we are all after. First there is
the crop itself worth from year to year
as much as grain crop. Second it
yields great profit in preparing the
ground for Drain. Grain after corn is
more sure and gives far better yield
both the first and second year. The
third profit is in its manufacture into
beef, pork, milk, cream, cheese, butter,
eggs, etc. No place in the world is
better for stock than this West Missouri
country and not even the Ohio and In
diana corn excels our own in food
value. Fifteen years ago Minnesota
centered her attention upon butter.
Soon she began taking prizes and now
has the habit of taking first prizes
wherever butter is shown. whether at
home, at a national exhibition or beyond
the seas. You have even better con-
ditions here and predict that if you
give dairying the attention Minnesota
farmers do, the prizes will begin to trav-
ell westward. The fourth corn profit is
the manure. Take care of it and put it
back in the corn land when raising
corn. The following year the wheat yield
will be increased at least four bushels
per acre, the next year two or three and
the third year one or two, making in all
some eight bushels per acre. or the cost
of growing wheat crop extra from one
spread of manure. The fifth profit l
note is a steady income. If you depend
upon wheat you promise your merchants
to pay when you thresh and sometimes
this time does not come for two or three
years. Your merchants will carry you
but they will give you better prices
for cash and you will be more careful
what and how much you buy. Corn
gives you an income the year around in
butter. eggs. milk, poultry, etc.
Have we profit in wheat? There is no
profit unless we brace it up with King
Corn. We cannot depend upon wheat. If
rains come at the right time and no hot
winds blast it, all right. But it gets dis
couraeed very easily and lies down and
says II can't" Corn plugs along and
does something no matter what the
weather.
SLOS ARE NEEDED.
i Prof. Waldron led q short discussion
on silos. Our high altitude with the
Likelihood of early frosts to injure the
corn leaves, makes the silo almost
as much Of necessity as means Of
saving the corn crop as it is..a necessity
in brineing best results in dairyins
by giving stock mixed diet and green
food the year through. Dairy Commits.
lsiouer Flint said there were already