OCR Text |
Show PEANUTS ON DRY LAND FARM On of Bett Drouth Rlstlng Plant Mllo Also Is Crop That Never Fail In Arid Regions. The peanut li one of the beet drouth rculBtlng plants, according to 1'ror. II. M. C'ottrell. Last year In some parts of the southwest was the dryest year that has been known tluee the country was settled. Io eorae parts of this section there was In midsummer five weeks of severe drouth with burning hot winds dally. The peanut stopped growing, but lived; It wilted every day and freshened fresh-ened every nljjht. A rain came, the nuts tilled out and stockmen got COO to 1.000 pounds of gain on hogs for each acre of peanuts pastured. This In one of the dryest seasons known. Mllo Is a dry land crop that sever falls. Ten bushels of mllo has the Bamo feedlug value as ulne bushels of corn. Mllo is a starchy feed like corn. In Nebraska, eastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma the feeder uses alfalfa al-falfa to balance up corn; the dry land farmer can use peauuti for the same purpose and secure equally as good results. All the regularly grown dry farming farm-ing feed crops, such as Kafir, mllo and sorghum, havo been deficient In oil and protein, the material necessary for making flesh, milk and blood. The peanut, one of the best drouth resisting resist-ing crops. Is eiceedlngly rich In both protein and oil. The growing In large fields on every farm with sandy soil In the dry farming farm-ing sections of Texas. New Mexico, Oklahoma. Kansas and Colorado, and mllo and Spanish peanuts, will make this territory a great producer of beef cattle, hogs aud dairy products, and the feeding of these crops will Insure good profits, no matter how dry tba season. |