Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-21

That of Iowa in the next few years,
and make this one Of the leading hog
n cattle producing states: that the
successful growing OF alfalfa will
transform this rich valley into one
OF the great butter and cheese states
OF the Union. for dairying, alfalfa
n silos go hand i'll hand. The day
or has all but passed, to re-
turn. This would be so, II there were
no new farm settlers, for the sons
OF the pioneer %.Garlners are alive to
the situation. having taken agricul-
turai courses Dr. been educated in
the North Dakota agricultural COL
]ege, and all of them take an active
part in farm institute work, giving
them the light of day or what crop
rotation means to the real earning ca
pacity of the soil.
Does a Small Farm Pay?
This question can be best answered
by giving the actual crop yield from
Joseph Kasal's 160-acre farm, located
in Fertile township. Walsh county.
MIR. kasal purchased this farm some
twenty years ago and at that time it
was rated as one of the poorest pieces
of. ant in the township. while today
1t is n of the best as to crop yields.
This transformation has been con
plished by rotation of crops, the right
kind of fall blowing, careful selection
of the highest class of clean seed
and the getting Of the crop into the
! ground early in@the spring. The 1914
crop area was l27 acres, from which
was threshed LAB bushels of wheat,
$40 bushels of rye and S13 bushels
Of oats. worth at present prices 81
325. The wheat rated Nc. 1 hard,
was locked but pound for dirt
and was as fine a sample as you would
! wont to look at, the yield being 23
bushels to h acre. The seeding on
this farm commenced on April ia
and was finished on the goth. The
cutting of the wheat was commenced
July 26 and everything was in shock
before the hot weather or rust had
started to damage the crops Then
following the ,utting the whole croI
was stacked, after which blowing
was started and completed by Septem.
Der IL. Then after threshing ma.
chimes had finished their shock
threshing, Mr.. Kasal had his grain
threshed from the stacks, at a consid-
cradle saving In dollars. He pays out
40 money for hired help and works
the farm with five horses. Every 20
acres is summerfallowed, the plan be-
ing to pillow up a little fresh earth e
cry year. Besides the surnmerfallow
anu tne lauQ ulQef CULTIVATION iOl
commercial purposes there are thir-
teen acres left for yard. buildings
garden and fodder crops to provide
for the keeping of the cows. pigs and
poultry and to supply the family ne
cessities.
This kasal quarter section farm is
only one of many that certainly
proves that there is more money in
small farms than in the big farms.
In fact. a quarter section farm well
titled, with crop rotation will pro.
duce more than the average farm of
a whole section. The underlying past
vicissitude as it has beset North Da-
kota farmers was the easy manner
in which land was acquired when il
was u territory and became a state,
there being four eas roads of a
curing a quarter Of a section, the
tree claim, p%re-enption. soldiers
right and holnesteading. This open.
ed the way for men of ear of a
quiring many of these quarter sec.
tons at a mere sum. for statistics tel
us that there are only two out of ten
that .emigrate to q new country to en-
gage in agricultural pursuits who
make success. therefore the big farms
and why the n crop wheat without