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Show I'LANT KUIISTITUTTO (TUPS FOR IIAY AND FEED GRAINS According to the State Agricultural Agri-cultural Statistician, this year's hay crop will be 43.5 per cent of what It was last year; and the feed grains 62 per cent- of what they were last year. j With this understanding, even after the 175,000 head of cattle which" the government is now buying from the farmers are disposed dis-posed of, there will be a shortage short-age of feed for the remaining cattle, unless nature steps in and gives us Bome good and frequent rains from now on. To make the best of a nad 'Situation, therefore, and tius provide as much emergency feed as possible for farm animals, is a problem which confronts Utah farmers. Corn, sorghum, and Sudan grass are probably the crops that can best be depended upon at this time of the year to procure more or less satisfactory results. Sudan grass may even be planted plant-ed early In August and still procure a fairly good amount of feed per acre. It is a fast grower grow-er and can be used for hay, pasture or silage.' It is too much, of course, tQ expect normal yields from these latesown crops, even If weather conditions are favorable favor-able from now on; but what is produced will help out materially. materi-ally. Sorghum will withstand very hot dry weather and will continue con-tinue to grow under severe adverse ad-verse conditions. There are many kinds of sorghum that are equally good and the crop can be used for hay, forage, silage, seed, or syrup. It may be hard to find seed for planting, therefore, use what seed you can get. If com is available plant it and it will probably give better results than delaying to search for seed for some other crop. Whatever you do along this line, do it now. Delay may mean failure. |