Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-29
Farming in the Northwest
News and Notes as Compiled by the Grand Forks
Herald
FARMER URGES CATTLE RAISING

Farmers will either have to learn
to raise stock or go out of business.
If the people who are on the farms
now don't learn it, there are plenty
of farmers from outside the state who
will do it. They are keen to come in
here and buy up good farms. 1:
bought this place a little owe a year
ago., and already I have been offered
paid for it. II a little better than
$500 per acre. That's what cattle
do in the boosting of land values"
The speaker was j. d. Cole, owner
of the White Clover Dairy farm south
of Grand Forks on the Belmon: road.
Mr.. Cole is a well known stock man,
a breeder of thoroughbred Holstein
cattle. He has been out from the
"alud country" twelve years, long
icanized, but fortunately no. long
enough to lose his Scotch accent or
his love of good cattle. He has been
handling stock for the past twenty
years. In Scotland it was the Aver
shires and the Aberdeen Angus.
Here, Mr.. Cole finds the Holstein the
best for the dairy.
1.-THE work on a dairy farm may
be a little harder, but it's much more
interesting than the ordinary grain
farming" Mr.. Cole went on to say.
-There is a great deal Of interest in
watching the calves grow, and in
studying the development of each cow
in milk and butter production. The
work is all the year around. I m
ploy three men in winter and four in
summer. The better wages, steady
employment and the kind Of work at
tracts a good type of men. I never
have to depend on t~ransients. I be-
lieve more cattle would do away with
I. w. W. troubles. ~
Steady Income.
There is no comparison between
the profits on the diversified farm
and on the grain farm. On the form
er there is a steady income the year
around, a hail storm doesn't knock
! out the entire years profits in ten
not need to worry the owner. This is
the slack season just now for milk,
yet we are getting about 100 gallons
of milk per day. In the winter, when
we are at the top of our milk pro-
duction, we get something over 100
gallons. This milk sells at an aver
age of fifty cents per gallon.
"A herd of dairy cows mean that
the and is well taken care of. The
grain crops raised on a dairy farm
have a heavy yield. I had forty
\ bushels Of wheat to the acre on
twenty-five acres that had been used
for corn the a before. I will seed
that back to corn next spring. I
seeded wheat and oats together this
year. and found the experiment suc-
cessful. The oats prevented rust on
the wheat. This went about 10 bush
els to the acre on a thirty acre strip
on which corn was last year and bar
ley h year before that. A twelve
acre piece on which was sweet clover
and alfalfa in preceding seasons gave
me a yield of 59k bushels to the acre.
This year / seeded down about G.
acres to sweet clover.
Il have two silos. The second one
It of concrete and built this summer.
1t Is for summer use when the pas
ture is poor. The first silo holds $50
tons for winter sue and the second
holds 100 tons. If the silage is prop
erly put up it will keep for seven
years. 1t should be put up when the
corn is in he dent. It can be put
up from the shock later on If pound
for pound Of water is used. We put
up 225 tons of silage this year. II
took IS acres of corn to supply that
amount. 1 value it al $1,000. IN.
Guiding all labor costs from the time
1t was planted till 1t was stored away
as sflage, this cost me about $3.50
per ton.
Pure Bred Holsteins.
AT the present time T. have II
II cattle. IS of them pure bred Hol.
stems. featrne the Sir Pietertje
Ormsby line. Most Of the female.
are Of mixed families, being a com
bination OF the King Se9is and Aaggie
Cornucopia JohannaiLad lines.
'Herd is an interesting young
bull" continued Mr.. Cole as he patted
the neck o an exceedingly well.
formed youngster. HE viii be q
!, year old in February. HIS four near.
est dana were all IS pound cows
He was sired by a son Of King Segf.
Pontiac Alcartra out OF 5 4 pouni
dauEhter Of Hester Aa1tji Korndyk.
whoee record was 40 pounds Of butter
~ 2 days. once the worlds recorC
cow OF all breeds.
This bull looks shout half a. soft
AGAIN a. he really II. when the writ,
FER remarked upon hia UNUSUALLY drr
deyelopment, Mr.. Cole sid:
That's because he fed right
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