Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-09
as long as it lasts. In speaking OF
his feeding Senator Cumming said:
Best Ensilage Used.

500 'NS SuA~ .
Best Ensilage Used.
"Milch cows have to have the best
of feed in order to do we'll. and I pro-
vide the best | can get for mine. The
finest thing I have aver gotten hold
of in the way of corr is q. white dent
that Joe Croy of Minnesota Point
raises. I bought my seed from him..
have been raising it now for the
past four or five years and have never
had a failure. I use it all for ensi-
lage. 1t is tall Of corn and makes
heavily n 1 have saved ten bush
els of it for seed for this next year.
Il have tried sweet clover ensilage
and find it to be satisfactory. The
cows like it. It makes nice sweet en-
silage and there is this advantage
about it that it can be put up early
and fed out before the corn is ready.
and helps out h pastures when they
are short.
, alfalfa and millet make the best
combination for hay I find. We put
up about 125 o n for the cows. The
horses get corn fodder n oats and
are allowed al the straw they want.
In addition to hay and ensilage the
mich cows get bran n shorts and
oil meal.
II find the best way to raise al
falfa for seed is to clip it with the
mower before it is halt grown, and
let he clipping lie, giving the second
crop a better chance Then when
the seed natures cut it with a mower
and make it into punches. 1t may
then be threshed with an ordinary
threshing machine. I threshed out
nine bushels this way last fall.
Eyes. I have a threshing machine,
and do some threshing for others az
well as my own One great evil in
the threshing machine business is
that you have to charge more for
threshlng a poor crop than you do
for threshing a good n 1t doesn't
pay anybody, and nobody is satisfied.
And yet what can you do?
Excellcn. Buildings.
The milk house is close enough TO
the barn for convenience in handling
the milk! 1t is thoroughly clean.
sweet smelling and sanitary. 1t is UNI
usual in that it has soft water and
plenty of it for cleaning the milk ves-
sells. Az the milk is sold only whole
sale this lessons the labor of handling
many bottles. The equipment is
good. with power for driving the ma
chinery. and a boiler supplies steam.
All that is lacking IS electric light. A
small stove heats the place in ex-
ITSInSiy EOiu WEATHER. Inefe Is eX-
cellent drainage from the milk house.
which like the barn is on the top Of a
gentle hill. This slope, by the way,
has two advantages as far as the. barn
Is concerned: it gives a warder sta
BILE to the cattle. and allows for a.
driveway ntoithe loft. The wagon
loads Of hay can be driven directly
into the hay NOW. and the sings
draw the hay back into place. The
hay NOV has "a capacity of 1875 tons
with granary room for 1000 bushels
of grain.
| There are Fl Chester White hogs
on the place. They get the skim
milk. They ave a clover and alfalfa
pasture of about -four Gre A barrel
on wheels is used to supply them with
water.
Some forty turkeys and 100 Ply
mouth Rocks make up the poultry,
and there is a good poultry house for
them.
The yard was very neat and order
~. The machinery was all housed.
The house which was built in 1880
Is now all modern. heated with hot
water. 1t has our cisterns. 1t is a
large house with about II rooms, and
was built by Thomas Nesbit. from
whom Mr.. Cumming bought tbs farm.
The Cumming farm contains 400
acres and is approximately seven
miles from East Grand Forks.