Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-03-01

penses in farmin' right is this here
commercial fertilizer. Seems to me if
we could find somethin' to take it's
place we could save whole lot
"That's just the thing we want to
do-instead of paying the fertilizer fac
tories for it, do our own manufacture
ing
Sure, an make the profit ourselves.
You know and I know the commercial
fertilizer is gone in year. Maybe a
little Of the phosphate stays in the soil
for the next year, but not enough to
do any good. Got to buy again next
year."
"Thats So
Nov, l see by this here bulletin
we've just read that an experiment
showed that seven years after piece
Of soil was treated with barnyard fer
tilizer it showed effects of the stuff as
against piece of the same land treat
ed with commercial fertilizer. That
showed no trace hardly after the Sec
ond year.
"Looks like the thing to do is to fig
ure the way to get more barnyard stuff
and build the land up so it will stay
built commented Joe.
"That'S just what l mean, son. Stop
the outgo for the commercial chemical
| stuff
"How are we going to do it?''
Its goin' to be slow work. In the
first place, we've got to have more cat
tie, an we've got practically no money
now. But we can do this: Winter is
on, an folks will sell cattle cheap rath-
err than feed 'em. We ought to be able
to pick up dozen or SO half starved
little calves for next to nothing. We
can get credit at the bank for hun
dred dollars, an I think we better put
it in calves
Say" observed Joe. that's a per-
fectly fine scheme. l know where
can buy two five-months-oldc calves now
for So apiece"
"An' I'll start tomorrow to bust up
six or seven acres more an put in
more oats. It's late, know, but they
will make all right That will give
winter grazing and stuff to feed on an
| straw to bed 'em in an turn under
later. We can pull them calves through
without much cost until grass comes
| out; then next summer put every foot
of ground we can in pea vine hay
Peas are fine for the land-collect
nitrogen from the air and store it on
the roots in those little bumps-'no-
dulles the book calls them,'' said Joe.
Then the leaves that fall from the
pea vines help put humus in the land
along with the decaying roots
$50 with the oats and pea vine hay
and fodder we will be we'll fixed to
take a big herd of cattle through next
winter, and what nubbin corn we
raise" said Mr.. Weston. We'll keep
! the cattle up at night. bed 'em in
leaves an straw, compost it, and we've
got good start on fertilizer. In two
years more we ought to have those
calves in prime fix for beef cattle and
! get $50 apiece for EN-
That looks mighty fine" assented
! Joe. Besides. the oats being grazed
by the cattle will help the oats, and
| the land will get the benefit of what
fertilizer is dropped there then, and
that will amount to a heap"
'"Then." continued Mr.. Weston, Il
| figure that this next fall. instead of
selling our cotton seed. we ought to
swap it to the oil mill for cottonseed
meal and hulls. There's a heap of fat
tening stuff in the meal. and it forms
about fourth of these commercial
fertilizers and furnishes nitrogen. Mix
the meal and bulls and feed it to our
cattle. We get the benefit Of the fat
tening for the beeves an then have the
rest of it with the nitrogen in it for the
! land
Say, you were late getting started
but you sure are farming like an up
to date farmer noWr enthused joe
"Tryin' to make up for lost time,
son. Well have somethin' yet, you an
|. Well, as l was sayin', in this scheme
we practically get our beef cattle for
nothing, get the benefit of permanent
fertilizer for the land and ought to
make a profit Of 60 or Is per cent on
each ANIMAL
1T looks good" judicially admitted
Joe.
st is good. and it's horse sense too.
Why, if we just broke even on han
ding the cattle it would pay us, for
the good we will get in fertilizer for
the land and to stop the outgo for
chemical stuff each year. But we'll
make money on 'em. big money
IF we keep planting peas and fill
ing the ground with the roots full of
nitrogen and planting cover crops in
winter and grazing it and turning un-
der stubble and putting rotted leaves
and straw and cornstalks and stable
cleanings mixed in this land in five
years we'll have the richest place in
the county, continued Mr.. Weston.
'Well. I'm going to go hunting fol-
scrubby half starved calves" said Joe
iii ask all the boys at school if they
have any to sell for cash. and you 60
and get the money from the bank"
Cali right, and first thing we know
We'll have fertilizer factory here