The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
loads or FERTILIZER ne bought. His part
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That's the stun. Well show these
folks around here something about
farming yet"
Nov, please, sir, get that wire fenc-
ing out tomorrow. | don't want the
neighbors' pigs to eat up our rye"
You can count on the wire and man
to put 1t up. Are you keeping count of
expenses?"
Yes, sir. I'm not going to pay out
a cent except by check, so we can
have a 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. l think we can get a corn that
will bring two and three ears to the
stalk instead of only one. like the sorts
we have around here"
"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 rue 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 W the
south being offered for sale at once, Of
course, the price goes down." Joe pom
dered a moment.
''Then it seems to me-" he said, IF
we can get a sort of cotton that will
be ready to pick before the rest we
will make more of it, won't weY
Exactly. If we get a 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 a bale
for it."
WELL, you see about writing for. the
seed, and let's get the earliest variety
we can that gives a big crop. If we
Just get an early cotton that don't
make much Of q crop we haven't gain
ed anything on the standard cotton
that makes q heavy crop but is late
have wei"
you're a pretty close figurer. Joe.
I'll attend to the Seed"
"Look here, MI. Somerville, let's put
one Of those acres in oats instead OF
sowing it in we. and not pillow the
oats under"
mot much money in an acre of
oats
"Not by itself, but l can get the oats
off 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
a year off that land"-
Better than that. I'll pull the fOd
der from the cornstalks the last OF
July or LIST of August. We ought t.
get 25O bundles Of fodder. worth q:
cents a bundle"-
That's three c~rops-fine!
Then that corn will be matured by
the middle Of September. Get it off a
once"
Yes. Then what?"
"Cut all those pea vines and dry
them. They make the best sort of hay
and you know what it sells for"
81 can get $3.50 a half ton for it any
time"
I'VE ought to get a ton off that acre
That will be a sort of extra CROP
Il should think that would be abou
enough to make one acre produce in
year, Joe-oats, corn. fodder, hay"
mo, sir, not yet" laughed Joe. "Th'
reason l want to plant the cowpeas i
vines are a legume and gather nitro
gen from the air and store it away il
the soil in little warts or nodules OF
the roots of the vine and that a crol
Of peas on land is worth a ton of com
mercial fertilizer for the next crol
year. 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 a crop of COW
peas helped land. but l never knew ex
actly why" said MI. Somerville.
Haven't you been studying you
book about agricultural" asked 10
severely. 1--WE been through min
once and am half through it again
And I don't leave a page until l cal
remember the sense Of it."
well, the truth is, Joe, I've been 81
busy here at the store and book
keeper has been SICK"
81 reckon it is right hard for you t.
find the time. Well. as l was saying
I'll get those pea vines off, knock dow
the ~cornstalks into the low burrows
then get a turning plow and bed tina
acre up on those stalks and pea vim
leaves and roots to form humus TO
spring."
Then you ought to give that LAM
a rest"
mo, street. Joe shook his head
Land doesn't need rest as long as 20,
put something back into it for wha
your crops take out. I'll SOW that acr'
down in White Milan turnips. The!
are uuick growers. and we car sci