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Show I COVER CROPS ARE VALUABLE W Should Not Forget That the Mor We Do for Legumes the Mor They Will Do for Us. Especially In humid countries with heavy anow and rainfall, the cover crop for alfalfa or clover may be too tteavy and cause smothering. A medium me-dium cover on the other hand will act a a protection If the anow fall Is deficient de-ficient and keep snow from blowing off. If tbe stand Is very uueven on a clover field tbe heavy parta may be :ut and made Into hay and tbe bare ipota left covered. Grazing may be resorted to but stock are apt to eat the knolls bare where tbe grasses are sweetest and leave the ranker growth. A cover of manure will, however, put things right and ensure a mors uniform crop next season, and one '.hat will In Itself Improve the poorer barer parta of the field, says a writer In the Denver post I don't tbiuk we should ever lose sight of the fact that tbe more we do for the legumes the more they will do for us. Tbe better we treat them the bigger the root growth and stored nitrogen, the bigger tbe hay crop to come back as manure, with but little gone In beef or mutton and the added atraw which It has helped to work up. There has ben a distinct advance of late yeara tn applying manure with the spreader to clovers and pastures containing the aame. Ily doing this wo cumulate values rapidly and build up a aoll and make money at the aame t!me, whereas applied to a market crop, such aa wheat, that supplies no nitrogen or humus, we gain no work done by the plants but simply reap such reward aa there Is In manufacturing manufac-turing a higher priced product than hat we have applied to tbe soli. Should Not Feed Moldy Corn. Moldy corn will produce blind stag ers ta horses, and It ahould never be ted to them. Every year there Is ease In the west, and In almost every case the cause Is moldy com. If this corn does not produce blind staggers, ft will tend to Injure tbe physical condition con-dition of the animal. So don't feed It, and be careful about pasturing the horses In stalk fields where there Is moldy corn. Breeding Immature Ewes. A good many aheep owners practice the plan of breeding ewe lambs, which Is a poor practice from any standpoint. Thee Immature ewes cannot be reaa-inably reaa-inably expected to produce strong, vlg orous Iambs and supply anlsaala thai will make good growth and develop bato profitable feeders, and at tbe same tlm reach a desirable degree of development and maturity themselves Benefit ef Mulching. Matching breaks tbe fore of rains sad preveat compacting th soil. |