Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN PASTURE now la Is the time to take inventory on the value ot of your farm acreage which crop will bring the most returns tor for the capital invested thru out cut east millard county good pasture Is an important crop theis Is a need tor for more good pasture it if water la Is available to irrigate two or three acres ot of good land and irrigation turns not longer tha than a ten to fourteen days apart no crop will bring tho the returns a well planted pasture will at wellsville utah in the heart of 0 a good beet section as well as a dairy section a study showed that pasture ground was more profitable than sugar beet ground the university of idaho points out the tact fact that wolf well planted pasture ground in the state of idaho Is more profitable than either sugar beet or potato ground by well planted pasture ground Is not meant the acreage on a marxo mans farm that cannot be planted to cultivated crops good pasture should hare good soil and ample water pasture planted under these conditions should take care of from two to three cows per acre it handled correctly dairy farmers who have tour four acres ot of good land to plant in pasture should be able to take care of 0 from eight to ton ten cows from rom may to october the pasture should be split in equal parts and rotated to got get the best returns A good pasture mixture tor for our conditions would be kentucky blue grass dutch white clover meadow fescue reeds canary grass a little orchard grass and either alside alsike or red clover brome and perennial rye grass are ara two other grasses that could be placed in a pasture mixture to advantage farm bureau meeting on spirl 3 or 4 there will be hold held at delta an important farm bureau meeting farm bureau members and farmers who are not members ot of the farm bureau are not only cordially invited to be present but are iiri urged ed to ye pi present it Is as ex expected i that a member of the state farm bureau will be ba present to discuss agricultural legislation enacted by the last state legislature the rodent problem will also be discussed and plans presented toward combat ting tine the problem of 0 squirrel control lt it Is hoped that mr scott zimmerman ot of tho the biological survey will be present to discuss this problem there Is also the problem ot of organization of a seed association to be discussed A member of 0 the state board of 0 agriculture will be present to talk on this subject V just as soon as a definite date Is arranged word will be sent out to each community in the meantime those interested should keep in touch with wallace holman at the farm bu bureau reau service station the feed situation farmers and livestock men who will need to buy hay to toed their livestock until the now new crop Is harvested can now buy E R A hay at a reduced price those individuals who only need a ton or two can buy the hay at tho the rate of a ton by weight where a bigger bulk of 0 hay Is wanted orders may be pooled at the county agents AgoRt ll office the hay can be measured th then on and sold at the rate ot of a ton ISO feet allowed for each ton farmers who are interested in buying hay by measurement have until the tenth ot of april to pool their orders after that date hay bay will be sold on the open market to anyone it Is to any farmers advantage to pool h his is needs needa before april 10 |