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Show the uihtah basht faeixeb Bolster Pasture With More Crops If Supplement la Provided Live Stock Will Not Suffer for Feed. Blue grass Is the main constituent of our best pastures and makes abu- ndant growth during spring and early .summer, and again in the fall months, tut there is usually a period during the summer when little growth is The capacity of the pasture during that period of the year Is apt to be rather uncertain, particularly in a dry year. Supplemental Crop Helps. H. R. Cox, farm crops specialist at the New Jersey State College of Agriculture, suggests that if a supplement to the pasture is provided during part of the summer, the stock will not suffer from lack of feed, and the pasture will not be injured by grazing too closely. This supplement may be of various kinds. Sometimes additional grass pasture may be rented. With some farmers it may take the form of providing for temporary pastures or using soiling crops, or even by the use of silage. Hay land may be pastured after mowing. Grain stubble is sometimes pastured but the cows do not get much besides ragweed. In case of necessity, some of the first cutting of grass and clover may be grazed. A few farmers in New Jersey pasture the second cutting of alfalfa after it is well along. This is not particularly good for' alfalfa, hut it is not as hard on the crop as pasturing during the entire season. Of the crops that are sown for temporary, pasture, there is nothing that will beat sweet clover where the soil conditions are right for made. it Using Method of 8ollIng. A few farmers meet the shortage of pasture by using the method of soiling, that is, cutting green crops for the cows. Corn, clover, and grass may be used in this way; or certain crops may be planted specifically for this purpose, such as oats and peas In early spring, and soy beans in late spring. Soiling involves considerable labor, however, and it is usually cheaper to let rhe cows gather their own rough ace. Thistles Routed by Use of Alfalfa Crop Prepare Early for Treatment of Infested Fields. For Canada thistles use alfalfa. :his Is the prescription of A. L. ne, state weed commissioner for sconsin, and the medicine even en taken in large doses la not hard tnkc or besides destroying the thistles, is pro-:egod crop of rich forageconditions But soil and other st be right if alfalfa is to thrive must be I the Canada thistles before the alfalfa seed is m, according to Stone. Now Is the time to begin work on lada thistle Infested grain fields ;re alfalfa is to be produced next r, advises Stone. Plow as soon the grain crop la removed and turn soil deeply enough to bring the ining roots up to the surface. Then h a spring tooth harrow the roots i be pulled to the surface where y can be dried and killed by sun wind. The field should be kept pp til the ground frezei. d. part-subdu- ed I jin an effort to ke'ep the plants 'from forming stems. Next spring the field may be , Plowed again a little deeper than the first time, and lime should be added Decessary recommends Stone. The first week in June alfalfa seed may be sown at the rate of 20 pounds per acre without a nurse crop. With-itwo .or three years the Canada thistles will be destroyed and in their place will be a fine stand of alfalfa." From each milking a sample is tak- Alfalfa Does Not Thrive With Too Much Water , en. There is an old tradition among farmers of experience to the effect that alfalfa will not grow well with wet feet. If the land lies approximately level with the river It Is prob-- : able that the water stands rather high In the soil at all times. There should be four or five feet between : the surface and the ground water level if alfalfa Is to make any kind of satisfactory growth. Neither does alfalfa stand much overflowing.- If water was to stand on an alfalfa field for several days to a week It probably would cause damage. This land would be Old Standard Treatments some suited to timothy, red top and better ' alslke clover and to some of the tilled With Bichloride of Mercrops than to a permanent stand of BestStill alfalfa. Should you find, however, cury that the water level Is low In the land in disinfecting potato seed pieces It may be that the alfalfa will grow for the control of disease, the old satisfactorily. standard treatments with bichloride of mercury or formaldehyde still prove J i n , Disinfect Seed Potato Pieces - ! , best Test New Mixture. This statement Is made by G. W. Fant, extension plant disease specialist at the North Carolina State college, who has been testing some of the new commercial mixtures placed on the market recently. Mr. Fant states that these new mixtures are still in the experimental stage. They have not yet been developed to where Several they are perfectly safe. growers have had poor stands of potatoes resulting from the use of the mixtures. The new materials require a shorter time for treating the seed pieces and this Is important at planting season, but If any of the material Is allowed to collect on a seed piece In the form of a paste, as so often happens, Injury will result. In tests made by the county agents of Wayne and Pamlico counties, Mr. Fant found that injury to germination of the seed pieces was especially pronounced if any paste was allowed to collect. The new materials must be kept in suspension by constant stirring or a poor stand of potatoes will result. Mr. Fant made several photographs which showed a poor stand where potatoes were treated with the new materials as compared to the old, standard treatments with bichloride of mercury or formaldehyde. Treatment Necessary. In spite of this, however, Mr. Fant finds that potato growers realize that seed treatment is necessary if disease i3 not to be introduced into the soil. More attention is now being given to such seed treatment and better potatoes are being grown as a result. For the time being, however, growers disinhad best use the