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Il BEEF M LAIR Isl q Quantities I.
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II ais.s AsfTeeSnIs5VlSlLL TO NORTH Jak Ota 1m-
presses one with the fact that condi-
i tons IN that state hi ave changed very
materially within { he past few years.
sli.speclally market is the change that
4 las, taken place wi thin the lasttftwo
:easo rls 81 Il he short crops sof i 80 and
4 ne iauth il the, Westerns part 81 the
state during the season sof l9l has
i done more. SO far las appearances 60,
4 to- bring about raj isal changes in
farming method than all the talking
md propaganda work OF the preced-
ing decade.
This remark applies in an especial
IA n to conditions west Of the Missouri
liver. may surprise the reader to
earn that there are more creameries,
|:lnd more dairy cows west Of Bis
I41aIck than there are in the states to
The east OF that point =-@and what is
said OF the dairy industry must in the
! future apply equally to both horses
and cattle. We
SSHWeste1n2N orth Dakota is essentially
= stock country, all natural ditions
avoNEsit,, and the future success Of the
4 di& section as a whole, including not
I :snly North Dakota, but also western
5;;outh i Dakota and M Montana, must de
tpend largely on the degree to which
FARMERS base business on the live stock
Industry: In her: words after all
q that has been said about the grain
! growing possibilities of the northwest,
Il it still remains al tockman,s country
land must, in the JUG gment of Farm,
q Stock and Home SO remain through
Iall future years.
Nota BILE examp pies of crop yields are
cited, it is true, and a reasonably good
system Of farming will do wonders
with a soil naturally rich in plant food
and deficient only in the one element
E:of#rain fall. But experience has shown
radical changes in agriculture come
about very slowly. 4.i!: \
d ~ With stock as the basis of income,
1.-THE dry land farmer is on sure ground
4 from the star He has at his hand
4 the best forage plant the world ever
q has known alta. n. ls5;
In the Judgment of Prof. Hansen OF
\ South Dakota, alfal ia lis destined ia
1 60 to the. Arctic: circle. Prof. Waldron
Of North Dakota, whose experien z
\ with Grimm alfalfa Isl extended, holds
\ prac tically the same view We must
& come to. know how to giYeit foot-hold
I in the soil, but once establish he'd as ii
4 can be all over North Dakota and the
4 entire northWes al Italia is hardy and
4 its future in the crop rotation is as:
4 sured
/. Second only to alfalfa We have fod.
4 der corn +. s. and HIS corn con.
4 test, just closed, apparently centered
4 in Minnesota, but there were entered
4 |ins the contest some twelve Or fifteen
3 North Dakotans who on account Of
Il dronth and other discouragements
abandoned the contest before: the sea
son closed i: Let JUS Omit that, for the
present at least, N orth Dakota lis not
i corn state in the sense OF raising
4 JJ.shelled 8c ON per acre IN this con.
n nection we must also remember that
~ generation ago Meeker county
where MI. Carlsbad raised his 106.S
Il Il bushels of 70. 81 Minnesota shelled
corn on one acre of ground was just
las; much out Of the corn belt as Man.
\ dan or Minot. What ossibility the
d northwest hold s for corn growing IN
The future IS HI, therefore, does
not venture to predict, but already we
4 t59snoW that as an ensilage crop, corn is
Ia success far beyond the North Dako.
Ia border. }5$3
! |@sT he indicat ton sof corn as crop in
Il she dryla rotat ions largely removes
I ISs'sne of the great draWba Of that
i section, tosWit:: the palosswing of the soil.
lin some way, too, possibly through
s. the shading Of the ground So that the
4 sun does not beat down upon tt and
4 bake 81, thereby killing out the BAG
4 5seria, experience shows that the corn
crop il folioued by All better grain
4 crop than when the land mas been put; put
lin bare allow, consequently
corn becomes All Important factor, not
only As d source 81 TODD supply ever even
Iin the driest sof years, but as an
element In the increased small grain