The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1922-10-11
Effect of Manure Is
Felt for Nine Years

Yields of corn and grain nave been
increased from 10 to 100 percent with
consequent decrease in cost of pro-
duction through the use CT manure
on farms of the Armenia 4 Sharon
Land Company during the past nine
years, according to A. E. Cure, farm
superintendent for the company.
'In 1913 one-half of an eighty-five
acre field was well manured," relates
Mr.. Cure. "The entire field was fall
plowed and from then on handled the
same. In 1914 corn was planted on
the entire field and the manured
part yielded fifteen bushels more
corn to the acre than the unmannred
part. In 1915 the entire field was
sown to barley and manured part
yielded nine bushels more to the acre
than the unmanured part. In 1916
the manured part of the field yielded
five bushels more Of wheat to the
acre than the unmanured part. The
crops even up to the present time
show up better on the manured part
of the field than on the unmandred,
! although no manure has been placed
on the field since 1918.
"Section rs was the home farm of
Armenia and Sharon Land Company
and has always been manured. All the
the manure from tie horse barn has
been spread on this farm and in ad-
diton the manure from the sheep barn.
where from two to six thousand sheep
were fed every winter for number
of years. For the past eight OF ten
years from $50 to $50 ewes have been
kept on the farm. The sheep were
sold two years ago and at the present
time about one hundred head of cattle
are handled. In 1917 carload of
heifers was purchased on the South
St. Paul market This carload con-
sisted of 27 head Of common COWS
showing shorthorn breeding. In 1918
an additional 18 head were pur-
chased at South St. Paul. A first
class Shorthorn bull is used and the
steer calves for the market as two
I year olds. The heifer calves have
been kept to increase the herd and
they have just started to Gull out the
females, two of the poorest being
sold last year. Several cows have been
sold from the herd as milk cows, two
of them bringing $50 each last year.
In 1921 the corn crop on Section 25
yielded 60 bushels to the acre. In
1922 the average wheat yield on this
farm was rs bushels, the average
yield of barley was so bushels and of
oats, 80 bushels. We have a good corn
crop on the farm this year, although
it has not yet been harvested. How
ever, good crop of silage is being
put up.
"The yields this year on this farm
are no doubt more than double the
yields on other company farms where
the crop rotation praticed is little,
if any, different. Possibly little
better farming has been practiced on
this farm, but no better than should
be practiced on every Cass County
farm. The practice of packing the
soil after the plow in the fall has
been followed for good mary years
and early fall blowing has been pract-
iced wherever possible. This has
resulted in much wild oats and other
weeds such as pigeon grass being
killed out. The farm is very clean, be-
ing practically free from wild oats,
pigeon grass and other novious weeds,
The land is giving light discing as
early as possible in the spring follow
ed by lots of narrowing, the land be-
ing narrowed four or five times In
the spring before the crop is sown."