Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-03
REPORT OF HOOPLE DEMONSTRATION
FARM FOR 1911


This farm was started in the spring
of 1909 on land that had been broke
M in 1881. This demonstration farm
has been efficiently managed by A.
Hoople. Before being used for the
demonstration farm this land had
produced twenty-five crops OF wheat
crop of oats and crop OF max
The soil on this farm is quite char
acteristic of the western part OF the
Red River valley and is among the
best soils in the state.
According to the soil analysis, made
by the chemical department OF the
station and published in the twenty
first annual report OF the North Ia
kota experiment station, this soil con.
tains an abundance of humus (4.06
per cent?, nitrogen (36 per cent?, and
potash (3S per cent?, but it is some
what deficient comparatively in
PHOSPHORUS acid IA per cent?.
Plot No. / on this farm was in
wheat in 1909, which yielded 1901
bushels per acre; the next year 1t was
in winter rye, which failed to go
through the adverse spring weather
of that year. 1t was then seeded to
barley that practically failed to make
crop owing to the very adverse sea-
son of 1910. Glover seeded with the
barley failed to catch. The land was
fall ploWed to depth of six to seven
inches, it was dragged twice on April
% and was then left until May IL.
when it was disced and narrowed.
The following day it was seeded to
corn Of the Golden Dent variety in
check rows AZ inches apart and with
As kernels per hill. This field was
cultivated with the weeder several
times during June and in July it re-
ceived four civilizations starting on
the 9Th. This corn has made splen-
did growth and it will doubtless ma
ture a good crop of corn as we'll as
give good yield of fodder. This field
will be MANFRED this fall and it will
be in wheat the next two years, which
completes it's rotation once.
Plot No. was also in wheat in
1909 and gave approximately the same
yield as Plot No. /. 1t was in wheat
again in 1910 and gave yield OF
approximately eight bushels per acre
in spite of the fact that this was
the twenty-seventh crop of wheat with
no rest, except for crop of oats and
flax some years previously. =.
In the latter days of August this
field was plowed 81 inches deep, har-
rowed and rolled and seeded to win
ter rye at the rate of one and one
half bushels per acre. This crop
went through the winter of 1901
in good condition. On May 20 clover
and timothy were seeded with a
broadcast seeder at the rate of seven
pounds each per acre. Two days
later this seed was covered by run
ming the weeder over the field
couple of times. This wedding had
very beneficial effect on the rye
as it broke up the soil crust and re-
established the soil mulch. The rye
was a rather thin stand. It did not
do as we'll as it should have done.
The clover and timothy terminated
we'll and made a good growth in the
early part of the summer, but the rye
nearly smothered them cut before it !
was cut. The rye was harvested July |
% and was threshed a month later. |
The yield was fourteen bushels per
acre AS soon as the rye was cut |
the clover and timothy began to i'm
prove. On September the clover
and timothy were making an excell-
ent growth and We're as high as the
stubble. This plot should produce an
excellent crop of hay or clover seed
next year. This plot will be MANFRED
in the fall of 1912 and the following
year it will be put into corn which |
completes the rotation once
Plot No. 3 was MANFRED in the !
spring of 1909 and it was then put
into corn in check rows. This crop
yielded 205O bushels of shelled corn |
and $500 pounds of fodder per acre
that season. The next year it was
in wheat which yielded 1900 bushels
per acre or eleven bushels more than
plot No. 2, due to an application of
manure and the cultivated crop the
year previous. This plot was plowed
about six inches deep, the latter part
Of August, 1910. On April % it was
disced, two hours later it was dragged |
and seeded with Minnesota No. 1863
blue stem wheat at the rate of one
and one-fourth bushels per acre. On
April &c it was rolled with CORFU
gated iron roller. On May 20 clover
and timothy were seeded at the same
rate per acre as on Plot No. 2 in
order to get hay crop next year if
the hay on No. fails. The weeder
was used the following day to cover
the clover seed. hill weeds and re-
establish the soil mulch. This wheat
made an excellent growth all sum-
mer. 1t was affected to quite an
extent with black rust. 1t was har.
vested about the middle of August
and threshed seventeen bushels per
acre. The clover and timothy made
/ good growth in the early part Of
the season, but both were killed out
before harvest time. This plot was
olowed six inches deep. narrowed,
seeded to No. $50 winter rye and
rolled early in September. Next
spring clover will be seeded in the
winter rye in the same manner as
On plot No. 2 this year, and should
hey make good stand this field
will be in clover in 1918, which COM
oletes the rotation
Plot No. 4. This plot was in oats
and peas in 1909 which Welded 921O