Show Crops Diversified I'! f r THE IMPORTANCE THE O ROTATION ARMER CROP IRRIGATION OR By W H o'clock on a cold and frosty morning and tile weary cyclist had still many miles to go Passing through a lonely village he lighted window Perhaps he saw a thought he might be able to get some-thing to eat and drink So he knock It OLIN Director of Agricultural Extension University of Idaho was Who's there?" came Short 'DtmonjtrationTrain 20 feet deep Lint of Success farm success is the farm on Lrcturt making "A innumerable nitrogen storing up perforations while when these roots decay they and the system is leave not only a generous supply of the basis of organization on farm but millions for desired the fertility any crop on successful crop management of openings into which the airs management of the crop largely rest and rains of heaven find their way five fundamentals: these help to constitute unfailing 1of Business and an Economy which reservoir of wealth upon tne ertility 2 Maintenance of Soil Soil husbandman can draw with little fear 3 Productivity of the of or overdrafts" protest 4 Subsistence for Livestock Professor Buffum some years ago arm Profits at end of Season Experiment Station The term "Rotation of Crops" is at the Wyoming made a test showing the gain on to used designate a system of crops potatoes ground for small grain and soil which give a recurring succession of of over the same type field plants with differing plant food His results where alfalfa was not grown requisites here given obtained are Reasons for Rotation Wheat gain in bushel per acre The primary purposes of a crop ro-are 12 harvested crop gain in value of 1st tation Prevention of "Crop (local prices) $1000 continuous Oats gain in bushet 41 Sick" soils the result of per acre cultivation of the same crop for a period gain in acre value of harvested crop of 2nd The eliminationof (local prices) $1600 years weeds insect pests and crop diseases Potatoes gain in bushelper acre in the of 3rd Increase productivity harvested 29 gain in acre value of the field crops by conservingthe soil crop (local prices) $1600 fertility Therefore get the land into a leof irst Irrigated Crop gume some kind alfalfa vetch or field as pea soon as you can that it The first crop to be grown in any appreciable degree "under the ditch" may be better prepared for successful profitable and after crops Wheat followed wheat was wheat is in In case the farmer doubt just the year after year on river plain in what crop to put in he will make no farms of Utah and Idaho until mistake to seed down to alfalfa while some instances the yield of grain fell he is planning out the rotation 25 50 crop and even per cent below what It first would seem to the farmer This was that his environment gave for him to adopt comparatively virgin soil which Indicate best on think is rich as Rotation Destroys Weeds we cream Why Is this? eeding at the same depth on The eliminationof is weeds the same plant food elements absorb accomplished by the introduction the readily available plant of like food of cultivated potatoes crops this particular element so this class stock roots sugar beets field of plants is then sparingly fed Like beans and truck gardening crops The it a starved pig its cannot make irrigation ditch is even a greater carrier of weeds than the winds Where owner the profits the well fed ones do an entire irrigation district adopts the All plants do not feed alike They practice of crop rotation and cutting either use different foods or the same ditch and canal bank weeds they can food from of different depths Therefore be and are exterminated Most plants feeding at different our worst weed pests are annual and depths of soil although they may when all users of a given ditch practice same food elements the deeper a good rotation the weed crop feeding plants can follow the shallow qeustion is solved feeders without serious immediate Get Station Bulletins loss although eventually unless these Because weed and Insect pests as absorbed food elements be restored well as fungus diseases are fully discussed the available plant food will become in Station bulletins which can exhausted and the soil will therefore be had by addressing the director of be Impoverished state experiment station shall The depositor who continues to your discussionof them draw his money from the bank without pass up any Rotation undamentals making deposits will at last find his checks returned marked "short" Let us now consider the fundamentals No bank will permit continued overdrafts which we should concern ourselves with in adopting a We should not be taking off rotation for all the time where we cannot without putting back the our irrigated lands to food elements upon grow which plants afford many