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Newspaper
Golden Valley Chronicle
Location
Beach, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
6
The Golden Valley Farmers section invites neighbors to submit articles on grain growing gardening or stock raising for publication at no charge. Send readable contributions on one side of the paper to Farm Department Golden Valley Chronicle Reach North Dakota.
Alfalfa should be cut for hay as shoots appear at the crown for all animals except horses. For horses, let it grow slightly longer but not enough to injure the first crop. Best to cut in the evening before dew or morning after dew. Heavier crops may use a fedder in late forenoon or early afternoon after cutting. With good drying weather hay can be raked and cocked the same day, though it looks green. If partly cured in the swath and cooked green, moisture keeps leaves damp and both dry out together. More leaves are saved and hay is better colored and more nutritious with this method. Large-scale curing uses machinery, swath and windrow curing, but leaves must be preserved. Alfalfa can be stacked or stored similarly to clover. if too green, musty hay results.
The piece argues that Democratic free trade policies push American capital abroad to market in the United States. It cites dried egg plants in China and Canadian cattle agencies, imports of farm equipment, and Argentine meat packers profiting from a free list. It warns free trade invites foreign competition and capital flight, hurting American workers and farming.
Gas can form in silos during filling and after. four patients at Athens Ohio State Hospital Farm entered a silo to tramp silage and were overcome. A lantern test warned of danger. five were pulled out ten minutes later but none survived. Silage had settled three feet overnight, five and a half feet below the door. Do not enter pits before silage is run in and test with a lantern for carbonic gas.
Box elder aphids bloom this spring across the north central region, infesting many box elder trees. Eggs laid last fall hatch with new leaves, multiplying rapidly. They feed by sucking sap, not foliage, and are resistant to poisons, requiring kerosene emulsion sprayed as a wet foliage coating to kill them.
The Nebraska Station reports that growth requires more grain and protein than fattening. A ration of shorts to corn supports muscle and bone development, with skim milk and tankage as supplements. Ground small grains and alfalfa or rape aid bone growth. corn completes the diet for pigs reaching 175 pounds.
After foaling, give the mare lukewarm water. Disinfect the foaling stall with five percent carbolic acid. Light lime under bedding helps prevent naval trouble. Re-disinfect stall and floor after arrival. Disinfect the colt's navel with five percent lysol or similar. Grease the navel area with vaseline or fresh lard before applying disinfectant.
Farmers near Tennvik organize a corporation named Tennvik Farmers Elevator Company with $10,000 capital, 400 shares of $25 each, aiming to operate by the fall harvest. A separate Food Service Company is formed to take over Fargo Produce, with $10,000 capital and directors A. R. Walz, John B. Johnson of Fargo, and Michael Walz of Perham, Minnesota.
A Williston horseman A L Burdick letters North Dakota Commissioner R F Flint praising local horses as superior and in demand. He argues heavy draft horses deserve focus, noting North Dakota plains produce hardier stock with greater stamina than eastern breeds and that climate shapes quality.
St Paul milling company forms with 150 000 capitalization to build a 1000 barrel daily flour mill on the upper levee. J F Diefenbach heading the new concern cites bids for milling machinery and a contract to be let soon. Incorporators include W A Miller M W Thatcher and Diefenbach, all prominent in banking and milling.
Halliday notes Hugh McLaughlin formerly of Hayes Mont has bought the Halliday hotel and plans to move the old building to the rear and construct a two story modern hostlery. Other items include St Peter entering the state penitentiary for violating North Dakota prohibition laws and an Odd Fellows grand lodge venue discussion in Wahpeton.
New York June 9 Thaw’s trial to determine insanity postponed to June 16 by Supreme Justice Hendrick awaiting Court of Appeals decision on state appeal. Langdon North Dakota June 8 Prof Will C Rabe named Langdon High principal and athletic director from Upper Iowa University Fayette Iowa. New York June 8 Justice Department agents begin probe into Gustave Stahl antecedents tied to Lusitania guns. Stahl not found at boarding house. officials say they obtained what they wanted.
In Minot North Dakota on June 8 Ward county officials destroyed about 1200 dollars worth of whiskey and beer seized in local railroad yards. The owner was allowed to claim his property but would face arrest for violating prohibition law. Another seizure of 13 cases of beer and 10 cases of whiskey will be destroyed in coming days if unclaimed.
Bismarck June 9. State treasurer May 1915 transactions show balance on hand April 30 1915 1 394 433 09 total May 1915 collections 311 162 00 1 705 595 09 total May 1915 payments 1 063 523 09 balance on hand May 31 1915 compared with May 1914 payments were 302 648 less and collections greater by 68 410 02.
Killdeer North Dakota June 9. In belief that Killdeer will be a real city within a few years half dozen local men have purchased at $75 an acre forty acres of land surrounding the townsite. This will be divided into five acre suburban homes will be.
Dickinson North Dakota June 9 seventy five quarters of state and university land were sold at auction drawing about five hundred farmers. It was Stark county s first sale totaling two hundred twenty five thousand dollars at an average price per acre around ten dollars with the top bid at thirty dollars and thirty cents. Most buyers were older settlers seeking adjoining tracts leased for two decades.
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