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Show Five-Grass Mixture Popular in Indiana Pays Off in Higher Quality Hay. Pasture Farmers in 12 northeastern Indiana Indi-ana counties swear by a 5-grass mixture that pays off in extra tons of high quality hay and pasture. The combination includes timothy, brome, red clover, Ladino clover and alfalfa, reports Walter Rusk, county agent of Huntington county, This legume-grass combination, he said, could profitably be used by farmers in other states. When plenty of fertilizer carrying nitrogen, phosphate and potash h used at seeding time and plant nutrients nu-trients are top-dressed each year, this 5-grass mixture has yielded a! much as 3 tons of hay at the firs! l . 5 1 y - . .. - y (jt i i ' i Five acres of the 5-grass mixture mix-ture on the Norman Thompson farm near Huntington, Indiana. cutting on many farms. One farmei in the area insists that 5 acres of the mixture provides more forage than he previously got- from about 6C acres of pasture. Norman Thompson, who farms near Huntington, Indiana, report! that he grazed 27 head of cattle, including in-cluding 16 milk cows and 11 calves, as well as 100 small pigs and 16 sows for 5 weeks on a 5-acre pasture seeded to the 5-grass mixture. Rusk points out that the well fertilized fer-tilized legume-grass mixture is doing do-ing an important soil building job, besides giving farmers a preferred position in forage supplies. The taproots tap-roots of the legumes drill down deep to keep the soil open and well ventilated. They add organic mattei to improve the soil's tilth and drainage. drain-age. Large quantities of organic j matter in the soil mean increased water-holding capacity. They alsc make it possible to get the best possible efficiency out of every ton of fertilizer used. |