The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-01-08
! Winter Care of Farm Horse:

! Winter Care of Farm Horse:
| Outline: Practically no work for
farm horse in winter. Must be carried
through economically and in good con-
dition. Exercise necessary-how pro-
vided. Winter feeding. Kinds and
amounts Of feed. Attention to feet
Details. What to avoid.
| References: Farmers Bulletins No.
I22, ITO.
Barnyard Manure:
| Outline: Care of manure. Loss
thru weathering Fresh and rotted.
Efficiency of applying fresh manure.
How applied. How often to apply.
Why best to apply before corn. Ell
fleets and value of manure.
| References: Farmers Bulletin No.
1872. North Dakota Bulletins No. SO,
100. Neighborhood experience
/ Presentation of important current
events of local, state national and
world Importance.
4 Grimm's Alfalfa is Winter Proof.
Helena, Mont, Dec. 29.-There is an
interesting story and a truthful one
about the history of Grinlm's alfalfa.
In 1857 German farmer and his wife
left the Old Country and went to Min
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with them small bag of alfalfa seed
waited ground.
The alfalfa grew well during the
summer and fall, but on examining the
lcrop Or what was left Of it the fol
lowing spring it was found to have
winter killed, all but few stalks.
Those few stalks were permitted to
go to seed, the pods were gathered
and shelled out by hand. The seed was
sown the following year when it was
4 found much larger percentage of it
Iwithstood the winter.
Mr.. Grimm and his wife kept up
this procedure for ten years, when it
was found they had a crop Of alfalfa
which did not winter kill. This alfal-
ia was called by the neighborhood
farmers, Grimm, after the name of
the German, and Everlasting, because
it will not winter kill.
Several years ago w. NJ. Williams,
owner of the Lookout ranch near Har-
LENT in Blaine county, (Mont.) secur-
ed some of this seed directly from the
Grimm family, and planted it on his
ranch. There is great interest in the
Grimm alfalfa, and a Helena paper
asked Mr.. Williams if he would tell
about his crop this year, what it sold
for, who bought it and the history of
Grimm's Everlasting alfalfa In reply
Mr.. Williams has written of the his
tory Of the variety as told above, and
adds: e
"A draft for 1912 has just been re-
ceived for 1920 pounds of Grimm al
/ falfa seed, shipped on order of Profess
sor Thomas Cooper, secretary and di-
rector Of the Better Farming associa-
ton of North Dakota, cooperating
with the United States department of
agriculture at Fargo, N D. Eight
hundred pounds of the same crop were
shipped to Professor C. A. Zavits,
professor and experimentalist of the
department of field husbandry Of the
Ontario Agricultural college at
Guelph, Ont, Canada, at the same
price, go cents, or $3.50. The remain
der was sold locally, except some 400
pounds kept for next years seeding.
Only twenty acres of the Grimm were
cut for seed this year.
] "Some thirty five acres of my COM
mon alfalfa winter killed to practi-
cally the last stalk. Some six tons to
the acre were cut from the field in
three cuttings, and the fourth crop
grew to be about eight inches high.
The next spring the field was perfect
lily bare The ground did not raise and
break the roots. The alfalfa seemed
to die and rot in the ground. The
Grimm was not affected in the least
under the same conditions and same
,|age.
I. "The cause seemed to be from the
snow melting, completely covering the
alfalfa and then freezing solid. The
Grimm alfalfa has gone through sew
eral seasons under solid ice, and has
not been affected in the least.