| Show EARLY OATS recommended AS GOOD ALFALFA NURSE CROP chere Is really no liest best way to 0 o put III li alfalfa says professor shepperd of tile north dakota agricultural college it nil all depends on the he fertility of if your soll soil whether your soil boll Is loam clay fly loam free of weeds especially such weeds as quack grass foxtail and pigeon grass also whether you lieve the time the tools and the inclination to to do all the he things necessary to liest best protect your little alfalfa plants under all conditions in fit certain soils there enough plant food or Buu ident lelent moisture to inke fake care of file he needs of growing a full sized nurse crop and ripening it ready for harvest find tit nt the same time supply the necessary plant food and linol moisture sture for the alfalfa plants they have to send their roots deep enough benough into the ground so eo hat they can get moisture in suM sufficient clent amounts to supply the need when tile the nurse crop Is removed and tile the sun stin shines directly on tili lie little alfalfa plants dur ing ine tile hie liot hot period of harvest timp of nil fill the nurse crops early ants of at the file rate of two pecks to one bushel per acre with lie alfalfa and then outline the lie oats preen green or in the dough stage for tiny liny have given most satisfaction it gives them shade in their early weeks of growth and it keeps weeds iund n nd grass from starting tin and crowding crowd liin on out tile the fil falfa also by removing fi it before it ripens the trials inola lure that would be needed to ripen the grain Is conserved find and not passed on off into the air by the evaporation process C mirley barley seeded at the rate of one bushel to the he acre on soils suited foi hurley barley tins has proven to be an excellent nurse crop As a rule it does not hodg as easily as oats ripens early and ey cellena yields have been secured ol oil from 25 to 51 bushels on different farms where only a n bushel of barley bailey was used find seeded |
