The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-29
Declares Northern Minnesota is Es-
pecially Adapted to Successful
Raising Of Hay Crops.
$4,000 PAID IN PARK RAPIDS
Farmers There Stumble Onto Idea
Of Threshing Timothy and Pick
Up $500 to $500.

According to A. f. Woods, dean
and director Of the department of
agriculture of the University of Min
nesota, the state legislature made a
profitable investment last winter
when it voted free seed to the SET
tiers of the fire zone of Beltrami and
adjoining counties.
J. j. Opsahl, of this city, who in
cidentally has a letter from w. M.
Iaber, president of the First Nation
al Bank of Park Rapids, showing
how farmers have picked up from
$500 to $500 off timothy seed, wrote
to Dean Woods to know what the
results of sowing the burned over
lands had been.
In reply Dean Woods said:
Yields Of IL Tons Result.
"Visits to the territory in which
seed was sown indicates that the re-
suits are very satisfactory. In some
cases one and one-half to two tons of
hay have been cut this year from
seed sown last spring. Numerous
good stands are reported, and it looks
as though the legislature had made
profitable investment in the distri-
button of grass seed in northern
Minnesota.
Advises Sowing of Seed
THAT part of the state is so we'll
adapted to the growth of timothy
and clovers that we believe that no
opportunity should be lost to estab-
llsh grass seed wherever possible
Early spring and late fall seedlings
or land that has been recently
burned over promises to be good
policy. Weeds can be kept out in
this way and a profitable forage crop
provided which will add greatly to
the producing powers of this part of
the state. There is no doubt but
the seed crop can be made quite a
factor in many parts IF the country,
but the influence of the growth of
grass on the production Of live
stock, especially dairy COWS, would
be quite as great consideration.
81 am aware of the fact that much
grass seed was grown in the vicin-
ity of Park Rapids this year and
that very encouraging prices were
received for the crop. All of north
ern Minnesota is looked upon as an
especially favorable place for the
seed, and there is no doubt but the
region will become one of the lead
ing seed centers in the near future.
Glover on Burned Over Land.
1--WE believe in the use of clover on
the burned over lands and I think
that it should be sown wherever pos
sible On much of the land in north
ern Minnesota alsike clover would
be preferable to the red. This var
iety furnishes only one crop per
year, but it stays in the land more
permanently and makes even better
forage than the common red clover.
For seed growing purposes the red
clover will probably give larger re-
turns, and will meet with more pop
ular favor"
$4,000 for Seed at Park Rapids.
In his letter to Mr.. Opsahl, the
Park Rapids banker, Mr.. Taber, has
this to say:
"Replying to your letter of Dec.
18th, will say that the statements
that l made you at st. Cloud con-
corning the timothy seed raised in
this vicinity were about as follows:
There has been somewhere between
$4,000 and $4,000 paid out for
timothy seed at this point this sea-
son.
"W. S. Flanagan hauled. in one
load with four horses for which he
realized $1,115. He afterwards found
that he had some II 1-2 tons Of tim
othy that he had cut for hay in his
barn and noticed that it was well
filled with seed and decided to thresh
it. From this II 1-2 tons he thresh-
ed $500 pounds which he sold for