Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-02-22 | Page 3 | Korean Lespedeza will Supply Emergency Crop

Korean Lespedeza Will Supply Emergency Crop Midwest farmers who need an emergency hay crop In 1935 may find that Korean lespedeza will fill the bills, says Dr. A. J. Pleters of the United States Department of Agriculture. Doctor Pieters advises seeding on winnter wheat or with oats next sprin. For a hay crop, a seeding of 25 pounds to the acre is recommended. This authority says the crop may also be seeded alone on land that Is not weedy. He recommends Inoculating In-oculating the seed where the crop has not been grown before. He reports re-ports a good supply of seed available. avail-able. Doctor Pieters says that where Korean lespedeza was grown in 1934 a good volunteer stand is probable, prob-able, and he says that small grain may be disked in the old lespedeza and a crop of grain hay and one of lespedeza raised on the same land.