Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-26
DRY FARMING
PRODUCED PRIZE
Winning WHEAT

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. 60
Good dry farming methods pro
duced the wheat which Won for Nash
& Bridgeman of Clyde Park, Mont.
the $4,000 prize for the best five bu'
shells of wheat exhibited at the Mia
neapolis Land Show, according to Jo'
seph p. Nash, who gave a description
of the methods used in raising the
wheat today.
Nash is here with his wife and six
children to claim the $4,000 prize and
take it back to Montana with him. He
called at the office of the exposition
and was given a certified copy Of all
scores and an order for the Big Four
80" gas tractor, -Branting.
ham plows. etc. Then he called on
President Howard Elliott of the
Northern Pacific railway and received
further congratulations. He told Mr..
Elliott how the wheat was raised ald
demonstrated that good dry farming
methods-Or just common sense, will
produce not only good wheat but the
maximum yield per acre.
The five bushes which won the
prize was grown at an altitude of d..
900 feet, where the rainfall does not
exceed II to IS inches. One crop had
been produced on the land before we
seeded it to this Turkey Red wheat,
the seed for which came from the Gal
latin valley" said Nash.
I'VE summer fallowed the land in
1911 by blowing with a mould-board
pillow not less than six inches deep in
the last part of May and first of June.
We dragged it down as sOon as posi-
BILE after blowing, the idea being to
preserve the moisture by dragging
within two days after blowing or
sooner. After any rainfall of conse-
quence the ground was dragged as
o 0 as 1t was possible to get onto it
with a team.
about the first of July we double
disced the field. The last of August
and first week of September, it was
dragged AID then the seed was plant
ed by drilling with a double disc
Kentucky drill which put it down at
least four inches. Forty pounds of
seed was used to the acre and we pre-.
fer less rather than more than this
amount. If the land is strong and
clean it will not require this amount.
with such methods of farming
| moisture is preserved sufficient to
start the seed to terminate immedi.
ately whether there is rain or not.
I'm the spring of 1912 the field
was narrowed Or dragged as soon as
the land was dry enough to permit it.
Once or twice later We dragged It.
This is done to keep a mulch N the
land and keep it from baking or dry
ing out. ..."..
THE soil of our ranch is a dark
limestone clay subsoil. The wheat
was produced without any artificial
means or sub-irrigation, though we
have considerable winter snow which
helps preserve the wheat through the
winter. Wheat in this section sell
dom or lever winter kills and never
heaves out by frost. The character
of the soil is similar to that in all of
central Montana, particularly III the
Judith basin, the Crow Creek, Smith
River and Musselshel valleys. There
are hundreds of acres of similar land
open to homestead eAtry in Montana"
AS a result of his success in rails
! ing and selecting wheat, Mr.. Nash
has been offered a position for the
winter, installing the permanent ex.
habit OF the Northwest Development
League in st. Paul. He has accepted
and will remain in St. Paul until time
to 90 out and produce another crop
of wheat,