The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30
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corn. PRODUCTION

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Bottineau County w 6sa,.e conced-
ed the banner wheat q IS. iisMlorth
1 Dakota. A few men eo< 5
1906 realized the value ~
may be added, to the arnuser
their neighbors. The general attitu,
i however, was Why should we raise
I corn up here? In the first place it
won't grow and secondly why let corn
! butt into the wheat game Z" Never
theless some Of the old pioneers have
n1atured corn in Bottineau county ev-
4 cry year for more than is years. y.
$ Up to 1919 the corn acreage in the
county had reached 5,400 acres which
is not saying much for a county com
prising as townships. The hoppers
and drouth had taken: the crops for
several years and in 1919 they made
almost clean sweep. In September,
1919, e B. Aamodt was employed as
county agricultural agent Of Bottineau
County and the first problem that
4 started him in. the face was the feed
shortage He observed that the farm
ers who had grown corn during that
year had feed while those who did
not grow corn did not have feed. Dur
ing the winter of 1919-20, the county
furnished hundreds of tons of hay and
thousand of bushels of feed to the
farmers of the county. At every op-
portunity Carl talked corn. With the
cooperation Of the bankers associa-
ton and others of the county who OF
fered attractive prizes the 20 acre corn
club was launched that winter. AS a
result of this campaign the corn acre
age jumped to 1890 acres in 1920.
Approximately one hundred farmers
Joined the 2O-acre club and showed
"the folks back home" that corn could
he raised in the "banner wheat coun-
ty." That year Gilbert Thompson OF
Bottineau was crowned the corn king,
winning Deering corn binder offered
bv: the Bottineau Bankers Assocla-
tion .st ..--,= s,..-g..,.., a.,
The year 1921 saw the corn acreage
over the 2O,O00-acre mark, A. =.
Thompson Of Westhope went over the
top, winning free trip to the Inter
national Livestock Show at Chicago
offered again by the Bottineau County
bankers. ~.s
= The corn acreage for 1922 nearly
reached $4,000 acres. v. J. Mcfarland
of Russell who has been within strlk
ing distance for three years finally
hit the bulls-eye and was crowned the
1922 corn king, winning a $500 cash
prize for being first in his district ana
q free trip to the International as win
ner in the county. This trip was do
mated by the 500 Railroad Company.
Other winners in the 1922 contest
together with their prizes are as fol-
lows: w. P. johnson of Gardeha, Sec
ond prize, trip to National Dairy Ex-
position, donated by 500 Railroad; $15
cash, first prize in End district, Will
Kiesow of Kramer; $1,000 cash, second
prize in 3rd district, E. A. Zahn OF
Gardena; SO. cash, second prize End
district, Steve Wolff; O. T. Flanery
of Bottineau, sixth prize, trip to Ma
tiona Dairy Exposition by Bottineau
County Bank; J. B. Russell of Bot
tineau, 1st district prize $500; John
Dolezal, 1st district End prize $1,000;
A. r. Felt of Maxbass, 5th district 1st
prize Of $500, Roy Sidener, 9Th dis
trict 2nd prize $1,000 J.
:. In an interview with County Agent
Aamodt at the National Dairy Exposi-
tion he made the following statement:
"Corn ard sweet clover have solved
our feed problems in Bottineau county.
One is hardly. out Of sight Of g corn
field while driving over the county
during the summer and it means pler.-
Z ty Of feed. Thousands Of. bushels OF
corn will be picked this fall in COM
munities where hardly cornfieid was
seen three years ago, while almost
every farmer is planning on saving nus
Nown seed for next year. We can raise
better corn now than Minnesota could
when they started in the corn game
and we're going to stay by it."-lhe
d Dakota Farmer. .ss,s et \, &. +$s .1@