The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-08
HOW THE farmer CAN
BUILD HIS own S|L0


amount of water in the soil for the
alfalfa. The following spring keep
the land free from weeds with either
the Acme, peg tooth, or disc harrows.
Do not plow as compact seed bed
is very essential to alfalfa.
Seed northern grown alfalfa seed
which shows strong terminating pow
er and which is entirely free from
dodder. Seed 1t at the rate Of s to
10 pounds per aclc betM cen the LIST
and 18th of June. Inoculate by seed
in screened soil from an old alfalfa
field with the seed. Seed the same
depth as fax. Do not seed with a
nurse crop. Do not cut the alfalfa
or allow it to be pastured the first
season. If you get a good stand new
er cut or pasture it any season after
September 1st. After the second
year disc every spring.
Business Meetln0 F1ejo.
A business meeting of tho asso-
Grafton was held today. All outstand-
ing bills we're paid and there remains
in the treasury $50 The bills con-
sisted of the transportation OF the
speakers, the noon day luncheons for
500 farmers, the printing, cost of the
opera house, besides the Associated
Charities were made q donation Of
$40.
The Present and Future.
Minot has learned that it is quite
an easy matter to give a noon day
luncheon to farmers attending q COM
mon institute. but it is physical
tmpossibiity to feed all the guests
of the Mouse River Loop Farmers
Association at a given point. Sill
the crowds were handled we'll, con-
sidering the size Of them, and every
body was happy. We didn't hear a
farmer knock the convention and we
heard hundreds of them praise every
feature of it.
]. M. Devine, the secretary, o.
M. Champlin, the President and 9TH
ers worked untiring for the success
credit. The old officers including J.
S. Flatland, treasurer, were re-elec-
ted.
Prof. Shaw, who has attended more
than any other person in
the state, says that without exception
the crowd attending the convention
this week was the largest he ever
spoke to in the state, and he has
been talking to North Dakota farmers
for ten years.
The change in the program for the
1913 convention will add largely to
it's practical value. There will be =
period for those interested partic-
ularly in stock, one for dairying, one
for the mothers and daughters. Do.
nestle Science department. Expert
speakers will be secured to talk to
these three separate divisions while
a fourth program will be prepared
for general meeting afternoon and
evenings. Instead Of two days
session, the convention will last three
days.
The interest displayed on the part
of these attending was exceedingly
marked. and we predict that by rea-
son of one meeting alone, that before
the year 1912 will have passed, corn
and alfalfa will be found growing on
almost every farm, and the silo will
be noticeable addition to the farm
buildings of this section. Mich cows
will be a definite factor in the earn
ing capacity of every farm, and
cream checks worth their face value
in any bank, will be a common me-
dunn Of exchange. Men can talk un-
til they are hoarse about 800 land
but given the conditions as herein
discussed, land will rapidly approach
the 500 mark since it is a universally
accepted fact that where alfalfa,
corn, the milch COW and the silo go
hand IN hand, there is to be found
the 500 land.
The Mouse River Loop Farmers
Association is going to be a great
factor in bringing about more up-to-
date farming and is corresponding re-
suits. It's to be the gathering point