OCR Text |
Show SOD PREPARATION FOR MIL0 Successful Crops May Be Grown If Land Is Properly Prepared for Planting Two Methods. (By ALVIN KEYSER. Colorado Agricultural Agricul-tural College.) Milo may be planted on sod land and successful crops may be grown if it is properly prepared for planting. On sod, a seed bed should be made by breaking the land, and If there Is a considerable amount of grass roots so that the sod is rather stiff, the best preparation is obtained by rolling the sod down until it is perfectly flat, when it may be harrowed to produce a soil mulch at the surface. The milo jnay then be planted with a disk drill, stopping up the drill holes which are not desired. If the sod is very thin, that Ib, If there is not much turf In the sod, It can best be prepared by thoroughly disking and harrowing until un-til a Beed bed is formed. Both of these methods, under proper conditions, promise success, as both have been successfully practised In different localities and under different soil conditions. |