Show I i. i i f tf I Problem Problem t blein of fF Forage age l C I Crops Crops' t c r t One we weak k po point nt In our our agriculture is 4 f t P li small l at attention P paid paid to o forage r crops croop sr ye e have rye ve l had u ha a vast ex a I Pans JP 6 which to get sus V t n or cattle horses sh sheep ep and f fI ho gs gs s that f at we have av v fl but butt r L t slowly tb tbt i e for for forthe t the e g growing grow grow- ow- ow i c J s I ing Ad 0 ot of t 9 e especially P ial designed ed for lh fe oj i animals This This- is the conditions condition 9 ev- ev evry everywhere y ry re existing in t this ls l country co With t relation to to the thenay i na hay crop Bair Ha nay hay J crop has always been an i important n it V factor to in in our agriculture but th that t w. w because from the first r our our our t fathers rs- rs had d to cure the grass and ands J h I. I s star pre It tt t to to ke their keep their p stock tock alive d during dur r. r r J i. i ing winder frig Y I rl here where eI snows snows are he heavy vy 1 Jon sal grains grown on the f v farm we-re we n price the importance L' L p rage crob s. s was not felt The 7 J r. r jera of times ti es in grain growing I r. r f- f Vw when n every mien man i raised corn and 4 shoveled tt the to-the the farm animals with i i t the coal the was as also a time that was was inopportune t to the agitation for ii th the growing glowing of pF great quantities of A- A forage Happily the the- price of bf grain i has come oni lip ip tt to todie the point where the f fm farmer no n no l longer r feels like wasting it Jt and nd- nd the the- necessity of providing a 3 I c cheaper p t ration a n forc forces itself upon him 1 f f The world is i l more snore t than an at any oth other r v time In its Vs h st ry looking to us for us-for for y f the the 1 p production d Q pf QS a all I kinds of farm animals nt l and and nd Ve- Ve are finding finding- that we K r I cannot ot e li m at a a. cost that r f will to to sell them to foreigners foreign foreign- ers rs if ave use g grains graing ns as lavishly sf as wE we have haye have been doing in the past The r general scaled general scaled pf sif f p prices in foreign lands land s-inlo s n yer than with us and if we weare weare are are to tp to t to supply them with l the the y volume tu ne of ot ani animal nal life the they desire t 4 we we mt must must must-be st n be In a position to furnish It S at af U i figure g th that will l hold them as buyers buy buy- ers rs t a and and- 4 discourage our competitors ani lEvory lI man I int interested interested rested in animal husbandry d f i Is studying this same problem problem problem lem a and and and- d all an k kinds of experiments are being ca carried e on t td give us new data I on to work work Forage crops are are b being ing developed ve ped at home and Imported from r. r ri abro abroad d. d Qi Oats s are being grown hay for for thay hay and cured for when an hay in inthe r t the milk stage alfalfa is being pushed out o of territory to which It was supposed sed to fa pe be be adapted and is being r 7 m made d dt t to tom iro grow grow far out pf of Its original origin l habitat the habitat abi the he corn corn plant is being mode modi- Tell fled fied and grown grown by all kinds of ot methods meth meth- 1 ds' ds to as ascertain ascertain ertain If possibly it has not i yet shown Us us its all the virtue that Is In i tt It t for r the 1 ng of pf animal tissue pp Up o Oi Ithe the pr present sent time the most I k t tt t Important t. t advances have been in the J adaptation adaptation and development of the various f forage rage plants that belong u 1 to the pod pod bearing bearing family With these f t r pf plants it-is it i possible to feed both both the theana f g f v vH al ana mals and the land at the same 1 j H time Mor Moreover Moreover over the abundance of off f t nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen-in In nall all these plants balances K W up p the Yel amount of fiber and l Starchy y matter a er in the corn com plant our greatest forage plant so far as the i. i fd car carbo carbon ri 1 Is c concerned and the carbon is s t e element element t that drives the machin- machin I which ery o 0 ce as it the the drives the m machinery of of the ocean 7 j i r w or the railway train Y y 4 l. l fir r The cow pea has come out of the South and is proving to be a remarkably remarkably remark remark- ably bly valuable forage plant yielding In InA A some some sections of the country from one oneto oneto to to three to-three three tons of hay to the acre As a r w- w soil soU improver It is behind the e red F Y clover a long way and further still v behind alfalfa There are however about t 90 gO varieties of this plant now i being eing grown In the United States and I the differences between the the varieties I f fJ J are are eo great that we have a great or- or latitude for choice The hairy vetch ls is a a good forage plant when properly cured In a partial shade Where the winter II is mild crimson 7 clover will yield a i 3 large supply of ot good forage and a crop of It Is ort often n I I grown grown Between tween two twp crops crops' of corn I being p put t in after the corn is is' cut off offIn offin I In th the fall faU and giving giving- a good yield In IA p jL a vi a t I. iF- iF rr ii th the spring Before the tho next crop Is la put 1 i in We have said so much In favor of alfalfa that It seems hardly necessary to enlarge on on this most excellent forage for for- age ago plant plant I plant To appreciate te the value of ot alfalfa for stock feeding one should visit some of the great ranges of the theW W West st where the beautiful green colored col col- colored ored alfalfa hay is plied piled up by the thousands of tons and is being fed with a a balance of cotton seed crushed or corn stalks Velvet beans soy soybeans soybeans soybeans beans and even Common garden peas add to the lIs list of pod pod bearing bearing plants that are every day becoming of more importance And to them all we may yet add clover which is wonderfully won von wonderfully It rich h in protein is a soil solI improver Improver improver im Im- about equal to alfalfa and only needs heeds to be made palatable to stock to become the first forage crop of the middle west I |