The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 18

PAGE EIGHTEEN (Ry Georve F./Will, general chair-'eoming «pf the question. of ‘seed e Corn will be cula important one for the r rticularly every * aave had fi e worst crop sea- & worst our ilure} But t riene It has in fact crop year within the pioneers and the ne of corn that we have ¢ the wn no eed, an one good thing that this t disastrous season has brought is m a i state, en th weel,s, and even under the continued c heat and drouth it finally did pro- duce some crop where even the grass f greatest native crop, a crop which was acclimated here in our fo tate for us more than 200 years| our heritage! ndan, Arikara and Hidat- s, and ‘so long as we use them: and varieties of their blood we can he reasonably assured of 2 crop. In the several centuries that these} hidians practiced agriculture in our, state they never had a complete fail- ure and never lost the seed of a @ one of their thirteen varieti of nearly all of whieh we still in Burleigh county have been corn successfully for some and in svite of the gloomy nnouncements of many authorities in the past that the Northwest would never be a corn country, it has finally been fully demonstrated that it not only is a real corn country, but also. that corn is our very safest crop. Production on Increase North Dakota is the past few y has produced as high as 38 million bushéls of corn in one pear. A county agent told me reeentiy that he had mude a corn survey of his county and I that there was an average of 21 acres of corn to each farm in But he found also very of 50, 1 a hundred| farms on} which no corn at all is being raised. | As a matter of fact the same condition Is all over the state, and when e that fact into consideration a corn production of 40 million bushels coninares very favorably with the pro- duction in the Corn Belt states. Even in Montana the corn pi duction has d to nearly 10 million bushels AEAKE Canadian provinces noreh of us ure gtowing many thousands of neres of corn, pf corn at an aver pr ss tots about $30, (000,000 which would |¢ bout $50 aniece for each person in our state, Our production $ value of something $17,000,000 or about $28 per ita for every person in the state, A very substantial addition to the income of each family that would be, in spite of the fact that it was ® most unfavorable crop year. But at present only a small number com- pacnively, are receiving this added income, and it.certainly is not going to the fellow who raises no corn, at rmer is, afier all, a user of! capital, an owner of a business, an investor in maehinery, an employer of Congequently everything that for cheaper production will add to his profits just as much as it would to those of a shoc manu- facturer or the proprietor of any other manufacturing business. The farmer then will profit through in- creased production and saving in time and labor by the judicious em- ployment of the best machinery and nt help and by u: the best proven methods and rais the best and surest crops. Corn Raising a N: Dakota has the reputation a small grain state, but we only in part, We most in oni know tod: ern t ly on the basis of nd diversified farming, ~ Even in the eastern section a culti- vated crop is a necessity in sma!l grain production, and in the rest of, the state not only is a cultivated crop A necessity but even more necessary is a sure and dependable feed crop. No other crop meets the require. _ ments for either area in as Prati in North, Dakota with the greates: we corn must be raised. | r Corn production can never, of be as great as that on the best fccas of the central states, but even today the average per. acre for =the state is as great as that of Kan- sas. and when we take into account a comparison of land values it ap- + pears that we can really produce corn es just as cheaply as they can in Iowa. he average yield per acre for the state of Iowa is 36 bushels while ours in a good year has run as high bushels. The difference of 25 per cent is more than counter- balanced by the difference between * $200 and $25 land. But if we are to raise corn profit- ably we must raise it right, and treat “it asa real crop rather than as an afterthought. The first essential is pearly. pissing. that is to say, some- tim: y 20. No corn was ever damaged by early planting when “the proper varicties were used, and four years out of five the carly planted corn is by far the best. A “frost in spring will not seriously in- jure the crop, but a frost in Sep- ptember will entirely sarge the late ““erop. In pl: ual A trey indi. in planting under ordinary condi- ns The chee row planter is by pari eek-|/atatute. It is the only terminal ele- place in the ha mu and rldamaged. Cultiv Proper jand will fatten on what ‘leave, and sheep will of cour ¢ most important element s ficient moistur. icid_ of corn in th Dai onr state, Montan by the dor sted with unuxual care tested and retested After th ding comes the cultiva ion which hag perhaps as mach to lo with the final yield as any other hing. Harrow early, before the corn ppears and harrow until it is, inches high, the n oucan, And cultivate ea all the weeds! Your erop w othe benefit, and it apparent be next year’s mre is matured handling it. mean the dif and loss, And the corn he problen