Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-18

J g.. Haney, agricultural expert
from the extension division of the In
ternaktonal Harvester company re-
centlysreturned to Grand Forks after
IN North Dakota. Montana and south
Dakota. He came back convinced
that many farmers have themselves
20 blame for the straitened financial
conditions in which they found them
selves this year.
Nj. Haney's sympathies are entire
" with the farmer. He spends his
entire time in devising means and
Methods Of assisting them. He at
tends their meetings and advises them
and he goes before h business men
Of the city and presents the farmers
problems, Because OF his keen in
terest in the farmer, Mr.. Haney has
prepared the following article for
Tho Herald. 1t is an urgent appeal
for the farmer to become Independent
and for the farmer to enjoy all OF The
advantages that he has placed before
him. Here is Mr.. Haney's article:
Grow = IAving-Don't Buy 1t.
when a dollars worth of farm
products will buy only thirty to fifty
cents worth Of many Of his products
after they are manufactured. it is
moro essential that the farmer live
Off the farm, instead Of out Of the
stores. On the farms of many Of u
fathers and all of our grandfathers-
tho living was grown on the farm.
and most successful farmers follow
with this practice today. We can
not afford to hire someone to put up
condensed milk, butter or oleomar-
garine. kill and cure U meat, grow
and can our vegetables m fruits. etc.
These things must be lone on the
49, n~1,A froirh$ and nYnnnQo and
get all the profit others make on these
things.
There are thousands of families
many of them on farms-who do not
have a COW. What is home without
a cow" The COW produces the most
md best food at the least cost. of any
animal on the farm. We believe that
growing feed and caring for n or
euccess Of a farmer with a family, on
any farm. If feed cannot be grown
for the cows, the land is not fit for
farming purposes.
"Any kind of COW is worth more
than several poor ones. For begin
ming, get the best COW possible. In
the summer it is an easy matter to
care for a COW, even il she must be
lariated out. We have heard men
say they would quit farming before
they would drag a COW around on a
rope all summer. Many have quit
busted-because they wouldn't. Have
a pasture if possible and see to it
that there is feed in the pasture-not
simply a place for the COW to exercise.
Sow a. sweet clover, alfalfa, bronze
grass and wheat grass mixture. A
young farmer near Choteau. Montana,
said he would have lost his farm if il
had not been for five acres of sweet
clover which pasture -four cows, and
the cream sold paid his living ex-
penses. ~ -
Have Some Pigs. (
The pig is the greatest rustler or
the farm, and will root up a living
where any other animal would starve
They annot do this in a four by foul
pen. Plant pasture for the pigs
Barley makes good pastures il prop
erly managed. from early spring unit
SNOW flies. An acre of barley pas
tured or by pigs, shows more prof
than an acre harvested, threshed ant
fed. The pigs do all this for nothing
Hulless barley is best for hogging Of
the pigs like it best. Flint corr
can be grown successfully and hogget
Of almost anywhere that it is advis
able to attempt farming. and viii
make a bigger return hogged off thai
in n other way Sow barley earl
for pasture, and SOW sweet Glove
with it. By, July LIST to 18th the bar
ley Is ripe. and enough should b
sown to pasture the hogs until tn
Flint cor is ready. August 18th t
30th. Have a succession Of pasture
We have ten brood sows on eacI
half section farm. and by fall, hav