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Show Serious Damage Done Alfalfa Crop Detailed suggestions to Cache county farmers on how to plant substitute feed crops to replace about half of the county's alfalfa crop lost by winter killing were announced by A. W. Chambers, chairman of the county land use planning committee, after a meeting meet-ing Friday night. At least 4000 acres of corn should be planted to provide abundant roughage, Mr. Chambers Chamb-ers said. The farmer should plant an acre or two of corn adjacent to his corral Or pasture to cut and feed green during August and September to save hay for winter. win-ter. Recommended corn varieties are U. S. hybrids 52, 544, 13, 65 and 680, or if these cannot be obtained, Minnesota 13 or Improved Im-proved Learning. The state and county USDA war boards are requesting the government govern-ment to release at lesat 15 combined com-bined corn harvesters, three corn binders and loaders, and three grain binders, so more grain can be bound and the straw saved for livestock feed and bedding. Arrangements Ar-rangements also are being, made to ship in corn and pea seed which will be available at seed stores throughout the county, Mr. Chambers said. The committee recommends a 20 per cent increase in barley plantings and urges farmers to store barley for feed. Canadian field peas and oats or barley and oats should be planted in the ration of 80 pounds of peas to 100 pounds of oats per acre. Red clover planted 10 to 12 pounds per acre will produce two to three tons of hay per acre this year and an abundant hay and seed crop next year. Farmers also were urged to plant more grass pastures, and some may decide to plant sweet clover, oats and barley pastures which can be harvested for hay from July until fall. Urging farmers to increase sugar beet plantings to the 8900 acre goal, Mr. Chambers stressed importance im-portance of beet tops, pulp and molasses for feed. The committee has warned farmers to prepare seedbeds with special care for the new segmented beet seed. Dry beans and potatoes also may be planted on winter-killed alfalfa land, Mr. Chambers said, but he emphasized that potato plantings may greatly exceed the county goal if planting continues at the present ratio. "If farmers will follow this program and adapt it to conditions condi-tions on their farms, we will be able to meet this feed situation and retain our cows and keep them in production," Mr. Chambers Cham-bers concluded. "Without the feed we cannot keep the cows, and without the cows our income will be small and so will our contribution contri-bution to the war effort. It takes a lifetime to build up the type of cows Cache county has, and we cannot afford not to make the necessary effort to keep them. Neighboring counties in Utah and Idaho also will be short of feed, so we all must work to provide our own feed." |