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Show PASTURES FOR STOCK Keeping of Farm Animals Maj Not Be Easiest Problem. Considerable Amount of Cattle snd Sheep May Be Kept by Utilizing All Strew and Supplementing Supplement-ing With Alfalfa Hay. Tbe homesteader In the west will keep more or leat live ttock on hit farm with the pasting of tbe yeart. He may not be able to do thta at the flrtt, aa he haa no fencee. If he baa but ISO aerea and acceaa to no rough or outlying outly-ing pastures, the keeping ot live a lock may not be the easiest problem. Hia trouble la not ao much wintering the stock at carrying it through the summer. sum-mer. On 160 acres of land the pastures pas-tures will be circumscribed. liut, thould the hometteader have 320 acrea of land, tbe problem I much ilmplt-Bed. ilmplt-Bed. It It ponlble for blm lo grow pasture on his own farm. On the quarter quar-ter section farm the difficulty la to grow enough pasture for pasture In the dry country doe not produce In quantity aa In areaa where there la plenty of rain, nor can Ita growth be atimulated to tbe tame extent ai the growth of grain cropa by tbe procenea of cultivation. Where the homeitead la located near to rough and broken .land, tbe pasture problem is easy, providing tbe owner of tbe same I able to purchase a section or even half a section of rough land, which never can be tilled. This of course must bo put under fence, and lf the patture lan la divided, di-vided, tbe condltloni will be thui far more complete, aa the anlmala may pasture on one-half the land one aea-son aea-son and on the other half the teit. the pasture will tbua have a chance to renew Itself. The . production resulting from thlt method thould never grow less. This, of courte, would not be practicable except In the eat of homesteads more or loss contiguous con-tiguous to tuch grating landa. At leaat It would be lett practicable for thoae located far away. Thua conveniently located to pasture pas-ture grounds, the homesteader on tbe quarter lection ranch could keep a oontlderable amount of alock whether of cattle or theep. The keeping ot these on bit ranch In winter would riot furnlih a difficult problem. He could tbua utilize to good advantage all the ttraw grown on the farm. Thlt could be made to tupplement alfalfa grown for hay, and alto corn grown for tbe fodder that It produce!. Doth or the) may be grown any aeaaon on tbe dry land farm, and from both considerable yields may be obtained. Prom the former for-mer about one and one-half tona per acre and from the latter about two tona cured. Where the grazing mutt be furnished by the homeitead ranch, t problem I not ao eaty. but It It by no meant nnaojvable. The number of anlmala kept must be leaa than where rough pastures ax accessible. Those kept however, should be of high quality. Whether kept for milk or to produce beef, the calves thould com In the autumn, Thla will admit ot milking the cowt In winter and allowing them to be dry In tbe late aummer when paituret are tcarce an dry. When the anlmala are grown for beef. It wilt make It ponlble to get them Into the market at the age of IS tnontht. In which case tbey would only be grazed one aeaaon. The aummer patture on the homeitead home-itead ranch could be aupplemented by soiling foods. ?be food beat adapted for thla purpose would be corn. It could be ao fed both before and after It waa harvested. Thla soiling crop baa epeclal adaptation to northwestern conditions. Farther eouth kaffir corn -and aorghum of tbe sweet variety would probably answer the purpose better. Tbe ordinary paaturea grown on the ranch would be supplemented by such pasture aa winter rye and volunteer cropa of grain. The former will probably prob-ably consist largely of bronie grass and alfalfa. The rye pasture wilt come good In the late summer and in tbe early tprtng. Dut to effect thlt pur pot It tbould be kept grazed down to that the plants will not at any time approach the Jointing ttago. Should tbit retult follow, the value of tba pasture pas-ture will be greatly reduced. Tht planta will become woody, and aa a reault tbey will become more or lest oopalatable. Rye thua town, tay In June, will funtlth a large amount of grating, and much of It la furnlihod at a time when grazing It not plentiful from ordinary sources. Smudging Saved Vegetables. There was a sharp frost one night last spring after vegetables were well suited. I had coverd our tomato and cucumber plants in the evening, but tbe plants left uncovered were chilled brittle. Long before the aun looked down into our garden and potato field smudge tires of corncobs, from which the wind carried tbe smoke over the garden and field, ao thai when tL on began to thine the vegetablea war well covered with amoke, which protected them at a heavy fog would have done, aayt a writer In in exchange. ex-change. Our nearett nelgbbort' gar dena were considerably damaged by the frost but ours waa not injured. Green Feeding. If the btt results are to be obtained with poultry, tbey muat be famished plenty of greo feed. Is a statement ao often beard that Ita repetition seems silly; yet ther are flock on fairly prosperous farms where on would think the practice of regwlar grt residing had never been hoard of. |
