Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-24
Valuable Pointers
for Harvest Season

for Harvest Season
NOW that the click of the harvester
is heard throughout the country, we
are all aware that the real busy sea
son of the year is at hand When
the crops are being harvested the
teams and hands are all busy reaping
the golden grain. The thing that the
farmer wants at this time is efficiency
in the handling of the crop, and to
obtain the greatest efficiency from
the teams it is necessary to bear In
mind That when horse works hard
all day long with only short time
for noon and no chance for a cool
drink of water during the long after
noon he can not work to the best ad.
vantage. A good plan to use in har-
vestfug to Increase the efficiency of
the horses is to have barrel Of wa.
ter right with you out in the field and
at some time during the afternoon
give the horses a pail or so of nice
cool water. You know how it helps
you. 1t will do the same thing for
the faithful horse 10 have cool re.
freshing drink OF water when the
thermometer registers quite high in
the shade and hardly a breeze stir.
ring.
A large share of the grain of the
county will not be stacked this sea.
son. Perhaps the larger part of the
crop df the county will be shock
threshed and for this reason it be
comes quite necessary to have some
of the grain stand out in shocks fol
quite long time, and this calls fol
all TIE more care in shocking the
grain You have seen fields. THAT have
stood in the shock for long time
and come through all right, whiie
other fields have suffered to greater
extent The difference, no doubt, il
in the way the shocks were put up
There is always danger OF grain be
coming over ripe and Smelling out ii
the harvesting, and there is also the
further danger OF having the grair
lodge. Therefore it is not good farm
practise to delay harvesting unit
1.-the grain is entirely ripe. After the
grain is cut there is considerable
transfer Of material from the straw
to the grain, II the grain is promptly
shocked and capped.
Whether the grain be threshed iron
the shock or from the stack !if is
wise to remeJnbeT that a good bis
straw stack in the barn yard comes
in very handy during the long wintel
months, not only for the feed and ssne
ter iii furnishes sblt the trambins
of the cattle help 10 work over the
straw into good barn yard manure
and gSod barn yard manure is Some
thing that most of our farms nee6
and need badly.
If the factories run by trusts and
combines wasted as much of then
byproducts as the farmer does the.
would soon go out OF business. VIZ
refer to the annual waste of thous
ands of tons of straw that go up il
smoke every fall as soon as the thresf
ing is done. 1t is a waste to burn this
straw. 1t lis even more tiBan waste
because fsur lands need "a lot more
organic matter than they are getting
and the system of farming that takes
everything away from the land and
gives nothing in return can not last
and be a permanent system of farm.
ing, and your children, and your
children's children viii suffer for the
wasteful system that some of us are
practising on our lands, namely that
of buRning the straw piles that should
ibe returned to rep1enish the Sdecreas-
ing supply Of organic matter in our
soils
Silos increase the carrying capacity
of the farm as far as live stock is
conc erned. Nssrly 40 per cent of
the feeding valne of the corn crop
is in the stalks, Why not utilize
nearly all OF this by placing the corn
crop in silo. siip clubs form sort
of a center for a local organization
that might come to mean whole lot
for a community as the years go by.
The acre yield corn contest will be
decided on the actual yield per acre
of sound corn. Frequent shallow cul-
tiyation Will make a big difference in
the yield, at least 1t has done SO in
the years that are rast and we don't
think this year Is an exception Al
W. Palm. Superintendent OF Better
Farming Association.
Hogs Bring Good
Price onI ,ocaI Market