Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-05-01
WOMAN RUNS
FINE FARM
Runs a Thousand-Acre Place In
North Dakota, the Admi-
ration of Experts.
PRIDE OF DEVILS LAKE
eaart Was Not Easy, But Her Motto
10, "Dolna, Not Talking" and Thus
She sueeeeds-she Commenced by
Planting Trees.


Planting Trees.
DEVILS Lake, N. D.-Doing, not talk
ing, Is the motto of Mrs. Clarke W..
Kelley's life, and that is why she owns
Q farm that is the pride of DEVILS
Lake and the admiration of agricultur-
nj experts. That is also why Mrs.
Kelley was honored at the Information
al Dry Farming Congress held at Tul-
ga, Oklahoma, by election to the vice
presidency of the woman's auxiliary
and to the presidency of the section
for woman who manage their own
farms.
twenty-five years ago many home
steaders abandoned their claims In
North Dakota and returned to the
East. 1t was during the dry years"
when pioneer life seemed very hard
and many were unable to withstand
the pleadings of the folks back home"
who kept urging them to leave their
newly acquired land and return to
"civilization." Then followed period
of prosperity when the land was ex-
plotted and robbed of its fertility.
Even the rich North Dakota soil wore
out under such abuse and the crop
yield began to fall off. 1t was about
this time that Mrs. Kelley took up the
serious study of agriculture in which
she had long been interested. Kelley
gave her full control over his 1000
acre farm.
ut was not very cheerful looking
place then" said Mrs. Kelley. There
were only three trees-cottonwoods,
believe-on it, but / went quietly to
work, paying no attention to those
who laughed at me. l have noticed,
too, by the way, that some of the same
people who laughed have since adopt
ed some of the methods which they
then thought were joke. The farm
was divided into acreage plots, and a
system of rotation adopted. / en-
ployed the methods advocated by the
best agriculturists except when
found by experimenting some other
was better suited to my own con-
ditions.
I'VE commenced at once to plant
trees. The first year we only bought
1000 or 1900, but these did so well
that we were encouraged to plant
more next year, and we kept on plant
ing until our farm looks Like large
grove In the last twelve years we
have planted $4,000 trees, most OF
which are living and some are forty
feet tall. We expect to have a row on
the north field line Of every plot and
plant row every year. These bank
the snow in winter, conserving the
moisture for the land and protect the
fields from the hot winds in summer
"This year we raised alfalfa, corn.
wheat, barley, oats and buckwheat.
Our buckwheat was sold for seed, but
the Devils Lake mill informed us that
they would take all we had to sell We
raise Afe wheat, which has been i'm
proved and graded up for fourteen
years, and we will keep on working
with it. We consider fife the heaviest
yielding wheat. Our wheat took sec.
ond prize at the pure seed show In
Fargo last year, first prize at the corr
and clover show in Grand Forks and
the first prize of the mid-winter fair
in DEVILS Lake. DR.. Ladd of the Far
go Agricultural College, has pro
nounced it very fine milling wheat. We
sell all we produce for seed.
"Our barley was originally secured
from Prof. Moore of Wisconsin, who
has specialized in barley for ter
years. 1t is the Oberbucker. We feed
ground barley to the hogs when fat
tening them for market and mixture
of ground barley and oats to the cat
tie. What is not used in this way if
sold"
"Alfalfa is not, however, a good for
age crop; 1t bloats the cattle. and Il
the crowns of the plants are eaten by
the stock this kills the alfalfa" said
Mrs. Kelley. "As forage crop,
would recommend timothy and clover
which are good in the rotation scheme
In that they supply certain elements tc
the soil. In our pasture plots for hogs
we plant winter rye in the fall and bar
ley, rape and Canadian peas in the
spring By turning the hogs from one
field to another they are kept in greer
pasture. We also have 200 acres OF
bluegrass pasture.
Maturity is the only difficulty il
corn raising in North Dakota. What
we want is corn that will mature in {
short season. We have always RAISED
some corn, and now grow two varie
ties Squaw corn was the first We
raised, and we secured native growI
seed from the Indians. The objection
to this was that it grew too low. b.
q process of selection, that is, choos
ing for seed the ears farthest from tn,
ground, we have developed corn tha
grows five feet tall, with ears eight
cen inches from the ground. We us,
1t cut green with grain binder, 70
fodder for the hogs and it is also goo,
ensilage. We were not entirely salts
fed with this corn, however, as it re
quired too much work in harvestin
FOR what 1t produced,
0In looking around for another hin