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Show One Way or Feeding- Alfalfa, Bulletin 52 of the Colorado Experiment Experi-ment station gives a communication from Purvis Bros, of Las Animas. II Is as follows: During the summers of 1897 and 1891 the grass was -so good on the rang that, as a general thing, it paid to run sheep on the range. Indeed, undei these conditions of an abundance ol fine grass, the lambs are almost at good as those pastured on alfalfa and the expense Is less. We had only about a hundred sheej on alfalfa during the summer of 1898 They did quite well. We had them their lambs and ten horses on a twenty-acre pasture and we could almost have cut It for hay. When the lambs were "weaned the ewes were nearly fat enough for market. The cause of the greatest loss from bloat is probably the necessity of cor-raling cor-raling at night on account of coyotes Where this plan is practiced the sheei should not be put into the corral until un-til almost dark and turned out in th morning before daylight The sheei generally bloat in the evening and thii is due most likely to the practice ol leaving them in the corral too late li the morning. Some actually put then in the corral at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after-noon, thinking to avoid the loss, as 11 is after this time that they generallj bloat, and then leave them shut u ntil after the dew is off in the morning. morn-ing. This makes about sixteen houn in the corral and only eight hours oi (eed, consequently the sheep do not h well. . This year, 1898, was the fourth season sea-son for us of pasturing alfalfa witl sheep. On the average we have lost about 5 per cent with bloat. We hav the field divided into two parts ani pasture one while we irrigate tin other. These were old ewes and wen pastured all summer. We expect al-. . falfa-fed -lambs to weigh about 71 pounds the first of October. (When on a visit to the Arkansai alley in July the present writa learned that Purvis Bros, have theii fences coyote tight and do not have tt bother about corraling the sheep m night. To still further lessen the danger dan-ger -from coyotes, they had taken tc hunting them with greyhounds and had killed seventeen so far during th Season. To surround a whole farm with ooyote tight fence would be rather expensive, ex-pensive, but it would not cost much to fence five acres and drive the Bheep in there at night, thus diminishing tb danger from bloat :! Greea Pea E,nue en Clover. Growers of peas have this year been considerably alarmed by the prevalence preva-lence of -the green pea louse. From Maryland and other states to the east come reports of the ravages of this insect Perhaps the worst feature of the whole attack is the appearance of the insect In the fields of red and crimson clover. How far west the ravages extend we do not know, but there is little reason to suppose that the Insects will top their invasion before they have touched the fields of the middle west Another year Is likely to see a great extension of the pest, and it would be well for farmers everywhere to be on guard. Little Is known of tbe methods necessary for the checking of the pest The sprays have proved ineffective, as tar as tried. In pea fields the most satisfactory way of dealing with them Is to go along the rows in the heat of the day bruslng off the lice, which then fall between the rows and are killed by the hot sun. But this would not be an effective method in a clover field or In a pea field where the peas are sown broadcast, for the reason that if the lice were knocked off the plants they would simply fall Into a shadier place. Tarletles of Wheat. The comparison of new and standard varieties of wheat begun by the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania experiment station in 188T has been continued through the present pres-ent season. All the varieties were badly injured by winter killing and the Hessian By. The yield was therefore there-fore very low in comparison with other years. The five varieties giving the highest yield were: Reliable 22.29 bu. Dawson's Golden Chaff 17.64 " Diets Longberry Red..., 16.92 " Pulcaster 16.91 " Early Genesee Giant 16.44 " The poorest variety, "Fultz Mediterranean," Medi-terranean," produced only 5.94 bu. The iverage of 11 bearded chaff varieties ivas 14.41 bu., and of 12 smooth chaff varieties, 12.47 bu., which accords with the general belief that smooth ihaff varieties are affected more by the Hessian fly than bearded chaff varieties. The late sown wheat was less affected by the fly than the" early sown. Four plots sown Aug. 81 and our sown Sept 22 gave an average yield of 13.96 bu. and 20.13 bu., respectively. respec-tively. The season was very unfavorable unfavor-able threughout in this 'locality, the crop upon some fields on adjoining farms not equaling the seed used. Enos H. Hess. Every one should live Just far enough away from his old home to enjoy the privilege of 'boasting about it. |