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Show MM SUITABLE CROPS ON DAIRY FARMS Corn, Alfalfa and Pasture Grass Most Suitable. 1 (Prepared by the United States Department I of Agr'culture.) I Corn, alfalfa, and pasture grass have proved to be the most profitable crops grown on the dairy experiment farm operated at Beltsville, Md., by the United States Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. The bureau of dairy Industry uses a six-year rotation, three years alfalfa and three years corn. The pasture pas-ture is comparatively permanent and does not enter into Ihe rotation ex- : cept at intervals. I T. E. Woodward, in outlining the rotation, ro-tation, says: "In changing from corn to alfalfa the ground is manured in the fall after the crop is removed for silage. The land is then plowed and left in the rough to allow pulverization pulveriza-tion by freezing. The alfalfa is sown about the first of April and produces ; two small cuttings the first year, j "In changing from alfalfa to corn the first cutting of alfalfa-is removed the latter part of May. the ground Is plowed, and corn is planted for silage. Manure is applied for each crop of corn except the one following the al- falfa, and in summer, when it cannot ; be used on the corn or alfalfa, it Is j placed on the pastures. Lime is ap-j ap-j plied every six years previous to ' sowing the alfalfa." A mixture of six pounds of orchard grass, four of timothy, three or red-top, red-top, four of bluegrass, four of red clover, and two of aisike, sowed about April 1 on land that has been fall plowed and manured, provides pasture pas-ture about June. If the first crop of newly sown alfalfa is weedy It Is made into hay, but instead of giving It barn space it is stacked in the pasture, pas-ture, which is fenced so cows can eat It when pastures are short and dry. |