The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1912-10-11
STACKING (. | GRAIN !. ] n. !.
The Qussilsn, ''Dsss Stacking Pay2'
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EXPERIMENTS SHOW BIC PROFIT
Additional Cost For 8taeklng .
Only 1:7 Cents Per "
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]! lsstte,s Bette Farming Association sDeol.l
Grand Forks, October 8. In
view of the experience of farm
ers in North Dakota during the
last few falls, the following
discussion of the question
Does Stacking Pay?' by "a.
ID. Center. the Grand Forks
Better Farming expert, will be
of special interest. Mr.. Center
writes: s.es
Today's successful farmer is
"a very different sort of a farmer
than the successful farmer ora
decade ago.
The successful farmer of to-
day must know something Of
the science Of farming and also
something of the business side
of farming. These must be
combined in a working proper
ton. Either without the COM
plement of the other, is not
sufficient to produce success in
it's most economical, practical,
profitab bic maximum. The fact
that many farmers have made
money and have apparently
been successful without a re-
cognition of the science Of
farming, without the aid Of
systematic plans for field man
agement, and without any
system of, farm accounts does
not signify that they could not
have made more money, with
less labor, with infinitely great
Eer economy; and therefore have
achieved greater success had
they employed these cogniz7
ed aids and necessaries in their
farm operations.
The few who have made a
success without these have
done SO in spite of the handicap
thev worked under, rather
than because of it. Failures in
many instances are directly due
to a lack of farm science, en-
ployment of system, and init
mate knowledge of business
principles.
We question if there is one
per cent of the farmers of North
Dakota who have considered
the stacking Of ]. grain from a
business standpoint. Does it
pay, in hard dollars and cents,
to stack or shall we continue
to thrash from the shock as is
the common practice?
When we experience fall
such as we have had for the
past month, almest every one
will agree that stacked grain
will give better quality seed
than grain that has been sub
ject to the continued rains and
wet weather.
Carefully and accurately
conducted experiments and in.
vestigations in Minnesota, Iowa,
and Illinois show that stacking
grain pays in actual dollars
and cents.
Stacking prevents deterior-
alton, makes grain a better
color, with plumper kernels,
and with a smaller per cent
spoiled or sprouted. e xa t
comparisons Of cost of stack
ing, against threshiug from
the shock are available on
practically every kind Of grain
common in North Dakota.
These compari on the same
field, under similar weather
conditions, an1 with the same
leverage yields show an appar-
Iently additional cost for stack
ling of ~ cents per bushel
yield. This apparently addi-
tional cost is offset, however,
lby the insurance against
bleached sprouted, or bin burnt
grain and BY the i'm mproyement
Eof grad
Imp mprovennent ia grade Of
ilstacked grain is often sufficient
to pay the. entire additional
cost for stack ng and give from
Lone to three cents additional
Iproft per bushel Weld Only
when mac hines and labor are
kqniclly slvaiiab Bile soon after
4 harvest and uniform weathel
l'condi ditions posi- tive, will stand
ling IA the shoe q bes oHset since
lin sfandin0 Iose of srrarl@48iA no