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Show i GOOD DRY FARMING PLANTS Chinese Cowllang and Fetozla Htv Some Strong Points in Their Favor Grow Quickly. Cowllang and Fetozla are not very j familiar names to the dry farmer yet, I but these Chinese plants have some ! strong points In their favor, and were amongst the exhibits from Oklahoma at the dry farming congress. Either of them is ten to fifteen days earlier than milo maize, furnishing an early grain for the growing shoats at a time when they are calling tor more food to fill out their fast-growing frame. Other things being equal, a quick-growing crop is preferable In many seasons In the dry belt, lor it is easier and cheaper to conserve moisture before than after planting. Both these crops are good yielders or grain and have matured well at times without moisture during the elgbty days It takes them to mature. Just how far north their range win be I do not know, but quick crops grow well during the hot weather In the north and Its Intense sunlight, whilst slower ones get nipped by frost. The wide extension of corn to the Dakotas and Minnesota is In large measure due to the quick growing kinds. For the Bllo and hay, however, how-ever, it is often the case that a sort that has no chance to mature will produce the yields and quality if cut at the right time. We are Just beginning begin-ning to appreciate what a really drouth-resistant plant can do. These have been strangers to us and it Is strange to us that enough moisture can be In the ground to mature a crop without further precipitation. The question of when to plant needs much study. We were wont here to plant very early to catch every shower and snow In early spring, and often lost more than we gained, for many drought-resistant plants are creatures of hot climates and adversely affected by cold gTound, which gives them a setback from which they never recover, recov-er, whilst wheat and oats do better with a spell of cold weather for stool-lng stool-lng and rooting. It is inconvenient tor farmers to make many different plantings plant-ings and that is where the experiment stations can help us out and save us a lot of money and wasted effort by trying these things out and publishing results. |