The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-02-28
SOME FARM FACTS
Additional Notes aud Comment Ol
Beitsr Farming MeeNafs
ABSTRACTS OF the ADDRESSES
Miss Farnsworth Made Strong
P)oa For improvements In
Farm Homes

As promised in last weeks
issue we present herewith brief
abstracts of several of the ad-
dresses made at the Better
Farming meeting held here on
Thursday of last week:
Wied on Dairyine
Mr.. Wied said that the dairy
cow should properly be con-
sidered part of the crop rota-
ton plan. She is needed to
consume roughage and turn it
into ready money. He con-
trasted conditions now with a
rush of work in the spring and
fall with the conditions under
dairying, which more nearly
equalizes work the year around
and brings income for every
week in the year. He admitted
that in exceptional years grain
farming might show bigger in
come but one year with another
dairying brought a better in
come. Under the single crop
system when you market 81, 600
worth of grain you dispose of
of about $500 worth of the fer
tility of the soil. With the
dairy COW as a manufacturing
plant you keep the fertility on
the farm and market the fin
ished product. He favored the
purely dairy breeds and advis-
ed care in keeping the herd up
to standard. A poor COW is one
of the worst investments. Feed
on the eide when pastures run
low. Underfeeding is bad.
Dairy aud si1o 60 hand in hand.
1t is important to figure out
suitable ration, keeping the
question of profit always in
view. Start small and grow
into the business. Have cows
come fresh in the fall. Prices
of butter are then higher. Silo
keeps production up in the
winter and when green pasture
comes you have practically
fresh cows again. Besides fall
calves do much better than
spring calves. They get better
care in the barn. Feeding is
important. Feed calves for
growth and not to put on fat.
| Johnson Talks on Alfalfa
| NJ. e. johnson, reviewing
results of one years expert
rnents with alfalfa. said there
is no crop of more importance
to this section than alfalfa. In
the Red River Valley they are
growing clover successfully but
alfalfa will do better here. It is
essentially dry land plant and
will do very we'll here. Success
in alfalfa growing hinges on
two things, the proper prepara-
ton of the soil and the careful
selection of seed. With re-
gard to the latter Grimm is
certainly the best but it is hard
to obtain and is very expen-
sive. Northern Montana grown
seed comes next and will give
good results.
Summer titled land is best.
Next comes corn ground. Land
must be clean and precautions
should be taken to keep off the
weeds that blow. Had good
results last year on piece of
breaking.
| Sow about Ave pounds of seed
to the acre using drill. Mix
seed with corn meal or cracked
wheat. Sometimes soil is used
to mix with the seed. especial
|ly if it IS inOculated soil and
this is good if the sun has been
kept of the soil used, otherwise
the valuable germs will be
killed. Main objection to u.s.
ing soii 10 that it is a little hard
on the drill.
Good results can be obtained
with Eve plants to the square
yard and a. i've pounds Of seed
to the acre means about 24O
tseeds to the square yard il VI i'll
be seen that there is plenty Of
:margin allowed. Don't drill
toO deep, never more than an
inch and leave the ground az
arm a. possible.
~ to: inoculation. The in
trOdoction of comrnercial nitro
een was tried on sixteen nelds