The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-11-08
More Stacking Of
Grain Necessary
Farmers viii Lose Much Grain by
Waiting to Thresh From Shock
Season too Short

SS0SV0 wv J11VAt
Grand Forks, Nov. 4-In view of the
experience of farmers in North Dakota
during the last few falls, the following
discussion of the questions "Does
Stacking Pay?" by o. D. Center, the
Grands Forks county better farming
expert, will be of special interest. Mr..
Center says:
''Today's successful farmer is a very
different sort of farmer than the sue
cessful farmer of decade ago.
..The successful farmer of today
must know something of the science of
farming, and also something of the bus
mess side of farming. These must be
combined in a working proportion.
Either without the compliment of the
other, is not sufficient to produce sue
cess in its most economical, practical,
profitable, maximum. The fact that
many farmers have made money and
have apparently been successful with
out a recognition of the science of
farming, without the aid of systemat-
ic plans for field management, and
without any system of farm accounts
does not signify that they could not
have made more money with less labor,
with infinitely greater economy, and
therefore have achieved greater sue
cess had they employed these recogniz-
ed aids and necessaries in their farm
operations.
1.-The few who have made success
without these have done so in spite of
the handicap they worked under, rather
than because of it. Failures in many
instances are directly due to lack of
farm science, employment of system.
and intimate knowledge of business
principles.
1--WE question if there is one per cent
of the farmers of North Dakota who
have considered the stacking of grain
from a business stand point. Does it
pay, in hard dollars and cents to stack,
or shall we continue to thresh from the
shock as is the common practice?
when we experience a fall such as
we have had for the past month, almost
every one will agree that stacked grain
will give better quality seed than grain
that has been subject to the continued
rains and wet weather.
Carefully and accurately conducted
experiments and Investigations in Min
nesota, Iowa and Illinois show that
stacking grain pays in actual dollars
and cents.
Stacking prevents deterioration
makes grain better color with plump
err kernels and with smaller per cent
spoiled or sprouted. Exact comparisons
of stacking and threshing from the
stack against threshing from the shock
are available on practically every kind
of grain common in North Dakota.
Then comparisons on the same field,
under similar weather conditions, and
with the same average yields show an
apparently additional cost for stacking
of IL cents per bushel yield. This ap-
parent additional cost is Offset, however,
by the insurance against bleached,
sprouted or bin burnt grain and by the
improvement of grade. !.
Improvement in grade of stacked
grain is often sufficient to pay the en-
tire additional cost for stacking and
give from l to cents additional profit
per bushel yield. Only when machines
and labor are quickly available, soon
after harvest, and uniform weather
conditions positive will standing in the
stack be Offset, since in standing loss
of grade is no slight item. Shock
threshing of seed grain is even then
questionable, stacking seed grain in
sures plumper kernels of unimpaired
vigor and strong vitality.
1--WE know North Dakota farmers
who annually stack the grain from
three quarters or more. These men
even in such falls as 1911 and 1912 have
no difficulty in their fall plowing
These men, too, are among the eprogres-
sive farmers, since they combine science
and business to the end that their
bank account increases.
coma much larger number Of farms
OF the state, under prevailing condi-
tions Of climate. availability Of ma
chimes and Of labor, stacking would in
dicate better management.
North Dakota Potatoes
North Dakota potatoes have quality.
They command . premium on the mar
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