Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-17

"Weedy weather whenever at all pos
sible.
Alfalfa this season Is making a Won
drous development and as a direct
result there will be thousands Of new
friends for it all O er the northwest.
1t is estimated by those in a posi-
ton to know, that North Dakota Is
this year growing 100000 acres OF
corn So the corn belt widens and
farm prosperity grows with it
Bronze grass has many warm
friends and possibly as many bitter
enemies, but nevertheless it is fur.
nishing pretty fair %pasturage under
conditions, in many instances, where
few, if any, cultivated grasses Will
endure. -
Some early April sown alfalfa we
have been observing was nipped by a
couple of frosts that were severe
enough to freeze the ground, but the
alfalfa came right along and is nov
a foot high over a large field.
More farmers should do their own
experimenting. There is no reason
on earth why they should not, and
still many will not e. en- test harrow
ing their own grain, but take the word
Of some expert or kicker hundreds
of miles away.
1t has been a splendid season for
newly set trees, and it is pleasing to
know that many thousands have been
put out on Dakota farms this year.
1t should be a regular part of the
early spring work on every farm to
set out some more trees and shrub
berry.
Corn prospects are excellent
throughout the northwest. More good
care has been generally given to the
seed and the stands are far above the
average. The development of the
crop has been remarkably good and
with good cultivation the, promise of
the fields has never been better.
1t isn't too late to SOW alfalfa yet
with present moisture conditions and
if you haven't already done so do it
now . You can't afford to let 1914 go
by without establishing some alfalfa
on your farm, even if it's only a patch
as big as a horse blanket. Get some
growing on your farm and get at
Quainted with it's wonderful virtues.
There has been an abundance OF
rain throughout the DakOtas so far
this season, but don't let any more
soil moisture escape than is absolute
ly necessary, for it may be needed
later. The subsoil over a vast area
was without stored moisture and IS
capable Of holding much more moist
IRE than it now retains. Get water
into the subsoil just as deeply as pos
sible.
"A visit was made to a 25-acre field
of white sweet clover on June Ain
North Dakota. The plants were then
nearly three feet high and very thick
on the ground. The roots were COW
cred with great lunches of nodules
and the whole field was a picture~o of
plant thriftiness. 1t will make a
splendid yield of hay for the first cut
ting and the second growth will be
left for seed. It is the only large
field of sweet clo:er in the locality
and neighboring farmers are watching
the results with much interest.
AS experiences progresses more and
more do we not find that incubation
with alfalfa at seeding time is desir-
able, to say the least? 1t is so easy
and inexpensive a matter that there
seems little excuse for not providing
it. The glue method is the easiest
and simplest way to apply inoculated
soil and is certain to carry the bac-
terra to every seed. Simply moisten
the seed with sticky water made by
dissolving a little common furniture
glue in it and stir in the seed, a small
quantity of fine, dry inoculated SOIL,
and the work is don.-Dakota Farm
er.