Show SOW BARLEY WITH ALFALFA oreen stuff li Is provided tor for winter arid and land la Is made more productive keeps keep down Fox foxtail tall many alfalfa raisers are atre in tho the habit of planting barley in their alfalfa in the fall and the practice IV 1 so BO good that it la Is un unfortunate fortunato that it to Is not done oftener it provides green stuff during the winter and makes the land productive at a time when it ordinarily to la not producing anything uy thing ex cert perhaps somo fastaia fas tail and not tho the least valuable feature of the barley Is that it keeps down the foxtail fox tall the Tho several floorings floo dings that an alfalfa field gets during the summer plus the tha packing of the soil by the mower the tha horses hoofs and the hay bay making and hauling or by the stock if the field has haa been pastured compacts the tha soil in a way that would almost be ruin for an orchard A stirring up of the soli soil when these conditions exist Is almoite the same kind of a stimulant to VA eld that good cultivation and a soil mulch Is to an orchard that la Is why it to la so ble to use usa a dis dlatt an alfalfa renovator or a spring tooth on an alfalfa held field with the soil torn tom up a bit it la is possible to sow barley and get excellent results land on which alfalfa has grov grovia na Is always rich and contains lots of nitrogen although the alfalfa takes up much ot of tho the apace and tho the barley naturally cannot do as well as if tho the land were really plowed in stead ot of scratched a good stand can be secured it la Is possible to either pasture tho tha barley or to let it go tor for hay in the tha first case a heavy seeding la is usually best in tho the second a light seeding so GO that tho the alfalfa will havo have plenty room when n it starts growth in the spring in shw case the land is producing product ric something instead of lying almost idle or growing only fox foxtail tall and the mixture of barley and alfalfa bay la Is excellent and a vast improvement over the mixture of alf alfalfa ilta and fox foxtail tall |