old, time-trie- d fectants and leave the new mixtures alone until they have developed further. The saving in time may be offset by the loss in stand of crop. Cause of Failure With Stand of Clover Crop ' Not the least important factor in obtaining satisfactory stands of clover Is the sowing of good seed. A farmer might use ground limestone to correct acidity of his soil and apply manure and phosphate to insure a growth of clover, yet get a poor stand of clover . due to poor seed. Out of 218 samples of red clover seed tested the past year at one experimental station, 70 samples showed an average of 27 per cent seed so hard that they will not grow. This means that If seed of this sort were sown at the usual rate only three-fourtof a stand would result if all of It escaped the usual clover hazards. hs Buckwheat Is Too Dense for Use as Nurse Crop The sample milk for testing should be composed of proportionate paTts from the milkings of one day. The sample should be taken Immediately following the milking ifter the milk has been mixed by pouring from one bucket to another or by stirring up and down with a dipper. With this date one can very readily determine the amount of butterfat produced In a month, as the one days production Is listed as average for the month. Thus, if a cow produces 20 pounds of milk for night and 20 pounds twelve hours later the total production for the day Is 40 pounds. With a thirty day month this would be a production of 1200 poundB of milk. Now if the testing Is 3.5 per cent the amount of butter fat produced during the mouth would be 42 pounds. This Is obtained by multiplying 1200 by 3.5 per cent. If the value of the butterfat is 40 cents per pound the total value of the cows production for the month is $16.80. Now if one has a record of the feed consumption for the month it is easy to determine the profit made during the month. Where the cows &re fed together one must estimate the feed consumption. Herd feeding of course is not as effective as individual feeding. , Cow testing as explained above is a necessaTy step in dairy herd improvement, and by dairy herd improvement we mean more profitable productions. Testing of a cows milk for butterfat has little value unless her milk is weighed regularly. Testing and weighing combined are necessary to determine production. Records and tests must continue for a full lacation period or for parts of two periods covering a year data on the cows worth. e Buckwheat grows too densely and CHAMPIONS OP THE HO- DOES m CHEYEHUE factory nurse crop. Sweet clover sown with It would be choked back The king of all out doors is again badly and probably would not make a good stand. The sweet clover would showing at the Utopia theatre, Fri- -' do much better If sown with a nurse day, April 26, and this time in a west crop of barley or early oats. A bushel story that brings a real wild rodeo onto' show the and makes to right the acre of either and a half Ken screen theatre. favorite in will and nurse your at satisfactory crop Sow 12 to 15 Maynard, First Nationals popular give a good yield. pounds of biennial white sweet clover Western star, is now playing in "Cheyenne, a motion picture taken per acre for a good stand. in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with all thg Is too- heavily leaved to be a satis- ' champion riders, ropers and cattle punchers of the west in the supMany Alfalfa Failures porting cast. The Cheyenne roundCaused by Barren Seed up is considered the greatest spec- tacle of its kind. People from all One of the chief causes contributing to the many failures of alfalfa is the over the United States make the use of an unsuitable variety. Differjourney to see the king of sports ent varieties are not distinguishable and this time it is brought right inby the seed and to the average person to your home town with Ken playthey are not distinguishable by the ap- ing the leading role. As everyone knows, Mkynard was pearance of the growing plant Most a follower of the rodeos before he people when buying alfalfa seed simply call for alfalfa seed, naming no signed his motion picture contract. variety and often they choose the low- He knows many of the boys personRoughage Mills Favored est priced seed which is practically ally and thousands of the rodeo rs for Cutting Bulky Feed always an inferior varletv. or lir.ew him of old. In The popularity of roughage mills low vitality. su.v. a w:Uv iu show Ken entered right Guide. for cutting up com stalks, straw, hay into the- spirit of the thing and parDuring the summer I observed many ticipated in all of the events. The and other coarse feeds for live stock Is indicated by their use on 35 ad- fields of alfalfa in all stages of bloom title of the picture is well named, 1 joining farms near State Center, Iowa. and so far as I can recall never once for it was taken in its entirely in On each of the 35 live stock farms is saw a field with a variegation in the Cheyenne, Wyoming. The entire city a roughage mill and no farm within color of the flower. This fact alone was turned over for the making. convinces that a wrong variety is used this huge block Is without one. A simple love story and many and largely. These 35 Iowa farm operators thrilling episodes are interwoven to many others find that by chopping It a dynamic, fast moving action make save up with a roughage mift they can COW TESTING POE BTJTTEB PAT thriller. much feed that would ordinarily be Others in the cast are Gladys Mcwasted. Feeds are made more palatIn a cow testing association the of classes James Bradbury, Jr., Chas. all Connell, for able in this way milk production from each cow la for poultry. Whittacker, Billy Franey and Tar-za- n, live stock, including hay weighed for one 24 hour period. by be also chopped the wonder horse. Albert It o- Roughage may This Is done of course by weighing for attachments directed. of gell means recutting both the night and morning milk. cutters. ' fol-lovc- this-Cheyenn- , ensilage e |
