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Show I Farm News-Notes i ; i I Iiy LEW MAR PRICE County Agent A Path of Beauty There is no path on the farm which is trod a? ofien as the path leading from the house to the barn. On many homesteads this path is strewn with weeds, rubbish, old broken brok-en down farm machinery etc., in fact most of the objectionable things aiound the home are sometimes concentrated con-centrated along this path. Why not clean up this path and make it a place of beauty, get rid of the weeds, trash and other objectionable objection-able rubbish, and plant perennial flowers and shrubs, so that it will be a place of beauty which, we are told, is a joy forever. Get the Habit of Repairing It is a good habit to form, to repair re-pair a thing as soon after it is broken brok-en as possible and not wait until it is to be used again. This will save time, expense, worry, disposition, temper and swear words. More Grain for Beaver County Beaver county farmers do not produce pro-duce ienough concentrated feeds to balance the alfalfa fed to the livestock. live-stock. On well balanced livestock farms, and most Beaver county farms, enough alfalfa and other hay should be produced to provide an ample am-ple supply for the farm animals. Enough grain, mostly barley, should be grown to provide enough concentrated concen-trated feed to balance the alfalfa hay. More feed value is produced by an acre of barley than by either wheat or oats. In growing barley, have your seed bed firm and thoroughly prepared. Use only the very best seed obtainable obtain-able and of the variety particularly adapted for Beaver county farms. Trebi Barley is the variety recommended. recom-mended. Treat the seed for smut before be-fore planting. Use the formaldehyde treatment by the stir and skim method. meth-od. This treatment is as follows: Cut a 50 gallon barrel into two equally sized tubs. Bore a hole in the bottom of each tub near one side, cover the hole with a piece of wire netting on the inside of the tub. Fit a cork into the hole from the outside of the tub. Place one tub on a platform plat-form just high enough to allow the other tub to slip under. Now pour a bushel of barley into the upper tub loose, cover the barley with the formaldehyde form-aldehyde solution; made by mixing one pint of formaldehyde with 30 gallon gal-lon of water. Stir the barley thoroughly thor-oughly with a shovel or spade and skim off all of the light kernels, chaff and sweet balls which come to the surface. Continue this stirring and skimming for 10 minutes. Pull out the cork and allow the liquid to run out into the lower tub. Now sack up the treated barley and allow it to dry slowly. Reverse the position of the tubs and proceed as before. A few acres of wheat should be grown on every farm to supply the flour needs of the family and probably prob-ably also to provide a variety of grain for poultry and hogs. Grain, the varieties best adapted such as Dicklow or Federation for irrigated spring wheats and Turkey red or Kanred for dry farm1 fall grains. Treat the seed grain by the copper carbonate dust treatment. A few acres of corn grain for silage sil-age will go a long way to make your alfalfa hay go farther and will at the same time balance up your feed. An acre of corn should easily provide 12 tons of silage corn which would have the feed value of about 4 tons of good alfalfa hay. Preserve the corn in a trench silo. Full instructions instruc-tions can be secured from Mr. Price the county agricultural agent. Silage corn is planted in rows 2M to 3 feet apart with the corn stalks from 4 to 6 inches apart in the row. It is cut and placed in the silo when the kernels ker-nels begin to harden. Half the Farm in Alfalfa In a very interesting talk before Mr. Wadsworth's crops class in the .Beaver high school on Monday, March 21, Prof. J. C. Hogenson, crops specialist, U. S. A. C. Extension Service Ser-vice .stressed the value of rotation of crops, keeping "half the farm in alfalfa" al-falfa" by breaking a plot and planting plant-ing an equal area each year. Beaver Valley alfalfa fields, speaking speak-ing generally, are in the stage where yield has diminished far below the economic minimum limit. In his talk Prof. Hogenson showed that yield of alfalfa increased up to about the 5th year, and from that time they begin to go down. This is just as true elsewhere in the county, and rotation is just as beneficial. Beaver county averages considerably consider-ably above half the farm in alfalfa, but our weakness is the lack of proper prop-er rotation. Many of the fields are older than the men opersting them, and the yields are far below what they should be. The "yellow" alfalfa field is a very common sight in Beaver Beav-er valley. Dandelions have taken the place of the greater part of the alfalfa al-falfa stand.. Some of the fields in our county produce as high as seven tons per acre, and yet our county average av-erage is only 2.0 tons. By following Prof. Hogenson's suggestion there is no reason why this average could not be doubled. o Mrs. Ray Murdock and Mrs. Aletha Bennett, of Beaver, were visiting in Milford yesterday. |