handling y profit crop com erence betwe there are several profitable ways of handling the crop, depending on how you wish to use it. Corn is utilized in a number of different ways and each way may be made profitable, Hogging off the Fields Perhaps one of the easiest ‘and least expensive ways of utilizing ahs corn is to hog it off. Livestock be practically finished without handling the cro cattle and sheep profitably fattened by to a field of corn Ju; maturity. Where they have ¢ cess to water and a little patch of alfalfa and sweet clover while they are feeding on the corn, remark: results in fattening ¢an’be obta in a very short time. Hogs may run in the same field with the in this Bg ple vest a corn crop more complete it ean be done in any other wa For the dairyman the silo is the! in. feeding and corn has been found to be the best crop with which to fill it. in Alberta and Susk:tehewan the ex-| periment stations advise the use of corn as being more able than sunflower for . Th est silage | is that which is not harves ill the corn has reached the stage; ut that period there rreatest amount of fe 4 the feed value is at is much better to add water while putting the dry corn into the si than to use eorn which contains suf- but lacks fe value. Since near! best silage corn it corn makes better jage than corn and will also give a much higher yield of actual food elements after the water is deducted. There are other ways of harvesting and utilizing the whole corn plant besides ae tine it in the silo, which “The people of North Dakota are particularly interested in how the terminal market and terminal elevator at Grand Forks serving and can serve the farmers, produ: grain and the local elevators in the market- ing or olaae. of wheat and other! grain.” H. A. Bronson, counsel | for the North Dakota Terminal Ex- change, in a recent address. “The terminal clevator is owned and operated by the state pursuant to a constitutional amendment adopted vote of the people in November, pursuant to laws subse- enacted. On July 1, 1925, riminal elevator became a terminal elevator by North Dakota within the state. It has. a sto! . capacity for about two mil- Non bushels of grain and can handle {many times that amount in a sea- 1} son's turnover. This terminal eleva- yy for is now a licensed federal ware- Y |house with to i vato; ual} is of its capacit: ral law with a licensed | woighmenter in” charge, and. issuing 4] federal’ watehoure receipts to thone who: store grain in it. “A little over a year ago # terminal arog iso. of the crop. is the cutting of the corn at wh way of hand! fodder out be r| very much gi y| adapted varieties of corn TERMINAL MARKET AT GRAND FORKS SERVES BOTH FARMERS AND LOCAL ELEVATORS, H. A. BRONSON STATES {terminal about five million bushels was ara Phere at the North) NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD REALIZE VALUE OF CORN, AMERICA’S GREATEST NATIVE CROP, SAYS GEORGE F. WILL, PRESIDENT OF STATE CORN SHOW ASSOCIATION involve the cutting and binding A very common practice | to the; ts best n this 0 the stock conomical i it is to run it through n the ears will readily come turity in the shack while will be preserved at thrown 1 mor , but The shredder turns t shredded fine th practically no we t th same time she ty for the crib shredder, and it ¢ te ked out re we fed ti not part sally picked from the the fields of recent been about th thod of handling no. the ‘GEORGE F. WILL crop owing to the very high prices demanded by expert pickers, ranging as high as 20 cents and 25 cents per bushe ides board and lodging. In the years, however, the mechanical picker has been so per: ected that it does very satisfacto ‘ork on all of our northern corn in- cluding even the flints and does it a cost of 4 to 10 cents per bushel the field is elean and the corn become lodged. n the field there is un opportunity tor a hei ab cable wr sheep to feed on the stalk eaves to excellent advanta he standing stalks are not utilized thus there f course a very con- siderable reduction in the return | from your corn crop. | The most important feature in suc- sful corn growing h been _ left last, that is the selection of the i Th unt vari whe nd lilinols corn, still a tend not really ra There is, ho y to feel that w sing corn unless aising one of the big, handsome dent in southern |sorts which are South Dakota northern Towa, and th costing us na ‘good dea vields every year. The state experiment station winter a publication on grown, ind Minn bulletin demonstrates conclusively r value of our sacly| both as| regards yield and feeding quality.