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Show LUCERN SHOULD IT BE FALL DISCED? A subscriber at East Mill Creek writes the Farmer as follows: I have a luccrn field that has. ibeen secded'about five years. The grass is miixcd with it now. Would you disc it this fall? Please suggest a good gra.fs to sow with the luccrn to increase in-crease the yield. Next year 1 will plow up this field for peach trees. What is the best method of feeding corn stover to cows so that there will be no waste? Answer by the Editor. By all means disc the luccrn field now if the ground- is not too wet. The writer took hold of an old luccrn field in Salt Lake County some three years ago., The luccrn was so thin that it was almost impossible to tell what the field was intcndcdfoj We disced it in the fall, mud again in the spring and harrowed it over after the removal of each crop during the summer. This season this field of luccrn was one of the best fields in Salt Lmkc County. Disc the luccrn field and DO IT NOW. The only danger to the field will be in discing when the soil is too wet. The soil should be so dry that the dirt will not cling to the disc. The best grass to sow with your lucernnext spring is Orchard Grass, a grass high in. nritive value,, one that'thriyes" wplf in this climate -and is. ready for harvesting about the same. time as luccrn. Orchard-grass is best I adapted! of all the grasses for seeding with luccrn. Your purpose to break the luccrn up and plant peach trees is certainly n commendable one. Land in your vicinity, adapted to peaches is entirely entire-ly too valuable to grow luccrn. Corn to be most economically fed should be shredded. Machines arc on the market that have for their purpose the shredding of the entire corn plant, mixing the kernel throughout the product pro-duct and cutting stalk and cob into fine particles. In feeding this product there is very little waste. Regarding the subject of corn in Utah, we should like our subscribers to send in their views for publication. |