Show forage crops urgently urgente needed to ro insure feed temporary forage crops are urgent ly needed as in su rance against a short age of g liv livestock k feed and farmers 11 II v ing in morgan county can serve the nation and protect their land by plant pastures this year dale in more district conservationist of the schott Sc liott c C c S states livestock numbers have reached an all all time re refford tord high in the U S and a shortage skor shortage tage of feed is threat enel aad unless steps are taken imme to grow more forage during the past year the total paler of cattle increased 4 per cent dairy cows and heifers heffers gained 2 per cent at and hogs boomed up 22 per cent sheep numbers are down only 3 per cent as compared with 1942 the th nations huge reserves of grain are dwindling rapidly abandoned farm land where crops have dave been destroyed or damaged by bv insects hall drouth floods erosion or other causes could well be planted to temporary pasture and hay crops he asserted on irrigated land sweet clover makes a temporary pasture capable ol of curving carrying one and one half to two ani nal units per acre generally th the 0 clover is planted with small grain the district conservationist warned however that good management is needed to prevent losses from bloat the crop stubble left after grazing clover pasture should be turned under in the fall all to increase soil fertility another practice that will provide additional forage Is the fencing of irrigation ditches livestock can then utilize vegetation growing along ditch bunks banks thereby keeping ditches clean ana an helping in control of noxious weeds because of the seed shortage farmen should consider setting aside a mall patch of grass clover or other forage species for the production of seed last year the production a A of grass gram and legume seed was approximately 50 per cent less than the war war goals set up by the U S D A camers and nd ranchers ai matala maintain a reserve supply of led feed either stored in silos or left this ibis is the livestock producers best insurance against disastrous dis losses from drouth insects or other natural causes every idle acre put into pasture or feed crops is smother another acre helping to win the war |