The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1915-03-26

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and then put in years Of study and hard
work to reclaim his land and return to it !
the elements of which it had been
robbed.
Mr.. Matthews is a great advocate of
clover and he produces facts and figures
to show what it has done for him. He
states that when he now has a wheat
crop that does not average him twenty
bushels 10 the acre he figures he
has not had successful crop. There
is no money in fifteen busbel wheat
crops. He sows clover in large quaint.
ties. He takes of hay crop and the
next season plows down his clover crop
IN June. backsets it in August and has
found that by doing this in the months
mentioned he is most successful. At
first there vas some difficulty IN getting
a catch of clover. but that at this time
there is no part Of his land, comprising
about fifteen quarter sections, that will
not grow large crops of clover. He states
that he never sows Timothy without Glow
or. Timothy is bard on the soil and takes
out as much fertility as any other crop
of which he knows. Sow clover to over
rum the effects of th. timothy.
he recited a conversatIoD .r had with
reference to the seeu ing lack If pros
perity on the part of the rising genera
tion of farmers. HIS explanation was
good one and right to the point. He
stated that the only reason the young
farmers of today were having hard time
of it because their fathers or those who
had gone before them had handed over
to them farms from which had been ex
tracted every element necessary to the
raising of profitable crops. They were
in the possession of robbed farms and
before they could be successful they
would have 10 return to the soil those
elements which had been taken out of
it by their predecessors.
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the good points OF Mr.. Matthews ia k,
but 1t may he summed up by stating
that some system of rotation must be
adopted. He makes clover the basis of
h's rotation and has made a success of
his farming operations by SO doing. He
air ar> has Sn much land ~ clover and
wLat i'e oteaks "a. Ia ANY sat, ne s"w-
on some other land on his farm.
Following MIR. Matthews, Prof. Haney
took up the same general subject q
soils and rotations. Mr.. i1aney .l,ustrat
ed his talk with charts showing the All
vantages Of crop rotations as experienc
ed through long years Of experiments q,
several experiment stations. He took
up the question of clover, alfalfa, sweet
clover and other egumes. He recited
the elements these plants will restore to
worn out soils and why these are neces
sary to the growing of profitable crops.
His talk was interesting and instructive
and most important of all was under
standab'e. Mr.. Haney combines the
knowledge of the scientist with that OF
the man who has done the very things
OF which be is talking, and has the valu.
! able knack Of imparting his knowledge
to others.
Prot. Haney is man we need in North
Dakota and his removal to some other
state would be a distinct loss to the
people of the North Dakota. Mr.. Haney
in discussing the raising of profitable
crops stated that there must be a rota-
tion. II it was not rotation of crops, it
would be a rotation of men. Nothing
more to the point was ever stated in
connection with farming operations in
this state or any other state.
Supper and Movies.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Haney's
talk at six o'clock, all visitors we're ser.
we'd with supper at the Pembina Hotel
as the guests of the Commercial Club
and in spite of the bad weather, almost
the entire delegation of visitors we're
present at supper. Immediately after
supper all visitors were again the guests
of the Commercial Club at moving
picture show.
Alfalfa.
Just preceding the regular moving
show, Prof. Haney delivered an illustrat.
ed lecture on alfalfa. He discussed this
subject from every standpoint. The
choice of seed, how to prepare the land,
how to seed, it's care and other allied
steps were presented in clear and con-