Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-03-18
ALFALFA GIVES
PROFITABLE YIELDS
rHREE TONS OF GOOD HAY TO
THE ACRE PER SEASON IN
NORTH DAKOTA.
TWO CUTTINGS A YEAR
iood Success Reported With Grimm
Afalfa-Inocuiation Very eene-
flcIal-Methods Used In Pre-
pairing the Soil for
Good Stand.

BY GEO. Il. HooPLE, Hoopie, N. q.
My father and work his farm to-
gether. Father is manager OF the
itate demonstration farm for Walsh
county, established on his farm, and
t was the superintendent of the DEM
,nstration farms. Mr.. Porter, who
started us raising alfalfa.
He had US seed the lanes between
pIats to alfalfa. There Is about three
tcres adjoining the demonstration
larm. for which he obtained Montana
iced for us four years ago. He ship
ped dirt from the agricultural college
10 inoculate with. We did not get this
Held and the lanes very we'll inocu.
lated. There is still little alfalfa In
lanes. but 1t does not amount TO much
as 1t Ia too thin.
We cut the first field once the first
year getting about one ton per acre
Of alfalfa and weeds. The second year
In two cuttings. we got about three
tons good alfalfa hay per acre. There
was very little snow on 1t the next
winter and It partly winter killed, and
we disked it little too strong In the
spring. ! think. 1t did not look very
good 80 we broke it and put 1t into
| potatoes.
The seed wu. poor, having heated In
the bin. We had bough4 the seed and
did not know about 1t till the pota.
toes came up. do not think there
was half u stand but we got two hun
dred bushels of Irish cobblers This
spring we put 1t back into Grimm al
falfa The spring being 80 cold. we
could not get the weeds started be-
fore 1t was time to seed alfalfa and
so 1t is very weedy. It has also been
very dry here all summer. Just about
five inches OF rain fell from April LIST
up to date. but we have clipped weeda
and we believe we have good catch
OF alfalfa. We will not cut what we
put in this year for hay.-just clip the
| weeds
We put in about seven acres Of
Grimm alfalfa on potato ground this
year. 1t Is all good stand. We seeded
eight pounds per acre, and inoculated
with about two hundred pounds OF
dirt per acre. scattered broadcast and
narrowed in.
We have about two acres of Mon
tana alfalfa seeded on potato ground
three years ago. 1t Is fine stand.
We inoculated with dirt from an alfal'
ia field. We cut one ton the first year,
about FIVE tons In two cuttings last
year, and about four tons In two cut
tings this year.
We disked the field this spring run
ming the disk nearly straight 80 as not
to cut the .wns. We ran the dish
over It four times at one disking. Disk
ing It lightly seems to do 1t lots ol
good In the spring. We can almost
see 1t grow after we disk it. We got
about four tons per acre in two cut
tings this year as dry as 1t has been
We have about an acre next to this
piece which we put in in August last
year. We had potatoes on it. The
weeds got the start of them and VIZ
plowed them up. The ground wa:
moist and we had little alfalfa seee
so we seeded It, Did NOT inoculatt
this piece. We got good stand, anc
the weather was cool and rainy al
fall. so 1t got good start before Il
froze. 1t is pretty we'll inoculated thi:
summer. We got about one ton ths
first cutting and one.half ton the sec
ond cutting. We just happened II
strike the right kind Of weather OF
do not think we would have gotten s
stand Of alfalfa by seeding that late
We have about one acre of Grimm
We drilled in year ago. We cut L
once this summer for hay and we hops
to get seed crop from 1t this fall