| Show Intermediate Wheatgrass Called C Excellent for This Region r your land tand grow alfalfa liay without irrigation Or is your wat water vater r supply enough only for one good cutting of hay bay Or do you peed need range pastures that stay Te 4 green n and usable well Into the summer Bummer such aa as Echo Canyon or thea the Chalk Creek Those nOISe are a places and conditions where Gr enar intermediate wheatgrass fI bes Seedling Vigor Good I Intermediate wheat grass rass ras Is ia a n mild mUd sod forming grass I la Is late late maturing It Is le I adapted to use In to conservation dram drain seeding on soils soUs with good fertility og age oge and medium to high Seedling vigor rigor Is good It establishes establishes lishes Itches quickly It U la best t tp to land and should foe Ie used on irrigated land only la Is short or 01 lf 11 the water supply undependable If It adequate water ia b available for lor two or more hay bay I crops other grasses Se are more mores s a hal le because Intermediate I Wheatgrass makes little titer lt the ne e first harvest t. t I i Is la used In mixtures I with alfalfa In soul 1 conserving enough i crop rotations It requires rainfall to produce a crop of at al alfalfa al- al falfa taUa for bay hay It reaches hay stage stag I About two w woks later than alfalfa I but Iut the kraas kr s U is not harmed by cutting Butting when the be alfalfa U to ready ThU tends toward better quality inured l d hay bay Y fair Pur pa pasture use ue it Jb giM growth a u as early as al crested l in the aprin but it 11 better to reserve it for ilia uh ia Sa midsummer when other few 4 ds 41 dry Soil SOU Conservationist Conservation let 1st ia tn Wl Weiser r Riv River r Idaho o Soil Conservation oM District report reports that aers i or two third of af the cropland in la the dla dla- trie Ia la now seeded to 1 what and al al- fc oWe 1 ii 0 used for r nay ay y andt and aud t tome colas entirely for pasture Summit County UM taM tasty many su n area ar arena according ac ae CIO cording i g to o 0 M Jt seB CS Taylor lor Wale Hale and aU hla son lIOn n at W I r River Elver SOD Soh have bare A alOo lOo sore 10 cre pasture of ot Or nar nara a J Alfalfa for their ar ner Herefords Hereford Ht they pastured 60 CO bead of cows cowa owa aad ad ar old r r tr May Mar 1 15 11 to Jul July 16 II T Then eQ about l t S 1 I th the f turn W G i head w d dot ot dry OPt fl w to to Uw tM pasture t tUl em l J. J Mr Mr- jale sups Tbs gavotte aWe tt well u la la- ale Sunni sMS bull Th There r w. w WM tits i no bloat trouble And we left S 8 Sto Sto to 10 inches of stubble Desirable Feed Frank Bohman Dohman in tn Morgan Soil SoU Conservation District has had sev say several eral oral years fears experience with re- re seeding his summer eummer range high I above the Weber River Valley He says eay s Intermediate seems to be bethe bethe bethe the t best eat of ot all the and many of ot the natives It Is far more productive than most of ot the grasses and more desirable The animals take to It it at any stage tage early or late and it cart can be b fed moderately at any time On n spring and summer Bummer ranges it provides I good desirable fe feed To get the best use it should be planted In Ina a pasture by itself was selected from one of several Plant Introductions ns of intermediate wheatgrass which came to this country in 1931 from USSR Some of the older Men Yen Mennonites at A Aberdeen Idaho remember re re- member Tashkent in the Ukraine the s spot Ot where the collection was waa I obtained that was waa developed into i I Prevents Erosion I Most seed production of ot Green ar at has been on good I land although It can be grown Lon 1011 on Irrigated land Keith Strom In Camas Idaho Soil Conservation Conserva tion District U la a Ii a successful seed I I grower rower He Ile grows growa it in rows cul cuI- I I and He lie pro pro- duc w high quality Certified seed under sunder the rules of Idaho Crop Improvement Association wheatgrass produces a mass ma of at roots root a and rhizomes In ID Inthe Inthe the surface soil eoll At Tetonia Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho root and crown production InI in fn inthe I the surface 8 S Inches of ot soil for Go a alfalfa mixture was waa more than aan pounds pound per acre at the thA end of or three thrle a production years r. r Tho fibrous roots root roo te of grot grass improve im prove provit soil structure making It more absorptive tv of or ral rain and bolding bold bold- lag ing the tie Go soil 1 Ia La place plUG against ere era elan sion I |
