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Show FARM.Nares Have you a good crop rotation on your farm? Success in farm work depends largely large-ly on knowing how. A silo is kept air tight so that the silage will not spoil. Sorghum hay properly cured is a good roughage for horses and cattle. Much . garden soil seems to neea lime, and probably a complete fertilizer. ferti-lizer. The best and cheapest way to fight insects is by a good, efficient rotation of crops. A well established alfalfa field should graze from fifteen ro twenty pigs per acre. Corn-husking time is when tonics to aid digestion are out of sight and out of mind. 'It is best to build a round silo, because- in the . square silos the silage spoils easier. Corn fodder that is dry and dusts will be improved a little by sprin-gling sprin-gling in the mangers. If you want to be really up to date sweep down the ceilings of your stables sta-bles and whitewash them. Sweet sorghums are more palatable and therefore relished better by both horses and cattle than corn stover. It takes a mellow soil to grow corn, and you can make the soil mellow before planting time by plowing now While considerable is known abcul the value and use cf alfalfa for grazing, graz-ing, much remains to be determined In pasturing alfalfa it must never be overstocked, as the animals will injure the crowns and the plants will die. Sorghum seeds ground have been found to be worth about ten per cer.t. less than corn for milk making purposes. pur-poses. For beEt results the alfalfa pas ture must be mowed at least three times a year because at certain times it begins new growth from the root. |