Morris tribune., 1914-02-27
Practical Farmers Talk to
Farmers.
Continued from preceding page

county soil about fifteen years ago,
I made up my mind that this county
had an excellent corn soil. notice
you have soil here which is adapted
t corn because it is loose and mellow
and does not bake, and you can cul-
tivate it most any time whether 1t
happens to be rainy bad season or
not.
My first crop of corn was q acres
which 1 believe was the best crop l
ever raised. 1t was in the dry seas
on of 1900. The corn was planted in
hills and very thick. No rain fell un-
till the third of July and the corn had
come up about s inches. However.
cultivation was going on all the time
lust as if the corn had been growing
right and as though there were weeds,
of which there were none, Of course,
as it was too dry After this rain
the corn grew excellently and the
amount of corn l secured was about
80 bushels to the acre, which was a
pretty good crop for IA years ago.
I want to compare this with crop
of corn grown in 1918 under my obser-
walton. The man had 20 acres. A
year ago last fall he plowed a strip
across the field about two inches In
depth and 8 rods wide. In the winter
he hauled A loads of manure on what
was not plowed in the center OF his
field. Then in the spring he was out
with two more loads in a. wagon box
He had no manure spreader In abous
a week or ten days the balance OF
this ground was plowed. Then with
his drag, he went around in a. circle
and dragged the fall and spring plow-
ing at one time. He then took his
planter and planted the corn, about
the second day of May at cold time
consequently the corn did not come up
RAPIDLY. Later about 4 to stalks
to the square rod was all that came
up. He dragged the corn after pillow
ing. so that he could not blank Guilt
vate. The wild oats Were six inches
high, and corn too, what there was
of it. When he came to market this
corn. he picked all in three boxes. He
had picked nubbins in the first place.
Now if we want to raise good aV-
erage crops of corn in Stevens County
we must all get to work and raise It..
You have all heard about testing your
seed corn and know how it is done and
you should do it. We. must get rid
of the nubbin farmers in Stevens
county who are lowering the average
yield of corn in this county. Some
men are raising from so to 60 and eV-
en- 70 bushels to the acre. we
could do this but we won't set
to business and do what we know
is right in order to get a good crop.
The difficulty is that we don't raise
corn in a scientific manner, we do
not do as good as we can We must
apply what we have learned and above
all eliminate the nubbin. l think
we will then be able to raise the av-
erage for Stevens county to so bush
els per acre and not % bushels There
is no reason why we cannot do this
and VIE should all try our best.
COWS FOR STEVENS COUNTY.
F. L. Chesterfield
The COW industry in Stevens county
until recently has been very much neg
lected and I believe that we can make
a lot of improvements if we just go
after it. We have not as many good
COWS in this county as we ought to
have, and there are a good many cows
in this county that are not worth hav-
ing, especially when it comes to dair-
ying. The COWS kept on most of the
farms are neither dairy COWS
nor are they the real beef type
believe that the farmer when he. goes
into the dairying or beef, ought to
sell his stock and get away from the
one and go into the other. Do no get
them mixed up. My little experience
has shown me that a beef COW is not
a dairy COW and a dairy COW cannot
be beef cow
About four years ago I started to
milk COWS and MIXED that year about
% COWS. l sold my cream to the sta
tions at that time and l realized out
of those % COWS something like $500
for the whole year The next year
l MIXED Is cows, and the results
were that I sold the butterfat the
same as 1 did before and realized
from the cows, $3.50. Then l test
ed out my herd and sold off 10 COWS
that winter and replaced them with
six others, leaving me Is cows. The
next year from the Is COWS after We
built the creamery received from
the creamery for butt9rfat something
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