| Just remember that the early flints nd semi-dents have in them blood of the old Indian varieties whieh have been raised in North Dakota for| gi centuries, that they are resistant to cold, to drouth, to hail and to wind in about one half million bushels of grain for persons other than the state mill. Within a year the North Dakota~ terminal exchange has handled through the North Dakota of grain. Can Learn Protein Content | “The North Dakota terminal is now completely equipped as a terminal ither for the selling of grain upon the market or for its storage. There! is a federal inspector there, licensed by the federal government, who can determine the grade of all grain und its dockage, stopped at the North Da- kota termin There are two labora- y temperam f best suit his | Minnesota «ve through with the planting of Iowa ¥ | this state, a loss that occurs THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a far greater degree than @ dent varieties, that they make in weather which is tod cold forthe dents to grow at all, that they always make some ripe corn and increase the yi cording to conditions and that will recover and praduce some corn after a hail storm. which would completely destroy the dents. Select Variety Best Suited With the introduction “of a new corn binder which cass corn at the ton of the ground and of two pick-) nes whieh will gather even i growing flint, the argu that the hardy varieties xr ard to harvest has lost most of its weight. Every man must of course i leah: for himself just whut of corn are best suited to the particnloe lockl and soil condi- | ons on his farm; there may be small fis ove fate state where the dents the ie pure be most profitable sorts, | but each corn grower should experi: ment and find out for himaelt ust should govern himself in his not by how pretty an ear ise, but by how heavy and re at yield he can get., No one can presume to ‘dictate to North Dakota farmer want variet; y corn to plant, nor ean ene say what variety of corn suits him tand he select will yield more for you isan any other sort just because more for me. Different varieties are adapted to different soit conditions and conditions of moisture, and we might almost say to aifterent | ts in the grower, for on the biggest possible yield = where another wants the easiest var- y to handle, There are already in existence a number of varieties of ve: | the sieve.—Tit-Bits, ing been ascertained. If the farmer in question Gesires te ship this wheat himself, he can consign it to any {member of the terminal exthatigs Just | jes he would to any one in Minne- apolis or Duluth, and at this terminal it may be inspected, for its grade, testea for: its prot and put on the market, for. sele; .if no satisfuc- tory bid is received, at the termini the farmer | can ship it forward if he wiches, ant without aAditional cost, either to the Minneapolis, or to the ‘,zuuth market, ashe may select. In [other words the terminus auecs ty advantage of three. markets instead of just one,.or the farmer can have ‘the local elevator to do this for him. If the farmers want to stere their wheat in. the federal warehouse here, jit will be tested for its protein eon- |tent and, with the federal warehouse receipt, he will be given a certificate showing. what, the protein content of his wheat is. “The question might be further asked, ‘what can this terminal do fot the loeal elevators of the state?’ Last year, in accordance with sworn Anetta of the elevators of this state, 1,749 in number, there was on hand these elevators in this state about million bushels of grain on Oc- j tober 31, 19255 at the same time these elevators had outstanding about 42 [million bushels of grain represented by storage receipts issued. That means that nine million bushels of grain had gone outside of this state. although it was supposed to be stored in these local elevators. It means further that these local elevators could pay te the storage receipt holders less money for their storage grain, because the grain stored out- side of the state, if stored. had to be stored on a grade basis and not on the basis of its protein content; thus, jpremium worth of grain was to that extent lost. Local elevators in this state can store in the North Dakota terminal elevator their surplus wheat jwhich they must store somewhere telse than in their toeal house. They store in a special bin at the North Dakota terminal if they so de- sire. Local elevators, too, can con- sign their grain to the North Dakota {terminal and thus obtain the advant- ge of three markets instead of one, jif they will; thus become in closer ntact with a market near at hand; nd thus be able to reflect back to the farmer a larger value, and a \lurger amount of premium worth for |the farmer's grain.” ———— WRONG LADY: Police Sergeant: I think we've foand your missing wife. dgpege Pepk: What-does she say? “Nothing.’ ig.” “That's not | tf | honea iy wite.”—Answers, jin — ALWAYS USEFUL Foreman—Murphy, how about | car- some more bricks? ryi AY lurphy—I ein’t feelit ¥ nor. I'm trembling all ove: Foreman—Well, then er caey with iota fuv?- corn of hardy blood and with many |= food qualities; from these with a yeariS or so of experimentation the grower, ‘an soon select one or two kinds which needs. Of the varieties to select from perhaps the best are| Falconer, Northwestern Dent, Pioneer, White Dent, Square Deal Yellow Dent, Dakota White Flint, Gehu Yellow Flint and Burleigh ‘County Mixed Flint. For the most favorable corn land the state Rustler White Dent, , and perhaps such late Mercer and King Philip satisfaction. In many sec- local growers have developed varieties of their own which are well te dand often pais adapted zeclimated and often better adapted brought in from a distance. The mat ter of corn varieties is still in a state! of development in our state and much improved varieties will probably be! b and introduced in the years to es founded on our hardy and giving us increasingly ier yields and better quality. ‘There