| Show soil S 0 i I 1 C conservation 0 n s er news by kenneth williams the winter issue of the plant food review ascribed how clar ence kaiser raiser of southern indiana has succeeded in m making his improved pastures pay off all summer long many of the grasses used in the northern half of the states tend to g go 0 dormant and virtually vertu ally quit growing during the hot summer months mr kaiser claims to have whipped this situation by seeding sudan grass and grain sorg hams right in his permanent pasture sod these two grasses are annuals and continue to grow vigorously in hot weather kaiser actually drills the sudan grass between june 10 and july I 1 seeding rate is 10 to 15 pounds per acre he grazes his pas tures down short just before gooding the annual grass the pastures received extra shots of fertilizers to make adequate plant foods for this two crop system kai ser claims to be getting good pas ture for better than three cows per acre with his method some pictures taken on his farm and illustrated in plant food review did show an ex celent stand of an nual sod this type of practice might possibly be the answer to one of our pasture problems right here in green river I 1 hope to see it tried on a couple of acres next year have you ever noticed that lazy farmers are sometimes quite sue suc for years now scientists have claimed we were destroying the productive pi capacity of our soil by using too many tillage opera hons the last few years a new till cige dge concept known as rough tillage ms wis been producing fantastic yields anen compared to the usual types of tillage operation rough tillage is most successful when the land is plowed in the fall the freezing and action of the frost and snow during the winter breaks the soil down into small clods which are desirable for good structure when spring comes there are absolutely no seed bed preparation operations the seed is chilled right into the plowed land this practice ellmin ates the expensive and time con suming job of building a seedbed during the spring rush joe alien allen has been using a form of rough tillage on his land for two years now joe reports that rough tillage has produced as good or better crops both years on his land he has plowed his land in the spring and then planted corn and melons right behind the plow with no other operations joe s crops are more uniform and require fewer arriga eions when this method is used rough tillage was also practiced on the L D S church welfare farm here last summer the difference between rough tillage and regular operations was fantastic you could tell right to the corn row where the changes in tillage method occurred rough tillage yielded about 25 to 30 per cent more corn per acre rough tillage is especially suited to medium textured soils heavy or light ground does not lend itself to rough tillage to a marked degree S C D supera supervisors igors meeting was held for december two special committees were appointed to pre pare reports on biology and arriga tion as they are related to the con program in green river donald hatch is chairman of the irrigation committee assisted by joe alien allen delbert tidwell and scott of the S C S they are to have a report for the march 1956 supervisors meeting boyd hunt is chairman of the biology committee alfred king jess powell and ken williams were assigned to help boyd this report is due in february 1956 the following is a list of fines and arrests made in green river for the month of november which were submitted by albert weber jus tice fice of the peace bliss running red light fined 10 00 howard albee reckless driving fined SO 00 stephen curtis speeding as 45 30 fined 15 00 john ny harrison drunken driving fin fined e ronald clark drunken derivi driving ng fined bernard blecker run ning red light fined 1000 10 00 |
