Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-20

Alfalfa hay .......... $50 400
In the eastern and also h south
ern parts of the United States. where
crops have been grown and sold with
little or no regard for the maintaining
Of soil fertility, we are all aware of
the condition of poverty and desola-
ton which a resulted. And we also
know that during recent years man
of these abandoned farms have been
taken up and by a system of live stock
farming, and the use of the knowledge
and the application of mineral plant
foods, these farms have been restored
to almost their former productive
state. However, it has required the
Introduction of dairy farming. which
admits of returning practically all the
fertility grown and fed on the farm,
such before us, there certainly is 10
excuse for farms of the present IN
GRAFTON being depleted to h extent
that they were, even fifty years ago..
Stock raising and dairying also call
for a variety of feeds, which meal
that a rotation of crops may be grown
on the farm, including such legumes
as alfalfa, clover and sweet clover.
The rotation of crops and the return
ing of all the manure to the land, will
make it possible to retain or improve
la po"SA VI XII ooi Jill
The Dairy Cow is an Economical
Producer of Human Food.
No other animal on the farm, for a
given amount of food, will produce
the same quantity of digestible food
as the dairy cow. 1t has been shown
by careful experiments that a dairy
COW will produce nearly five times as
much food as will be produced by the
growing OF beef cattle. In other words,
tho Enop;rr ard fooIiro IF 0ra rool
COW on the farm would mean the pro-
luction of almost as much human
food as would be secured by fattening
five tWo-year-old steers, and the COW
would still be left to go on producing,
while the steers are butchered and
eaten and the production ceases.
A great many have feared that
there would be an over production of
dairy products. Such seems to be very
increase very rapidly, especially if the
price of milk n butter should be
lowered to any extent, and it cannot
be said that there is not a great profit
in the production of milk and butter
at present prices.
1t is true that dairying is adapted
to high priced land, but that does not
mean that it is not possible to make
good profits on cheap land. Land in
j. vCISCy 1S1dIlOS hGIllIldTk ana
Holland, rents at fifty to one hundred
dollars per acre, and could not be
bought for a thousand dollars, and
the chief products are obtained from
the COW, and also from the fine class
OF bacon which is produced, by feed
ing milk and peas to high class hogs
Feed For Dairy Cows Easily Grown
Here.
While some may consider that there
is a great handicap in our long win
tiers, and short pasture seasons in this
section, yet some of those who went
on the dairy farm inspection trip were
surprised when some Wisconsin farm
ers told them hat they thought on,
long winters would be a great ad-
vantage. They said that there would
not be such a long time for the flies
to bother the cows, which apparently
they consider a very great advantage
They also find hat winter dairying il
more profitable than summer dairy.
ing. notwithstanding the fact that feec
must be put up. The reason for this i.
evidently that in the winter, dairy pro.
ducts are much higher, and the labor
8or doing the work is more plentiful
and not 80 expensive.
In this region. all who have tried
to grow alfalfa, clover or sweet clover
Sare convinced of the ease with which
I these crops can be produced. They ar,
A1Dos convinced that corn is almost a.
certain 9 crop here as it is further
south. where drouths and other agen
cie1 afe apt to cause failures. Durin,
the past years. It is doubtful: II ther,
gglsAFegion anywhere that has produc
"a corr and alfalfa Of better uualit,
Tor feeding the dairy herd. than RICH
lngtho northwest. And 1t Is known tha
seef1 sflase and alfalfa, with q small