| Show Oats Grown With Alfalfa Advised Serves as Good NUl Nurse se ClOp PI Dm DUl ingV ing V Winter Halts BY C II r am m A let tant nt In Cell II Es- Es t Fields Fl ll ltv or of Illinois V VU U U Service S Damage e from frum dust storms which pro etl so 50 devastating de to young loung oung nl falfa In some sections can Cla Clabe be practically eliminated It if oats Is IsSO SO SOn n as rs a nur nurse nure e crop with pith the tine ness ne alfalfa this fall Largely as a result of the poor stands s of ot forge forage caused by the drouth and the provisions of or the theA the A A 1 programs It Is 1 I anticipated that an exceptionally large acreage e of alfalfa will be seeded during the nett neet few weeks An Air appreciable amount of these will be lie en sandy or light windblown blown soils which are arc subject to wind Ind erosion ble of ruining made during the latter part of or the sum summer summer mer merJ J e ests ts at the h soil soli e experiment perI front ment field maintained In Henderson count by the tho University of or Illinois college of ot agriculture shows hows that this damage damase may be largely done donea a a with Ith b by the use of outs oats as n a combination nurse and cover er crop for fall seeded alfalfa on sandy land made at nt the Oquawka field disclosed no damage to alfalfa seeded last ill fall where surrounded IJ by good oats grow gross groth th However a n few feet l awai W Where where here no 0 oats ts had grown the alfalfa was as either badly dim dama r ed or en entirely killed by the wind windblown Ind hlo n sand and In a larger unprotected e area lre on the lie field sand hid had drift drifted drifted eel ed several Be eral Inches deep completely bury bur Ing a strip of or bluegrass In addition to pre preventing presenting the themo mo ement of ot the soil soli bv by b high winds t o oats SO sown II as ns a t nurse crop with al this tills fall hll supplies at least leist three other all advantages Grasshoppers pre prefer for fer the oats to the young plants and Ind thus are arc not so likely to feed upon the legume oats Is less lessor lessof lessof or of a n competitive companion for the than th weeds eeds would be and oats aids ads In protecting the dire the v Inter Intel cold |
