Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-17
lGRAIN FARMER SEES
RAISING AS MEMS .,..s.1
OFSOLVTNG MANY PROBLEMS
Believes Raising
Stock In North
rs Sdrest Way For
Is; Few Cows On.
Would Pay Store
Ae Declares.
Ter passing through the

@tof EHleradO IN
fly, either by train or auto
ennot fail to notice with
the beautiful farm home
ssFeitch. This handsome
Its on the north just on. the
AWAY, the I. r! trail. on
eEof town west or Emerado.
bwnsite of Emerald was cut
this farm years ago when it
~ Mned by Henry Hancock, now
n Ind Forks.
EHancock owned this farm in
Il ariy days before there was any
'tS3 near by. There were few build
ih5 on the place, and it vas then,
as Nv, a wheat farm. Sixteen years
sak MIR. Feitch, who had been for
Ell eeen years farming~sa 48O-acre
fa n In Makinock township west Of
H& Aesyford, purchased this place and
stMFted the building up of the pres
eIEsplendid estate. About the same
aSaSthe John Fadden farm, contain
in6 $40 acres. He still retains the
ownership Of all farms, his two sons,
Stanley and Clifford operate the two
other farms and Mr.. Veitch himself
operatessthe home place Of $40 acres.
HesWassolt in the potato patch spray
ing ~hiaSforty acres of tubers when
ThHlassReIald visitor found him last
Cows Win wheat.
ssmust confess I am still. q
gra 3Irmer. | have been a grain
fan ESnow for thirty-three years.
ana Qdon't know that + will evel
chaA Envy ways. Mr. Veitch whim-
sicaay replied in answer to the Wis
i.or5sa laestions in regard to Ms farm
bad thing for a young fellow start
Ing in to have q few cattle. 1 think
1t is&wise to have. q good %purebred
sire, and grade a herd w rather thar
trying to buy a~~pureDIed herd in the
beglnning. In. that way it doesn't
cost afortune to s.Ar,, not as much
is38at stake. AMI u li.aM hasn't 100
much money ted up.
Il do. think lhele is too much.
credits EIlieIe Is no%slecu Tor me
stores beng so Tea u. With credit
tor farnie.a II tne latD.e.s had
four Or five guou cows they could
pay their slere Ullts W., Their CT cam
checks. a man ought 70 lay as ne
goes. II came IRON a daH'ylpg 4ucdi-
ity, st. Louis county, New York, and
l have seen how The COWS are uulld-
ing UP that country. that is consld-
cred one Of the wealt.liest counties i'll
the east; it, is beautifully built up,
excellent sets of 1arm buildings on
even the small thirty-acre farms.
There they make the money from the
cream and milk do its best. They
have a constant income, and they
save part of it n live on part of it
and put the rest into improving the
place. Here, too many of the farm
ers use. Tho cream cheeks for luxuries.
Somehow they uont seem to realize
that that is money that could so to
paySa a. bits and running ex-
penses.
GrSd ,.unoy in Grain.
E$azAsI have .ha-. fdr.4-ed for thirty
thFSe yca.s, az l. E1ye never made
as mutng niS.e, =. l. AZ ! have done
in Ele past .ur ysars. OF course,
.warG and that SPOILED a LOT OF men
whGSS. were just beginning to start
dairying. 1t is easier to raise grail.
thanRgit is to dairy, but we can't keep
it UP indefinitely. There is no ques-
tion5that conditions haye forced the
increase. If dairying. II would like
to see this country well built up. with
substantial barns and comfortable
houses on each farm, but We are not
ing. That is too uncertain; there
must be a steady income such as only
the dairy cow can give
Alfalfa q Specially.
%tT@am going into alfalfa pretty
heavily. ] have IS acres OF it here
on his place ard 80 acres on the
othS9 farm. l am keeping it Apr
seedM l lind l make Il great deal
mor9A out OF it. that way" Last year
I cut over 100 o Il OF hay OF that
45-asFe piece n got enough seed
for$gny own planting besides. took
seedsNfrom the first crop and also
from the second. l found that the
frstscrop gave me nearly three times
as much seed as the second. 80 this
yeara1 am leaving it all 10 cut for
. seed I don't need any hay of 1t
ANYHOW. I have hay enough in the
than halfway through the coming
winter. The-barn is 40xll6, and the
hayttEmow holds $50 tons. seeded
down thirty acres OF alfalfa this
spring in addition to the rest.
MA Great Fcrtillzing Crop.
'T%beljevc sweet clover is one OF
blyasput on QUIZ land. 1t certainly
beats working With commercial or
barn fertilizer. just. SOW it on. a
fifty sixty acre tract, n it N
all taken care Of. keep some seed
ed down for pasture every year. II
we5$Sserer go extensively into cattle
raising it is what we are going tc
needssmost for feed. It is ideal for
pastnrage. When the grass is be-
ginning, to wither, the sweet-ciove1
seems TO be doing just as we'll as ever
pasture. had four cows on it, and
I had to turn the horses out on II
as well in Jordsr to keep It down
IT isn't as good for grazing when II
gets coarse and stalky. The cows
are. fond Of sweet clover, and khave
never found anything that will make
them milk better.
Yes, 1 raise corn. too. I ave 9
si1o. and wouldn't be without It. ]
this year, only ten acres. But til
as line a stand ofrcorn as you might
care to see. We can raise just al
good corn here as they can raise any.
where in the country
The visitor asked MT. Veitch how
he had managed to keep on raising
good wheat crops for 90 many years
and he replied: (
Head Work Needed.
.eWell, wheat farming is Hk6 every.
.slhing else. It makes q great deal o.
difference how you do It. "A great
deal Of planning ID Necessity In or,
der to keep on raising wheat. The
way I have done It fis nat anything
out of the ordinary, sIsguess. ~.
ways have done plenty q susatae,
notatnes In my rotation. like t.
ret my land pl0wed az early Ia thu
fall as can get ate It. am par1
owner In threshinE machine, ans