Advantages of Dry-Farming in Semiarid Regions
In semiarid regions dry farming offers advantages over irrigated or humid farming. Benefits include lower land costs under homesteading, milder climate with fewer moisture related diseases, fewer weather delays, and better road access for market seasons. Crops such as grains and certain vegetables can ripen with less waste, with some crops offering superior seed quality and overall steadier returns through proper rotation and moisture conservation.
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F. W. Mendell
North Dakota Farms Report Shows Crop Rotation Profits
The Ninth Annual Report from North Dakota State Demonstration Farms details rotation practices on 23 farms. It records average production costs of 9.13 per acre versus 17.49 revenue, yielding a net 8.36 per acre with crops including corn, hard and durum wheat, oats, barley, clover, timothy, potatoes, alfalfa, millet, and more. The report notes the data come from the North Dakota Agricultural College station.
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North Dakota
Dakoti Eres
Agricultural College
N. D
Get Your Corn Profit From The Silo
A North Dakota crop note urges building a silo to maximize corn yields and preserve fodder. It notes corn may struggle this year unless weather stays favorable and frost delays impact, but a silo can improve returns regardless of ripening.
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North Dakota
Business PUNCHES by Warren Candler on reformers and demagogues
Bishop Warren Candler attacks reformers as revolutionaries and calls wealth creation part of religion. He condemns political probes for producing pus over purity and warns that narrow commerce lacks international outlook, likening demagogues to vultures preying on victims.
Harvesting Spring Wheat Methods and Stacking Guide
Washington July 10 reports on harvesting and threshing spring wheat across 17 million acres in the northern Great Plains. The Farmers' Bulletin 678 explains cutting, stacking, and thrashing with binders to maximize yield, grain quality, and efficiency, including caping shocks, stacking patterns, and when to thresh from the shock or after sweating.
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Washington, D. DC
Dakotas
Minnesota
Great Plains
U. S
Nebraska
James River Valley
South Dakota
Pang
Division of Publications
Washington, D. C
Nebraska oncean sea floor fossils and flying dragons
A guidebook description notes the bluffs south of the Platte near North Bend consist of loess and Benton shale from ancient sea floors. Fossil oysters and Mosasaurus bones mark saltwater conditions, while extinct land and air creatures including 18 foot wingspanned pterodactyls illustrate historic, dramatic environmental change.
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Nebraska
Platte River
North Bend
Nebr
Benton
Cattle Thief Found Guilty In Bowbells Court
In Bowbells North Dakota on July 10 the district court convicted Sam Schultz of cattle theft and sentenced him to three and a half years in the state penitentiary. The State also dismissed the case against Mrs. Gus Erickson. Albert Bejan pleaded guilty to keeping a gambling place. Ray Shepard was found guilty of operating a bar without a license and received 30 days in jail with sentence suspended. Carl Jensen seeks a venue change for a rape case set for Minot.
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Bowbells
N. D
State of
North Dakota
Sam Schultz
Brooks
Schultz
Heath
Ed Drinkwater
Hank Smart
Anna Johnson
Thompson and Marshall
van Slickle
First State Bank
Gus Erickson
Albert Bejan
Ray Shepard
Northgate
Iil
Carl Jensen
J. J. Coyle
Minot
Library notes on circulating books and stories
The library announces several works ready for circulation including The Right Stuff by Ian Hay a tale of a Scotsman’s training in statesmanship and courtship. Also The World's Greatest Short Stories a Sharwin Cody collection with Kipling de Maupassant Poe Dickens pieces, and Margot the Court Shoemaker's Rebirtd set in Louis XIV era France for poor readers.
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Ian Hay
Atlantic
Sharwin Cody
Kipling
de Maupassant
Poe
Dickens
Margot
M. E. Mann
France
Louis XIV
Lumber for Sale in Forts on Fot to Di Dick Vance
Lumber for sale described as 75000 rest of Caepamood lumber in good condition. Priced per 1000 feet with figures 10, 312, 1 fits and 3B. Contact Forts on Fort to Di Dick Vance for details.
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Dick Vance
New York
Twin Cities
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Warren Candler
Georgia
Sao
U. S. Dept. OF Agriculture
Piper
U.S
Deering
Our Cleaning Department
Kronicks & Waldren
Dyers and Cleaners
Minneapolis
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