The Mankato free press., 1913-03-07
pointed chairman of a committee OF

pointed chairman of a committee OF
! three to solicit the necessary money
to finance the proposition.
4 The committees are given twenty
days to make their reports to the
secretary of the association.
| e. F. Soaring moved that com.
mittee of five farmers, one from
each commissioners district be ap
pointed to act with the Commercial
, club Of Mankato in raising the nee
essary money The districts in their
order will be represented by the
! following men: A. l.. Veigel, Man.
f, kato; John Gerlich, Mankato: Char
les Johnson, Judson; Carl Sworn; |;
j C. Whitney.
The matter of having Blue Earth
: county exhibit at the 1913 Minnesota
state fair was discussed by Presi.
dent Green, and he presented the
! resolution which is given above. 1t
carried
| Professor Andrew Boss, who was
on the program for an address at
the Crop Breeders and Corn Grow
ers' meeting on Crop Rotation was
not present. being confined to his
home by illness. However Clifford
Willis, editor of the Orange Judd
Northwest Farmstead, was present
and was called upon to talk Oh
the subject of Crops and Soil"
The Cooperative Spirit.
! One of those who spoke yesterday
afternoon was J. T. Ingersoll, presi.
dent of the Polk County association,
; who said: I'VE farmers must know
the reasons for doing things. After
attending short course in Crooks.
ton. we organized Pure Seed asso-
! citation. We aim to raise the stand
ard of our grain seed and are plant.
ing the best seed we are able to get.
What is true in grain is true in
stock also. Nothing is too good
for the farmer.
! along social lines we are also
working. We have organizations for
. for sympathizing with me for being
farmer.
GAS Minnesota leads other older
states in advanced farming meth.
,ods. so does the Red river valley
lead other parts of the state. We
welcome the time when we will have
more settlers from your part of the
state"
c. Il. Shumway gave his talk on
Corn Cultivation" There are Il
few things about the cultivation of
corn which we ought to keep in
mind. it is not SO difficult, but it
is important.
! Something which ] wish to say
while I think Of it is that you need
never fear to raise too much seed
corn. There is no fear of overload
ing the market with good seed, or
with good butter.
The tillage of corn begins right.
fully with the beginning of the
preparation of the seed plot We
must loosen the soil for the eXten,
sion of the roots We must pulver.
ize the soil. We must stir and
loosen the soil.
If we want to kill a weed, we
must encourage them to grow, and
then uproot them. A weed is plant
out of place. A cornstalk in a
wheat field is q weed.
| Another thing that we must con.
slider is the temperature OF the soil.
Drainage should be thought Of. Corn
loves warm weather, and in order
to give it a start you must till the
soil to remove the water, SO the soil
will warm up, and the corn will
grow.
1T is better to plow one acre a
Gay and do it right than to pillow
ten acres and not do it right. The
first and second plowingS are of vast
Importance"
Mr.. Shumway then discussed the
various kinds of cultivating plows
and closed his discussion by saying:
! My choice of cultivator is a
riding plow with two shovel beams
Crop Rotation and Soil Fertility.
/ During this afternoon J. II. Shep.
pcrd Of the North Dakota Experiment
Station, Fargo, spoke on Crop Ro.
tation and Soil Fertility" His ad-
dress in part follows:
Agricultural countries must be in
the long run self-supporting. Some of
the smaller ones. like England. Hol-
land. and Germany, borrow or buy
fertility from their exporting neigh.
bors. China and Japan taken to.
sether and America are two great
+, agricultural regions that ] want to
contrast for moment
about five years ago writer
from China said cat the present
time the only practical thing is to
let 100000 people starve and try
to get enough seed grain for the
remainder to plant their spring
crops This indicates how small
the margin Of food supply is in
China.
/ "For more than century the
Chinese have not wasted the fertil.
; ity contained in the sewage from
their cities. In Shanghai in 1908
a contractor purchased about one,
half the sewage OF the city OF Shang'
hal for the year for which he paid
$4,000 in gold besides going to the
expense of collecting it from build
ing to building.
THE Japanese use one and three
fourths tons Of sewage fertilizer per
acre, four and one-half tons total
fertilizer per acre each year.
! Conditions In North Dakota.
North Dakota, I find by consult
ing statistics, has as large an acreage
in wheat and fax as the following
fourteen states: es:-Pennsylyania, New
York, Maryland. Virginia. West Vir
ginia, Maine. Vermont, New Jersey
Delaware, North Carolina, South
| Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Ten
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