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 MORTGAGE IU01\EY-- 



Hogs are depended upon for rent and 

 mortgage money on most corn belt Tarms. 

 They are a reasonably sure crop except for 

 one thing — HOG CHOLERA. 



Thinlclng farmers have learned to Insure 

 their hogs against cholera inexpensively 

 by vaccinating with fresh, potent FARM 

 BUREAU SERUM. 



RIGHT 



When p!gs are vacdna'I'ed while young the 

 cost is astonishingly small. Don't neglect 

 to protect your pig crop, it pays. 



Patronage dividends paid farm Bureau members only. 



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Ray Doneghue Resigns 



Ray C. Doneghue, farm adviser with 

 the McDonough County Farm Bureau 

 since March 15, 1919, resigned August 

 1. Only two of the state's 99 farm ad- 

 visers have been on the job longer than 

 Mr. Doneghue. 



The McDonough County Farm Bu- 

 reau was organized in 1918, and shortly 

 after Mr. Doneghue was hired as ad- 

 viser. He came to the county from 

 North Dakota College of Agriculture 

 where he was a professor of agronomy 

 and in charge of the experiment station. 



Under his stewardship the Mc- 

 Donough County Farm Bureau has 

 grown steadily and is foremost in the 

 state for the development of Farm Bu- 

 reau and farm cooperative leaders. Farm- 

 ers credit the growth of their organiza- 

 tion to Mr. Doneghue's ability in getting 

 folks to work together for the common 

 good of all. 



Alfalfa A "perfect alfalfa stand" was 

 seen on Vic Hunter's 160 acre hog 

 farm on the Bond county pasture tour 

 in June. This field received two tons 

 of limestone per acre and was seeded 

 to sweet clover in oats in the spring 

 of 1937. The clover was plowed un- 

 der the spring of 1938 and 1000 pounds 

 per acre of rock phosphate were added. 

 Sixteen pounds of Dakota No. 12 al- 

 falfa was seeded in August of 1938. 

 The second crop in June this year was 

 luxuriant. Mr. Hunter prefers fall 

 seeding for alfalfa and believes firmly 

 in the merits of rock phosphate. His 

 nearby "treated pasture" of sweet clo- 

 ver, lesp>edeza, blue grass, timothy and 

 red top was a striking contrast to 

 the untreated land just across the fence, 

 where the weed, bracted plantain, pre- 

 dominated. 



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Fertility — Even when you put all 

 the manure produced on your farm 

 right back on the fields, some fertility 

 will be lost. That's why spreading 

 limestone and rock phosphate, growing 

 legumes and rotating crops should be 

 a standard practice on your farm. 



Say you feed all the corn and stalks 

 from a 60-bushel corn crop. You re- 

 move 93 pounds of nitrogen, 40 pounds 

 of phosphoric acid and 73 pounds of 

 potash. Manure will return two-thirds 

 of the nitrogen, three-fourths of the 

 phosphoric acid and four-fifths of the 

 potash. But that represents a loss and 

 you'll have to add some fertility to 

 keep up the productive level of your 

 farm. . 



Economy of labor, reduaion of soil 



erosion and conservation of soil nitro- 

 gen against leaching are good reasons 

 for seeding winter grains after soy- 

 beans. 



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