Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1917-03-01
BIG MONEY IN
GROW NG HEMP
EXPERTS CLAIM THIS VALUABLE
CROP CAN BE RAISED IN
THIS PART OF STATE

William Schoemberger of this
city who represents the Intelma
tioniI Harvester G mpamy in this
section of the state returned from
Minneapolis Saturday where he
had been at "a meeting of the In
telmatioala'l Bl 0ek Men for five
states. In an interview he told
Of NJ. Holden's address to the
agents ct the big harvester
concern, telling of many features
of the wax outlined by that grea
expert. The meeting was of three
days duratI m, taking i'm THE
agents from North and South Da.
kota, Minnesota, WISCONSIN and
Iva. The conference was CON
Quoted by Prof. n. A. Holden for
the agricultural extension depart
memt of the |. H. c.. Mr.. Holden
is recognized as am expert auth
ority im the United States
Through his effCTts Nh this dir
cctiom the government statistics
prove that the yield of corn mn
Iowa has been raised ON an aver
age OF II bushels per acre in the
last TEN years. The greatest
thing of adj is to- test seed conn,
thus making sure that the seed
will grw. Booklet entitled
Test, DON'T Guess contains all
informant M, also paper copies of
his famous Rag Doll,' test. AL
so books ON alfalfa, ''How Not
to Fail ] wild have a quantity
of this literature for distribution
to anyone who will ask for it.
Also will be glad ito meet and
show amy ONE how to make the
seed corn test ;it is so simple that
amy school boy cam make and
read the test. Mr.. Holden says
there is mo good reason why this
sectEm of South Dakota cannot
raise good CORN nearly every year
and ait least a good fodder crop
every year. He says we sh uld
not import CORN from amy other
part of this on amy other state,
but breed up our own seed corn.
We imprcNe our stock by good
breeding, why not cur corn. We
all know that the native steer is
The best for this country, the
same with home grown CORN.
Also the matter of growing
hemp for making twine. At pres
mt adj of the hemp raised in the
United States, with the exception
If a small quantity raised in
Wise omsin, is raised i'm Kentucky.
In 1916 80 acres was grown ON
he l. H. G. experim entail farm
1t Aberdeen, and the same amount |
m our farm at Grand Forks. The
1ield was about $500 p aundIs per |
lcre, worth now om the market |
about Is cents per pound. 1t is
cwn broadcast or with a drill,
he same as small grain ;requlres
10 cultivation and lis cut with a
'eaper. Costs about 5 cents a |
yormd to produce. Sow at corn
time. Two car loads of
his seed will be SENT to North |
md South Dakota for distribu-
j vnl this spring for experiment
al purposes.
! wild have a small quantity of
his seed for distribution i'm this
'ecticn of the country, and our
farm expert, Mr..
Ianey at Aberdeen, tells me here
no reason why we cannot grow
he same out here. I Wild be
glad to send literature and talk
his matter over with any ONE
Who is interested. The prosper
ty of the farmer and the ranch
nam means the prosperity of
everyone else,for unless they are
business is not good,
ind we should all be interested
n this work.
will be glad TO meet or write
in this section Of the
'tate at amy time 10 talk over amN|
# these thangs, and while
lm nch am expert and do mot
,laim to- be ONE or know aal about
hese things, yet I may be able TO
cave something of value with
,ou, at least know I will LEARN
something from you, for that is
he way we all learn.
Here lis another thought that
Mr.. Holden left with us, you can
IUOte me or not.aS you see fit,