is nothing in climate or rain- fall to prevent every farm in North Dakota, mentions, and southern Al- berta, AS of corn cach year, either for silage, rough feed or mature crop and the idly approaching when that; ‘eage will be planted over the whole’ vast area. When it is, the $28 per person which our present corn crop s is goingto be very greatly increased to the advantage of every inhabitant of our state. to the shipper not only in freight but in feed values. Last year over four | million of bushels of dockage on |wheat alone was shipped out of the state, all at a cost to the producers’ in freight and without any payment for feed value. “There is little question now that North Dakota wheat of the hard spring variety is premium wheat averaging high in protein quailty. In a ease before our Boatd of Rail- ners last spring it was established without contt yn that for four years past the average tein content of North Dakota wheat has been slightly over 12 per cent, and further that such wheat on the average was worth, based on last season’s premium prices, an average of 10 cents per bushel over the card price quotations. How it Helps Farmer “The question mi ‘What can this terminal farmer who produces the. gtain?’ rate tories,\one a private laboratory, an- other at the state mill which will de- termine the protein content of any and all grain upon which 2 test is de- sheed, and this either upap a car load or upon a six ounce sample sent for 1, these agencies existing at the terminal, are attempt- ing to build up a market for our North Dakota wheat and our North Dakota grain here within our state; and, further te build up @ recogni- | fair tion of North Dakota: hard, 378 wheat for its premium be tae secure for the producers of this ne, and the 1 ‘elevators eee ad handie such alps iy ee | prt and a farmer in Benson county who ex. pects to have from his farm about 3000. bushels of grain That's blag ee ee nant : son county stoo ly. in pro: tein content for its wheat, a something over 12.5 per cent 4 tein. This farmer can take sample of his wheat. in in advance s0 as to get how the protein content wheat will be, If he has into valaey hangers uch. day the North rahe, git s eo EE COMPLETE POWER LINE CIRCUIT IN WESTERN PART OF STATE HAS BEEN “BUILT BY LOCAL COMPANY THIS YEAR conn ure-ef this plant. Beulah making wieh: network bf power lines gency, interlating, ‘thé territory from marck ak far west as the Little Mis- souri river, the Hughes Electric com- peal this year has brought practically pletion the construction of ete power line circuit. A hew power station genetnting 3,000 kilowatts hus been' completed at Beulah and forms another link in the chain of power plants throughout the Hughes company territory. New and improved condensing turbines whieh will generate 38,000 volts are n fcat- Bismarck, Dickinson, Mandan and are nit connected with finishing of several new high voltage lines this year and a distinct advant- age will accruc from this connection, possible in ease of emer. marcas OCTOBER 30, 1926 | for aly on@ Of ‘the plants fo ft tip the power “load” in case of breaks. If line is broken in one place, wer can be fed from the pther lirection. | Lines Join at Twin Buttes | + All main power lines eome togéther at Twin Butt from there spread out three ways to Mandan and Bi: marek, Dickinson and Beulah, wi other feeder lines tap them at vari-| ous points along the way. Projects for this year included the construction of a line into Beutah, the connection of this line with Dick- ingon, the construction of lines to’ Elgin on the north braneh and Bel- field on the south and the consteue-' tion of a line from Hagen to Killdeer,! In 1927 the company hopes to work east and west on the south branch es the First Guaranty Bank Bismarck, N; D. F. A. LAHR, President E. V. LAHR, Vice President J. P. WAGNER, Cashier A Personal Invitation We went to titi our ianialiad invitation to everyone to visit our town during the North Dakota State Corn Show Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13 Peeesaepaeapoaty (Phe eiatonieer Tap ERR haa | try eu a possibly east from Bismarck. Brant lines for the use of ttre also included in the program. Because prices of transformers have been lowered and their efficiency in- creased, nearly every farmer will be able to have electricity on his land at a nominal cost, New instruments now cost less than $150.and can’ be con neeted directly to the high line, line ean be strung to the farm a mile or two away, and the entire cost will no 7s, than that of a home power plant. With oa new transformers, ore can stepped down” from enreass, ol F volts oe either 110 or 220 volts for|farm ui rieity Available With etertione in the charges for current and with 24-hour service, cheap electricity will be available to farmers, factor! stores and homes. More intensive development of the natural resources of the Slope ot iso be possible. Hughes is sident of the” nized Hughes Electric which Pd Sue ludes the Deiter Be paces 5° pany of resi- oreania mation, whieh has ftises in Bismarck. betes A o Hog i ion, A dent. of th its main o i \ ovendauervevaceenarvasnvaceeenucocoanencnoneeaunendos cenatenesrvunsesannnvancavenvauacenuauonecnnsernsesonsnnuavnnaseaesuaneseanenenuccanonuneeseaoansneagnostcatty. * j ‘ y ; ‘44g ,