Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1914-01-23
GIVES :
PROFITABLE YIELDS
THREE TONS OF GOOD HAY TO
THE ACRE PER SEASON IN
NORTH DAKOTA.
rW0 CUTTINGS A YEAR
Good Success Reported With Grimm
AIfaIfa-inocuIation Very Bene- '
ficiaI-Methods Used in Pre-
pairing the Soil for a
Good Stand.
BY GEO. H. HooPLE, Hoople, N. o

BY GEO. H. HooPLE, HoopIe, N. D
My father and l work his farm to-
gether. Father is manage of the
state demonstration farm for Walsh
county, established on his farm, and
t was the superintendent of the DEM
3nstration farms, Mr.. Porter, who
started US raising alfalfa.
He had us seed the lanes between
plats to alfalfa. There is about three
acres adjoining the demonstration
farm, for which lie obtained Montana
seed for us four years ago. He ship
ped dirt from the agricultural college
TO i%noculate with. We did not get this
field and the lanes very we'll inocu.
lated. There is still a little alfalfa in
lanes, but it does not amount to much
as it is too thin.
We cut the first field once the first
| year getting about m ton per acre
Of alfalfa and weeds. The second year
in two cuttings, we got about three
tons good alfalfa hay per acre. There
was very little snow on it the next
winter and 1t partly winter killed, and
we disked 1t a little too strong in the
spring, I think. 1t did not look very
good so we broke 1t and put it into
potatoes.
The seed was poor, having heated in
the bin. We had bought the seed and
did not know about 1t till the pota'
toes came up. l do not think there
was half a stand but we got two hun
dred bushels of Irish cobblers. This
spring we pat 1t back into Grimm al
falM. The spring being SO cold, we
could not get the weeds started be-
fore it was time to seed alfalfa, and
so it is very weedy. 1t has also been
very dry here all summer. Just about
five inches of rain fell from April list
up to date, but we have clipped weeds
and we believe we have a good catch
Of alfalfa. We will not cut what we
put in this year for hay,-just clip the
weeds.
We put in about seven acres OF
Grimm alfalfa on potato ground this
year. 1t is all good stand. We seeded
eight pounds per acre, and inoculated
with about two hundred pounds OF
dirt per acre, scattered broadcast and
narrowed in.
, We have about two acres of Mon
tana alfalfa seeded OF potato ground
three years ago. 1t is a fine stand
We inoculated with dirt from an alfal
ia field. We cut one ton the first year
; about five tons In two cuttings last
year, and about four tons In two cut
, tings this year.
We disked the field this spring run
ming the disk nearly straight so as moi
to cut the rowns We ran the disl
i. over it four times at one disking. Disk
ing it lightly seems to do 1t lots O.
good in the spring. We can almos
see 1t grow after we disk it. We go
about four tons per acre in two cut
tings this year as dry as it has been
We have about an acre next to thi1
piece which we put in in August las
year. We had potatoes on it. TIL
weeds got the start Of them and w
: plowed them up. The ground wa
moist and we had a little alfalfa see'
so we seeded 1t. Did not inoculat'
$ this piece. We got a good stand, ant
y the weather was cool and rainy al
. fall, SO it got a good start before !
froze. 1t is pretty we'll inoculated thil
I summer. We got about one ton tn
first cutting and one-half ton the sec
ond cutting. We just happened Il
r strike the right kind of weather o
i. l do not think we would have gotten
8 stand Of alfalfa by seeding that late
We have about n acre of Grimm
we drilled in a year ago. We cut !
once this summer for hay and we hop
c to get a seed CROP from 1t this fall.
lNNocULATIoN PROFITABLE