The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-10

FAR N INCOME.
/ WALTSER SAYS
Combined With Sweet Clover
and Alfalfa, Crop Is Main
stay of Livestock
JRGES GOOD ROTATION
fore Important to North Da-
kota Than Any Other In
dividual Crop

Corn, king in North Dakota, is the
est possible balance wheel in the
yricultural scheme of the state, II.
Walster, of the state agricultural
,llege Of Fargo, declared in Bis
| arck last night.
Walster was a speaker at the ban
let given exhibitors at the State
crn Show being held here. Other
,eakers at the banquet were Ralr;
udd, president of the Great North
n railway, George Shafer, COVER.
,r-elect of North Dakota and Wal
1r Maddox, present governor of
ie state.
Corn, above all other crops, is
lie one great reliance Of livestock
lsbandry," the speaker declared.
Of course must be supplantcd by
veet clover and alfalfa. Corn and
gumes are the landmarks Of sue
ssful livestock husbandry. Live
ock fed ration made up exclusive
from the corn plant thrive and
produce better than if the ration is
:clusively from the wheat plant or
e oat plant.
"Of course, no one lis recommends
& such ration but the facts are
at from the point of view of its
ltritive effects the corn plant is
lique. Corn can do more things
/ a North Dakota farm than any
! her crop.
Has Many Uses
Through the proper choice Of var
ties, corn may be hoggcd off,
mbed off, shecpcd off or cattled off
r a period Of three months-from
ugust Is to November Is. If some
the big corn folks in the state
ould quit trying to initiate Iowa or
ruth Dakota, and begin to grow
me of the really early varieties Of
m our livestock could begin to
ssture this, the greatest of all
asses, by August l.
"Corn fodder is an all around fod-
r; we never have enough of it..
Urn silage, preserved in trench, pit
upright silo brings June succu-
nee to DEFENDERS dry ration.
practically all forms of livestock
e the better for having had ac-
IS to it. The corn crop can be
FRIED over in farm storage. Since
income from the corn crop comes
directly through feeding it to live
ock we. can carry our surplus at
me in either a trench silo or in a
oder stack protected by several
owed burrows until the inevitable
oughty season invites US to tap our
serves of good wholesome livestock
ed.
SiIOs Good Investment
Il take it that such trenches and
en- stacks are good collateral and
i probably not need the protec-
IN Of a law such as suggested by
,vernor-elect Shafer for the pro-
,tlon of home stored wheat and its
INVERSION into mobile collateral.
'ur-legged beasts are mighty ef-
:lent mobilizers Of corn collateral.
you have only to change one let
to convert corn into coin but no
can juggle the word wheat into
aking coin A good many jug
srs have been trying that act in
e last few months, but / have vet
hear OF a satisfactory solution.
Il do not expect corn to displace
leat as the leading crop of the
ate but l do expect it to be used
such way as to help stabilize in
greater degree than now obtains
net income from the Individual
rm. The nature Of the plant. the
:thods Of its production and the d.
rsity Of schemes which can be
ed in its preservation and in the
ilization and the wide range of
rieties from which to choose-all
nbine to make this imperial crop
!. best possible balance wheel in
At delicately adjusted mechanism |
II , permanent agriculture in
nth Dakota.
Good Combination Urged
Corn, however, is not the only
lance wheel in that mechanism.
ng Corn must be welded to Queen
falfa and her summer sister Sweet
over. Even this bigamous mar
lge cannot make our soils fruitful
q our pocketbooks bulge unless the
IT known methods Of farm man
ement and marketing are prac.
ed. The marketing problem is,
IRE than most of us are willing to
init, . soil management problem,
no marketing scheme devisable
ever make an infertile filthy soil
oduce q merchantable crop Of high
atty. Our soils are fundament-
y fertile but most of them are so
ed with weeds and diseases that
j only hope for them is in the