Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-11-18

pire we have in Stutsman county;
not only in size, It being about 1900
square miles, but in productive ca
pability.
Do you know that our soil varies
comparatively little throughout the
county; that at least 95 per cent OF
our acres might produce wheat, or
other small grains, corn, alfalfa and
grasses; do you realize If the 95 per
cent was cropped and the produc-
ton were an average value OF SIS
per acre as it is this year, the value
of the, crop would be over $23,0O0,-
600, market value and ii the field
grains were fed, it would mean sew
eral millions more and then add to
this the thousands of tons of grass
or hay on the acres not cropped and
you add another considerable sum.
This empire is composed OF peo-
pie of all nationalities, the larger
per cent of them coming from other
states. We have quite few Russian
Germans in the western tiers OF
townships.
There are no colonies of one peo-
pie, exclusive OF all others. The
soil and subsoil of the county are
excellent, growing az will be noticed
by the yields of grains, grasses, al
falfa, corn and garden crops, i'm
mense crops Of all, in the same
year. This Is unimpeachable evil
dence that all the necessary ele-
ments for plant growth are con-
tanned in our fields.
For instance potatoes yield from
rs to 800 bushels and alfalfa, to-
tally different crop, yields from 2 to
5 tons per acre; the small yields
are not the cause of the lack of soil
elements, but are the results Of i'm
proper preparation, cultivation, etc.
The same is true of wheat which
yielded from 13 to 44 bushels, oats
28 to IS, barley from &c to 81, max
from I to 20, ETC., ETC..
\ All stock does as well. In this en-
sIme as any,~splaces In sthe sUnited
States, cur native grasses are very
snutritive and our water everywhere
is of the best.
The stock industry has increased
remarkably as evidenced by the
record of shipments, which are CIV
en- here. In 1912 there were ship
ped SO cars of cattle, 1S cars of
hogs and 80 mixed cars; in 1913,
lO4 cars of cattle, Al cars of hogs
and 46 mixed cars, in 1914, SO cars
of cattle, 95 cars of hogs and 1O8
mixed cars. The 1915 shipments of
hogs will largely exceed those OF
1914. Note the increase in hogs,
in 1912 18 cars, in 1914 95 cars.
This increase was very largely due
to the corn increase. This year with
the shortage of mature corn, the
shoats will be finished on, barley
fully as cheap as could be done on
corn.
Our empire is not alone one of
wheat as so many believe, but pro-
duces the feed for all kinds of stock
at a cost that makes feeding profit
able. Horses and sheep have not
been mentioned but they do equally
as we'll as the cattle and hogs.
The increase of cream production
is astonishing as can easily be veri-
fed by the books of the express
companies at the various stations,
many a farmer paying all his store
bills by the products of his cows
and hens.
Corn = Profitable Crop.
/. It is extremely interesting to note
what corn is doing in Stutsman
county. A few years ago, 1t was
generally believed that it did not
and would not pay to grow corn
for it's grain in this county. The
reason for that is easily seen. Corn
had not been given fair chance,
! it was put in after other seeulne
was done, often times it was nearly
june LIST, the ground was poorly
prepared, If at all. The field was
dragged once or, twice and then cul-
tivated two or three times. This
would not grow corn in the so-called
corn belt, and of course did not
here.
Since good corn methods have
been used, astonishing results have
been obtained, field yields of from
40 to so bushels are very frequent.
In the boys acre contest, the
Yields ranged from 33 to 7s bushels
of mature corn. 5..
These results were obtained by
using properly selected, home grown
seed corn. which had been cured
and stored so that the termination