The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-15
VALUE OF HOME
GROWN SEED
DEMONSTRATED ON THE II. "A.
M'cUMBER FARM - SEVENTY
SEVEN BUSHELS CORN TO ACRE
JUDGE HEMMI OF JAMESTOWN
MAKES OBSERVATIONS.

Judge Hemmi of Jamestown wrote
as follows to his home paper:
Editor of The Capital: Combin-
ing business and pleasure, we left
Jamestown for Pettibone, on Septem-
Der 8 via the Pingree Wilton branch
of the N. p. railway.
We were told that the season was
pretty dry in western Stutsman, TAX
ing in the ~Marstonmoor, Pettibone
and Woodwork districts. And yet
the crops generally were good-bet-
ter than last e | think this is
true to better farming, and especially
to the fact that more kinds Of crops
were raised.
We stayed three days on the FL. H.
McCumber farm, which is six miles
southwest from Pettibone. Mr.. Ven
mum of Illinois, who owns LOO acres
Of land near Pingree, and Mr.. Nc
Nary of the Better Farming associa-
ton, came there on the 9th to see
the corn field n other crops on
the McCumber farm.
h ffteen-acre cornfield showed
how important 1t Is to plant home
grown seed. About half was planted
with seed raised at home and the 9TH
er half with the same kind of seed
that was raised in Minnesota, all sown
at same time in the same field
and cultivated the same way. The
corn from the home grown seed was
all ripe enough and fit to cut Septem-
Der 9, while the other seemed to be
about ten days later. :
We husked a wagon box full of
the matured half n estimated there
from that the field will yield about
se~venty-seven bushels per acre IN the
ear, and a very. good quality of corn
at that.
Some neighbors complained last
spring that the gophers ate most of
the seed they planted. Mr.. CcCu,n-
Der said he fixed" the gophers on
his place. 4.r.'- -.
Why" he said, sit is very easy to
fill off the gophers with poison
And the results of his splendid corn
field shows it. He intends to save
about 100 bushels of the earliest ma
tured corn for seed for himself and
neighbors. .,r.E' -
He showed me a ten-acre field Of
feet, and so thick that you couldn't
walk though it.
The garden was immense. There
were turnips nearly as large as your
mead and beets from 10 to 16 inches
long that will yield-well, l must not
make an estimate, for you would
hardly believe it. But, go and see.
1t will surprise you Cabbage, GU
cumbers, carrots and other such gar
den stuff was growing in great abund-
ance. 4 =. -
I was interested in the small
field of alfalfa. Seed was sown last
spring. 1t did not appear to be very
thick but he declared that the stand
is a good one for first trial, and he
expects to "show the Missouriansf
OF Stutsman county next year what
can be- done with alfalfa. He says it
Is very essential to have a good bed"
and to sow the right kind of seed.
Then that cooperative at
Pettibone is going to be Ia great
boon to the farmers in the neighbour
hood if they will improve their dairy
stock and push the enterprise. An
effort is now being made to have a
carload of Holstein heifers shipped
in from South Dakota and sold to
farmers out there. Mr.. McNary said
he could get the carload if farmers
would buy, and the cost would be
from $50 to sos a head, which is re-
markably cheap for pure-bred Hol-
stems. -.
Hunting is good out there. We
bagged twelve chickens and fourteen
ducks in a short time. We saw hun
dreds Of pelicans flying to and from
Chase lake. That lake is closed to ali
hunters by order of Uncle Sam. And
the order is so we'll obeyed that ali
the birds there are very tame. They
seem to know that when they remain
on Chase lake they have nothing 20
fear, and you can almost sprinkle salt
on their tails. Very truly yours,
Very truly yours,
r#~ j.. u, HEMMI.