Show Potato Farmer Cuts Returns Grass to Field Green Manure Pays OffIn Oil Off OilIn In Large Potato Harvest HarvestA A tanner farmer has hu corn come up with a new way waT of using grass ItUS grassin in his hI rotation to increase the pro of potatoes potatoe Farmer F F. F II U. Krause of Penn Perm has hu been a potato groWer for many years yearl He lIe has hu practiced a three three- year rotation of grain alfalfa and potatoes Until this year he always always al ways mowed his alfalfa fields dur duro lag the growing season and then the plowed them under in the spring prior to planting time He lIe noticed however the that the th heavy growth when mowed often otten smothered some lome of the plants plan so that the growth was rather sparse for the rest of the year And the heavy crop also made It ft difficult to 0 plow under in the spring When digging up his potatoes man many times he be came across clump clumps of the tha alfalfa that had never de de- composed Is Is' al shown wn as a. ho he takes the harv harvester ster sn ari field Ills IUs green m manure ui pro program gram ram pays pay ire greater profit ro t than than cutting Ine hay a f feeding it oat out be he says laya When Krause saw h a. a field forage harvester with witha a attachment attachment attach attach- ment merit used to cho chop grasses grass grass- es into wagons for t ensilage he thought it might be the the- answer answer- to his problem He revised the distributor pipe so eo that the chopped grass g would blow blown back c onto nt the gr ground u d. d Instead c of mowing he took lilt his his' harvester through the standing cr crop p chopped it and land blew it back tJ onto o the field As a a result the finely chopped grass did not smother any plants and was easy to plow and he says w well U be easy to plow under next spring Krause also figures that the chopped grass will decompose In the ground Bround much more quickly and make Its organic material available to the potato roots almost immediately Ordinarily grass grown in rotation rotation rotation rota rota- tion is harvested for tor hay haJ or silage or perhaps grazed during the growing season senon However Kra Krause feels that cutting the crop and returning It to the land landas as as s green man manure re pays paYI paysoff oft off for tor him In In ina a larger potato bar har vest and in grain production the WI second year V k t f |