cheap forage or feed If unless some of the time do we grass crops upon said farm we have a crop sick soil that does not these we can convert cheaper crops into "pay its checks" for want of funds more remunerative meat dairy tne available food elements that have- or poultry products All been taken through previous withdrawals 1 plants tend to exhaust the soil They abstract some one or more Our Utah and Idaho soils are either food elements to the full amount of of granitic or volcanic rock formation availability All These soils seem 2 abundance plants do not exhaust the an of potash a and reasonable amount soil in the same way manner of phosphates a limited amount of equally nitrates of 3 Plants abundance lime a grown constantlyor continuously but great deficiency in organic matter on the same field favor the commonly known as and certain humus Here spread of insect pests are the essentials need in these plant diseases we of tillweed soils they constitute the soil barometer 4 Some plants by method since the lessened amount of any age are favorable to weed growth of these will most one seriously affect while others are not in the general 5 Plants differ habits of" root crop culture Humus not only increases 'the water holding growth All capacityof the soil but it also carries 6 legumes are soil builders soil of and renovators an appreciable amount nitrates Hence we need early in our cropping 7 Some form of stock raising to get humus In the soil eed the combined with crop growing will furDoll constantly that It making humus and may in turn nlsh manure for feed our crops How may we do this? building up the soil The old English H growing crops that tend to store adage "No grass no cattle no cattle what little humus we have with nitrogen no manure no manure no grass" is while it increases the humus true everywherescontent of the soil These are legume Rotation on Irrigated Lands crops- alfalfa beans' peas alslke red Every rotation the irrigated on clover and vetches constitute the lands in this region should contain: family group- which have 1st At least one or money cash proven profitable for us to grow in the west Choose the one that is best crop 2nd At least one cultivated crop adapted to your farm environment 3rd At least one legume crop feel will and you grow you the most 4th At least one live stock or feeding it dollars Give a permanent place crop in your field crops 5th These should be so grouped as These to plants have the to seem most economically distribute farm property of utilizing the free labor throughout the year nitrogen of the air and thus store 6th So arrange the rotation that in soil humus the and accumulate the farm turn cheap and can bulky the one thing our soils seem feeds into milk poultry or meat pro is this most to need How done? The basis of organization gruff a voice the traveler" Back "Then cyclist replied came shot the p effectually usehe W' X I I r to-hold i t I I ain't man a a ' 8 1 - Man and Meter Both Unique A Kansas City man notified the company that his meteY was runnin' slow Greater honesty hath no teef" His Exact Sort kind of a glass of fashion Ophelia consider Hamlet?" "As Hamlet long as she called hfm Lord suppose she considered him a peer than "What complaining freaks are but about hard times: as ossified man says things been hard with him for that always "D this did the have I The annual per Europe averages United States the glass" capita fire 33 cents It amounts waste WhUe to $2 Hold Up An I Before the Coffee Roasters' Association in at Chicago on Thursday Thomas J Webb Chicago charged that there is in existence a coffee combine which is "the most monstrous jn the history of human commerce" is thia There slight exaggeration about very It statement comes very close to being literally true There is a coffee combine in Brazil from which country comes the bulk of the coffee used in the United States which backed by the of Brazil and financed by which American consumers as Mr Webb said "to famine prices for coffee when no famine pay exists" The worst thing about this is that the consumers of the United States have been compelledto this put up the combine money through which to further cinch them has been made effective There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon all coffee entering the United States Those taxes were denounced as an imposition upon the people as taxing the poor man's breakfast table and the like The taxes Immediately were removed cnereaiter Brazil imposed an export duty upon coffee up to the full amount of the Conner custonis taxes in this country The revenue which went into the treasuryof the United States The poor was divertedto the treasury of Brazil man's breakfast coffee continuedto tne same old price But this was only the