| Show Plow Your Alfalfa Rotate Your Crops Many farmers of the Basin are planning this fall to plow up alfalfa fields that have run out and as a result are not yielding satisfactorily The biggest drawback drawback drawback draw draw- back to this needed program of plowing up old alfalfa fields is the fact that the farmer needs all the hay he is now growing and more Joe Young of Home started start start- ed a year ago to meet this lem Fir First he obtained some Canadian CaI Canadian Ca Ca- nadian field peas to plant along one side of his garden About I one-half one an acre was grown an and andall andall all of it was save saved for seed this year to use in planting pea pen and oat hay Many farmers of oC the county have the pea and oat hay they have grown as entirely satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory but have found peas rather rather rather ra ra- ra- ra ther high In price Mr Young has found that he can overcome this problem by growing his own pea seed As a result Mr Young has this season several acres of fine pea and oat hay which will add to the quantity of his hay supply supply supply sup sup- ply without lowering the quality but little Peas and oats will fit it well into his scheme of rotation as well as supply needed feed while the old alfalfa fields are being broken up Nor is this all Many farmers having trouble supplying plenty of oC alfalfa are finding that the grains make good hay if cut at atthe atthe atthe the right time Mr Young believes believes believes be be- in supplying other seed for hay crops than peas and oats oata Where the peas grew last year rye is growing this year This rye will be used with wheat on some of the poorer ground to make rye and wheat hay Rye and wheat will be planted by several farmers next spring to supply hay on fields broken broleen this fall from alfalfa where the stand has become old thin diseased and weedy and unprofitable Emergency hay crops of peas and oats and of rye and wheat are recommended Others are plowing up alfalfa and planting corn which will be stored in a trench silo to be used with alfalfa for feed while the alfalfa fields are finding their way through rotation rotation rotation ro ro- ro- ro tation and to a throe to five acre production County Extension Agent |
