The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-20
MARsTONMoOR NEWS.
MarStOnmOOr

M~arstOnmOOr items from The
Jamestown Capital: H. McCumber is
planting twenty acres to corn with
seed which he raised last year. This
seed was soft when selected but after
driving it proved almost 100 per cent
termination test. Mr.. McCumber was
in Illinois where any old thing used
to be kept for seed and the results
of selected ears still in the dough"
were a surprise. His eight years
work on the farm evidences lots OF
hard, systematic work, Aside from
farm duties Mr.. McCumber is govern
ment game warden, having charge Of
the Chase Lake game reservation.
Chase lake is very irregular and has
two peninsulas n an island. Every
year thousands of wild game fowls
including pelican and the more COM
mon feathered life nest and raise their
young along the partly wooded min
teen miles Of shore line. Before the
building of the Pingree-Wtlton line,
Chase lake was quite Isolated, out
Mr.. McCumber does not intend to let
progress and settlement destroy bird
life on his reservation. "
f. A. Kelley has his farm work so
nearly completed that he is planning
a little recreation before corn cul-
tivating time.
NICK hlCS SApSCLo " P"I SOAAoPS
on his corn plow.
D. E. Monks Avery a souttt IS
working like a charm.
L.. c. Amick is planting ten acres
of potatoes, using a modern machine
for slicine the seed, which is much
more rapid than hand cutting.
N. o. Challberg may we'll be proud
Of the appearance Of his farm.
Geo. Dahlstrom has one of the top
notch farms in the Pettibone vic1n-
ity - probably because he is a top
notch farmer. His oldest son., Erwin,
II years old, is a. chip Of the old
block for he has evidenced such an
interest in better farming that he
was appointed a delegate to the VAL
ley City Encampment. Mr.. Dahlstrom
practices diversified farming on five
quarters, three of which are in crop.
He milks eleven cows that average
$12 a week in butter fat returns.
Twenty-Five 3 year old steers ready
for shipment represent his 1913 crop
Of beef. A year g the family
visited the old home near Fart
bault, Mimi, and friends in Wisconsin.
Mr.. Dahlstrom studied the type Of
barns; finding the Minnesota barns
to Wisconsin barns where the
late dairy laws made the rebuilt and
newly constructed barns entirely
sanitary and along modern ideas for
feed and arrangement. Mr.. Dahl
strom is now erecting a barn along
the wisconsin dairy plan at a cost
|ofaS2,250% The barn is 38x80 with an
eight foot concrete basement lighted
with thirteen full tWo-sash windows
on each side and full passage length
wise. The superstructure Will have
ID foot posts with a ~hip-roof. This
! coming winter Mr.. Dahlstrom will
make a study of silos. Last year he
raised forty acres of corn, and is now
planting fifty acres, all of which has
been MANFRED, The bulk of this under
his present system lis cut and fed as
fodder which means a large waste of
it's best values. The Dahlstrom place
is c~onspicuously in the class of well
titled farms.
Marstonmoor has some good roads
and some bad roads. We not only
need better farming but better roads.
Considerable attention is being paid
to alfalfa culture. Those who were
deceived into planting Turkestan
alfalfa and found 1T only a low grow
ing pasture plant, are blowing the
fields and planting to Grimm seed
Most of these fields have been examin-
/ ed by Farm Expert McNary of Pin-
gree who found about 30 per cent OF
che plots properly ihoculated. InocuIa-
/ tons ID evidenced by tiny nodules b