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Show Thursday, April 26. 197-P- 5 age Utah Farmer Feeds Home Grown Silage Like small are who children provide the desired mix." Call does not cover his silage pit because, based on his experience, "the cost of material and labor is greater than the loss of nutrients." For almost a third of a always clamoring for more of mom s home-mad- e apple pie. the steers at the Robert Call teedlot near Layton just cant seem to get enough ol Call's specially prepared, sections has played a major role in Call's farming operation as well as his feedlot His yield program. records indicate his know how with alfalfa n silage. Here's his recipe: "the first cutting of alfalfa is packed at the bottom of the silage pit. the second cutting goes on top of the first, then add a layer of Corn silage and top it off with the hird and final cutting of alfalfa." Call v;ry carefully chops both the alfalfa and corn in the fields. And each layer is firmly packed in the silage pit. "Although the alfalfa and corn are placed in the pit in horizontal layers, the silage is removed in home-grow- vertical alfalfa century production-s- tons ix per acre per year compared with the local average of only four tons per acre per year. the right "Selecting variety," says Call, "is the key to top yields. Several years ago Call switched from Ranger alfalfa to a variety that was bred for Utah growing conditions. Interestingly enough, WL-30- to much of the research and breeding for this variety was accomplished by Ike Kawaguchi, a former student and graduate of Utah State University at Logan. Kawaguchi is currently rated as one of the leading breeders of proprietary alfalfas in the western United States. favors Call WL-30- 9 because "it recovers very quickly, grows tall than other faster varieties, has a deep green color, is leafy all the way down to the ground, possesses considerable hardiness and shows greater resistance to pea aphid than other varieties grown in this area." For many years prior to planting Call grew Ranger alfalfa, a public variety. "This was WL-30- a steady variety," he reported "but the first cutting was fairly short. good And although the second and third cuttings were leafier the total tonnage dropped." "WL-309,- " Call con- "is a big improvement. The first cutting has fine stems, lots of leaves and tinued, produces big tonnage. Its annual yield is at least greater than Ranger." To establish a new stand Call plows the ground in the fall. He seeds 12 to 15 pounds of alfalfa per acre in the spring with a nurse crop or wheat of barley planted 120 pounds per acre. one-thir- d broadcasts the alfalfa and then harrows it lightly into the ground. The grain is planted at a depth of one and inches. Call one-ha- lf Make a Great New Entrance That all - important K first impression of home is created when ''oiir company first steps over the threshold. 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Call applies 120 units of nitrogen and 60 to 70 units of phosphate per acre as No other a preplant. fertilizer is required until the following spring when 100 units of phosphate are applied per acre. Weed control at the Call farm is relatively simple. After harvesting the grain crop the first year Call clips the weed growth and "the alfalfa then crowds out the remaining weeds." Over the years Call has mowed the alfalfa when of the crop f about is in the bud stage. He admits, however, that "many of the farmers in this area now determine the cutting time by the one-hal- cash crop. And even if the new crown growth." Hight, field price drops it's excellent gives the representative for for rotation, Germain's, a century old ground a rest and helps western seed firm, improve the soil. And Alah confirmed this and added, "throughout Utah alfalfa "often remembers. WL-309- increased are "the growers tending to mow their alfalfa when the new crown growth attains a height of about one and inches." Call irrigates once before the first cutting and then usually once before the second cutting. If the weather turns unusually hot he waters twice before the second cutting due to his light, sandy soil. The third cutting is irrigated just once. "The old timers," Call watered once a week and eventually killed their stand by Call's affection for alfalfa dates back more than 30 years. "It's really a dual purpose crop," he reports. "When prices are right, it's an excellent varieties like he concluded, now with Baby Chicks Sheep Or Coyotes'! a Sheep, that groin on steep mountain terrain. But coyote predation reduces lamb from a birth rate ol production 130 vegetation at market time. It possible for us to stay in to only 79 is not business. 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