Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-17
CHAPTER III.

700 ConTerS with His Partner.
'ET1ELLO, partner! What are YOU
III doing here?" inquired Mr..
Somervtlle as Joe. after hav-
~ ing seen the bank teller hon
or his check promptly by paying So to
the plowman, walked into the store.
1--WE come in to get eight bushels of
rye"
what for?"
I'm going to SOW it broadcast thick
over the four acres. I've already had
1t broken. cross broken and narrowed
fourteen inches deep, and I'm ready to
plant
But we are not going to raise rye,
Joe?' was the dubious query.
mo, sir, but we are going to make
rye raise cotton and corn for u.s."
'How?"
well, this is October Let the rye
grow until January; then turn it un-
der. and it will rot by planting time
and tighten that old barren soil a heap.
besides furnishing a good deal Of val
liable plant food"
"Well. now, where'd you get that
idea?" asked Mr.. Somerville in admira-
ton.
"Saw it in one of those bulletins the
state commissioner gave me the other
day"
well, it's worth trying. If the state
says it's the thing to do l reckon we
can afford to do it. What else have
you done?'
Joe told him about the leaves and
the barnyard scrapings and the eight
loads OF fertilizer he bought. His part
ner clapped him on the shoulder.
That's the stuff. Well show these
folks around here something about
farming yet"
Nov, please, sir, get that wire fenc-
ing out tomorrow. l don't want the
neighbors' pigs to eat up our rye"
You can count on the wire and man
expenses?"
Yes, sir. I'm not going to pay out
4 cent except by check, so we can
have receipt for every payment"
THAT is sound business"
And l wish, if you please, sir, you'd
write around and find out the best va
rieties of seed corn to plant and the
best sort of cotton"
Yes, we must get the very best vari-
cites. think we can get a corn that
will bring two and three ears to the
stalk instead Of only one, like the sorts
wo have around horo"
And about the cotton, Mr.. Somer-
Vile. I've heard daddy say that he
always got more for his first bale than
any other"
THAT is usually true if the first bale
is early, before the main crop is dump
ed on the market With two or three
million bales of cotton all over the
south being offered for sale at once, of
course, the price goes down." Joe pom
dered moment.
''Then it seems to me-" be said, If
we can get sort of cotton that will
be ready to pick before the rest we
will make more off it, won't WEI"
Exactly. If we get naturally
quick maturing variety and give it ev
cry opportunity and hasten it along
with stimulating chemical fertilizers
we ought to beat the main crop by
three weeks and get at least SIS bale
for it,
well, you see about writing for the
seed, and let's get the earliest variety
we can that gives big crop. If we
Just get an early cotton that don't
make much Of a crop we haven't gain
ed anything on the standard cotton
that makes a heavy crop but is late,
have we?''
you're a pretty close f'gurer, Joe.
I'll attend to the seed"
Look here, Mr. Somerville, let's put
one of those acres in oats instead of
sowing it in rye, and not plow the
oats under"
mot much money in an acre of
OATS
mot by itself, but can get the oats
of by the middle Of May or list of
June and then plant it In Mexican
June corn, with cowpeas sowed broad
cast in the rows"
"Well, that sounds better-two crops
year off that land
"Better than that. I'll pull the fod-
d der from the cornstalks the last of
July or list Of August. We ought to
yet 25O bundles of fodder, worth 2K2
cents bundle"-
"That's three crops-fne!'
"Then that corn will be matured by
~ lot ~ OF
once"
Eyes. Then what?"
"Cut all those pea vines and dry
them. They make the best sort of hay,
and you know what it sells for
II can get $3.50 half ton for it any
time"
I'VE ought to get ton off that acre.
That will be sort Of extra CROP"
II should think that would be about
enough to make one acre produce in q
year, Joe-oats, corn, fodder, hay?"
mo, sir, not yet" laughed Joe. 1.-The
reason I want to plant the cowpeas Is
that 1 saw in the book that the pea
vines are legume and gather nitro
gen from the air and store it away in
the soil in little warts or nodules on
the roots of the vine and that CROP
OF peas on land is worth ton of com
mercial fertilizer for the next cror
wear. Then there will be a lot of fall
en- leaves from the pea vines to be pillow
ed under, and they will add some hu
mus to the soil"
II always heard that crop OF COW