commencement The vaiwrifation" plan evolved in Brazil was Through this plan the government using the S08-Bion of imposition is a government it x com-pels A I a formerly fl ' t I tA 9 cost-him I revenues Standard statistics of th® coffee trade snow a falling off in sales during the last two years of over two hundred million pounds Authenticatedreports from the Postum factories in this city show tremendous increase in the sale of Postum derived from the export duties for the purposes takes all of the surplus crop in a season of off large yields and holds it the market thus keeping the supply down to the demands of the market and permitting the planters to receive a much higher price than they would otherwise have done The United States consumes more Brazilian coffee than does the rest of the world We are the best customers of Brazil and Brazil buys little from Now Brazil is promoting financing and us maintaining a trust designed and working effectively for the purpose to compel American con-sumers to exorbitant price for the coffee pay an they use What is the remedy?- Seattle Poet-la teUigencer-Nov19 ISl a in like period of time While the sales of Postum invariably show marked increase year over year the extraordinary demand for well-known that breakfast beverage during 1911 is very likely due to a public awakening to the oppression of the coffee trust Such an awakening naturally disposes the multitude who suffer from the ill effects of coffee drinkingto be more to of a receptive knowledge harm which so comes as a result of the use of' coffee- Battle Qruk Evening Newl-Dec 19 1911 often Hie drug-beverage POSTUM f?°?-drinR pleasing a made flavour A About not Big' At field high Packag'e Costs lbs I4 the of unlihe grains grade 25 with Java cts Grocers nitrates ducts Through a most peculiar little Ux ' rotation S' I !° fnr vLviAAg family 7th Thus make factory methods on of lower organisms known as bacteria the farm turn ordinary waste products which grow on the root hairs Into profits and tiny rootlets of the root system The meat packer so utilizes the of these legpme plants This creates calf lamb pig and that there is It now as a were fever in that particular nothing lost but the blat and the part of the plant calling for air squeal more and In more water a chemical process The adoption of a definite crop not easily understood the free and the practice of factory nitrogen obtained from the surroundmethods on the farm will stop the ing air is worked Into nitrates available leaks which now reduce the profits to succeeding plant life and tremendously improve the quality Perennial legumes are always deep while it increases the quantityof the feeders bringing a part of their mineral output of every farm in this district soil food from depths below the in I know an irrigated farm the feeding ground of ordinary crops' Rockies where the suggested method This value to is succeeding crops named above is followed and the in shown the opening paragraph to for the period of their crop Coburn's Alfalfa: "There are some of six years which I checked sub-soilers silent that do their up last year averaged $100 gross per work with ease and in their way acre crop per season Do not be satisfied more effectually than any or feel team until you you have worked plow ever hitched The clover plant out a crop rotation adapted to is righteously famed as one of these soil your climate and market environment but alfalfa is its superior Its roots and that rotation is averaging you a work Sunday as well as Saturday gross return of $50 per acre crop night and day they strike 5 per 10 15 or season is -It such mi tion x One's is free of from the harmful coneej any ui today are nnwneo duTThoH1 TJousancls e' m o will not main reason subqf "caffeincTstance which v nf drirrs it purse VOLU111 absolutely as mb returns that coffee to former dnnhing Jouhy-'3 become I so indig®s' coffee ®S ofr anrp causes eaSy) to and rotation !x ‘ 41 1 - l -r r ( - -T n in " ri Trust Oppressive peculiar W that here" said Broncho Rnt! big lot o' men in X settlement We couldn't possibly " 12 of 'em together without startin' fatal argument about somethin' th had nothin' whatever to do with th 1118 case I travel!" Museum legume i "Look "there a ma answer: alfalfa 1 in in a Judy give you fa clear tones like "Pidn't trial?" " within from Oron Basis 3 ed ‘ No Mistaken There The phrenologistwas examining the bumps on Sambo's head "Curiosity and acqultivenessabnormally large" his eyeballs and Sambo rolled showed two rows of white ivory "Imitativeness casuality and consci which with youi entiousness small weak mouth indicates - ab "Don' yu be so shu 'bout me bin' weak mouf kin crack nuts Welcome i "There's Postum Cereal Company a Limited Reason" Battle I CreeK Michigan |