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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
7
The text argues that farm output must match market demand and be produced efficiently in quantity and uniform quality. It highlights milking machines as a key aid, enabling a single farmer to care for twenty to forty cows and suggesting collaboration among neighboring farmers to standardize products and secure stable markets.
Fragmentary text discusses a farmer converting grain farming to dairy and live stock farming. Mentions acres and farming factors and hints at a helper or guide titled Farm to Stock and Home.
North Dakota Farm Information Service notes seed corn yields. One bushel home grown seed can raise next year’s crop by at least 35 bushels. selecting and caring for seed corn is emphasized. Also recommends rye for pasture, hog cholera serum use timing, avoiding screenings for hogs, and optimal corn siloing timing.
The notice urges feeding chicks with a bread and milk soak and providing coarse sand for chick digestion. It advocates more small flocks on well tilled farms, claiming such combinations rarely disappoint their owners and stressing opportunities for beginners.
Unfavorable summer conditions lower milk yields due to flies and heat while winter dairying proves more profitable with cows freshening in fall. The piece notes feed costs, barn comfort, and the value of manure and skim milk, urging use of purebred sires to boost butterfat and offshoot calves.
A reader asserts selecting and grading seed grain can yield at least 500 percent profit by storing the heaviest plump kernels for seed. Careful cleaning, grading, and separate threshing of top grain on farms could boost next year’s yield by about one dollar per acre, with seed saved free from weed seeds.
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