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Show On Utah County Farms With Extension Agents v hay per head daily, provided they receive enough grain in addition to supply the necessary nutrients. When the alfalfa hay supply is short and badly needed as a protein pro-tein supplement for- other classes of livestock on the farm, and when grain is relatively cheap, a general rule for working horses is to limit their daily hay ration to one pound per hundred-weight live-weight live-weight and to raise their daily grain allowance to an equal amount. In such cases the alfalfa al-falfa supply may also be supplemented supple-mented with other roughage containing con-taining less protein such as oat hay, corn stover or straw. During idle days, horses working work-ing regularly should receive their usual hay allowance, but only two-thirds two-thirds of a regular grain feed con-taning con-taning one-third by weight of wheat bran. While horses need grain and good quality hay during their working periods, idle horses can be maintained very efficiently thru the summer on pasture and through the winter on bright, well-stacked well-stacked straw and a light grain feed. The- grain feed may be omitted if there is sufficient grain in the straw for maintenance purposes. pur-poses. With plenty of time for mastication, with undisturbed digestion di-gestion and with heat, the main factor desired through the winter, roughage of this sort may be used satisfactorily to reduce costs and release valuable nitrogenous hay for other purposes, Dean Maynard points out. AGRONOMIST CITES SUDAN GRASS FOR FEED Where crops have been plowed up because of drouth conditions, certain quick maturing crops may be planted with good results. Grain, wheat, oats or rye may be sown for either pasture or hay, recommends Professor J. C. Hog-enson, Hog-enson, extension agronomist of the Utah State Agricultural college. Sow' at the normal rate of about one and one-half bushels per acre. If the land can be irrigated before the crop is planted, so much the better. Sudan grass is one of the very best non-leguminous emergency hay crops. It surpasses millet or oat hay from the standpoint of yield, and is about the same in feeding value as these crops, as well as timothy. Sudan grass gives a large yield; the crop can .be gi-own easily and cheaply, and the seed cost is low, because the grass seeds heavily and the plant stools readily, so that a relatively small amount of seed is required per acre. Thus grass can be seeded late, any time from May 10 to July 1, although seeding before June 15 may be expected to give the best results in an average season. It is a dependable crop and withstands with-stands drouth remarkably well lifter it becomes established. Sudan grass is a very rank grower and therefore draws heavily heav-ily upon the soil moisture and available plant food. With the amount produced per acre taken into consideration, it probably is no harder on the land than other common grain or grass crops. It is very leafy and retains its leaves well when cured for hay. For further fur-ther information on this crop consult con-sult a county agent. DIRECTOR OUTLINES NEW PROGRAM FOR REHABILITATION REHABILI-TATION There are two major aspects to the work of the newly-organized land policy section of the program pro-gram planning division, agricultural agricul-tural adjustment administration, according to P. V. Cardon, director of the Utah State Agricultural experiment ex-periment station, who is serving temporarily as regional director of the new work in six states, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California. The first, or emergency, aspect of the work of the land policy section, sec-tion, relates to the purchase of submarginal farm land in certain acutely distressed areas where the acquisition of such land would help forward a program of rehabilitation reha-bilitation for the people accupying them. In this relationship the regional director serves, at the same time, as regional representative representa-tive of the Surplus Relief corporation. corpor-ation. It is expected that the $25,000,000 made available to the Surplus Relief corporation of the public works administration will be used to acquire submarginal tracts in certain key areas to serve as demonstrations, Director Cardon said. No purchase will be made, however, in the absence of a well-defined, workable project program which would provide, first, for the voluntary removal and rehabilitation of the families affected and, second, for the high- DKAN URGES CARE WHEN FEEDING WORK HORSES Along with the harvesting of the first cutting of alfalfa hay there is a tendency to feed more of this nitrogenous roughage to horses than they need or can use to best advantage, says Dean E. J. Maynard of the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college, i The practice of feeding horses their fill of olfalfa is always wasteful and often harmful. Tying Ty-ing horses to hay racks filled with alfalfa or even keeping their mangers man-gers filled can result in the use of large quanaities of alfalfa for which there will be little return 7'endered in maintenance or work. Feeding experiments have indicated indi-cated that under such conditions horses will eat as much as three per cent or more of their., own weight in hay daily if the quality of hay is good, while one 1400-pound 1400-pound horse is Reported 'to have consumed an average of 60 pounds of alfalfa per day, or 4.3 per cent of his own weight, Dean Maynard reports. . On the other hand, feeding tests have indicated that horses at work can get along satisfactorily on as little as eight pounds of er use of lands thus removed from cultivation. Rehabilitation would be effected, where practicable, by securing a suitable tract or tracts of land upon which families removed from the submarginal tracts could acquire ac-quire on an acceptable amortized purchase plan, a setup providing a higher and more satisfying standard stan-dard of living. This would be accomplished ac-complished through existing feder-! feder-! al agencies, such as the FERA, rural rehabilitation division, the farm credit administration, and others. Higher use of the acquired sub-marginal sub-marginal lands would be affected through assigning them for administrative ad-ministrative purposes to one or more existing agencies, as the forest for-est service, national park service, biological survey, Indian, service, soil erosion service, and others. The second, or long-time, aspect of the work of the land policy section sec-tion relates to the assemblage of facts regarding land use and the ' formulation of suggested policies j for improvement. This will be j done through full cooperation with various states and federal .agencies, in the interest of effective effec-tive coordination and procedure, Director Cardon said. |
