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Show Farm News-Notes By LEW MAR PRICE County Agent Make Machinery Repairs In the routine rush of production and harvest of crops repairs and adjustments ad-justments of implements and equipment equip-ment are sometimes postponed to a less busy time. If the winter has passed without these repairs and adjustments ad-justments on farm machinery, harnesses, har-nesses, fences, etc., having been made, there is still time before anyone any-one will be able to work to advantage on the soil. Time spent now in making repairs on machinery for heavy duty when the rush comes is as well spent as anytime in the rush season, and may make a great deal of difference in getting a crop planted while the soil is just right or in getting a crop harvested before the water comes. Frequently when the repair job is left until the machines is needed time is again too valuable to stop and do a good job, or wait for extras, and the machines is used as long as it will go, doing a poor job, and usually with much greater injury to the implement. im-plement. Plan This Year's Cropping System It is not too soon to start planning plan-ning this year's cropping system. This is one of the very important factors in the success of the farm enterprise, and should be given due consideration at this time. On the average Beaver County farm there is room for a diversity of crops, and certainly it should be utilized util-ized at least to the extent of supplying supply-ing the home market as well as the farm family. A small area of grain on every farm would help to maintain a bank account, and the straw is very valuable valu-able even in normal years for maintaining main-taining stock beef cattle, or as litter for dairy cows during the winter. This should be a good year to break old alfalfa fields producing light crops of dandelions and grasses and cropped for a year or two before re-seeding re-seeding to alfalfa in order that the maximum yields may be secured. I There seems to.be no question that a greatei agriculture in Beaver County depends very largely upon the quite general adoption of a well balanced cropping system through the intelligent extension of a diversified diver-sified farming With dairying the principal project in the Beaver Valley, Val-ley, and fast becoming so in the remainder re-mainder of the county we should plan to produce feeds for the dairy cow. By feeds is meant the concentrates as well as the roughages, because we will never get the most out of our cows until they are supplied with some of the more concentrated feeds and probably succulants. In these plans it is well to remember remem-ber that fertility cannot be maintained. maintain-ed. Even by the addition of all "the barnyard manures produced on the farm, so none should be allowed to go to waste. A well balanced farm garden is one of the efficiency factors that will mark your success both financially and in supplying a well rounded family diatary at a minimum cost. |