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Show TOE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Limestone Pays on Sweet Clover , $- Liberal Applications Result in Larger Yields of Bet- Q ter Quality. i To change the yield of sweet clover hay by the use of ground limestone from nothing to an average of over 5,000 pounds per acre is the interesting result reported by John W. Am, county agent of Polk county. North Carolina. "Mr. Artz conducted six different demonstrations, says E. C. Blair, ex- tension agronomist, at the North Carolina State college. The results obtained show conclusively that it is not worth while to attempt the growing of sweet clover unless the land has been limed. Liberal applications of limestone result in larger yields of hay than do small applications. Each of the six demonstrations consisted of e fdhr plots. Applied in Fall. The first plot, in each test, was unlimed, Mr. Blair reports. The second plot received at the fate of 1,000 pounds of finely ground limestone per acre; the third, 2,000 pounds, and the fourth,' 3,000 pounds. This limestone was applied in the fall of 1927 at the time the small grain was planted. Sweet clover seed was sown on the grain in March, 1928. The hay was cut and cured In June, 1929. The average result of the six demonstrations shows that the hay on the unlimed plots was not worth cutting. Where 1,000 pounds of lime per acre was used, 2,783 pounds of hay was harvested; where 2,000 pounds' of lime was used, 4,017 pounds of hay was secured, and where 3,000 pounds of limestone was used, the yield was 5,420 pounds of hay per acre. Mr. Blair says that this last yield was about double the amount secured where pounds of lime was used. OF Better Quality. The sweet clover grew to 'about the same height with all rates of liming, but was much thicker and of better quality where the heavier applications were made. Mr. Artz reported that several hundred acres of sweet clover will be grown in his county next spring and all of it will be limed. one-acr- 1,-0- Tramping Down Silage Is Not Advantageous Although farmers have been tramping down the sjlage to pack it evenly into their silos for fifty years, recent tests made at several experiment stations show that the practice doesnt help to preserve the feedstuff, reported the Farm Journal. At the United States dairy bureau farm in Maryland, and again at Pennsylvania State college, silos filled with evenly distributed silage, untramped, kept as well as the closely packed silage of previous years. According to E. J. Delwiche, superintendent of two Wisconsin stations, the practice of tramping is even harmful. He says : Since tramping is generally uneven and results in many pockets, there is less mold in the untramped silage. The ideal arrangement , when - the silo is filled without tramping would be to have the distributor fixed so that a man could control it without walking on the corn. To seal the top of the silage the last few feet should always be carefully leveled and tramped, when tramping is not done. I Fruit Orchard Demands Ample Nitrogen Supply Speaking recently before the Quebec Horticultural society in Montreal, Prof. J. H. GourJey, chief horticulturist of the Ohio experiment station, called attention to the striking demand that orchards make for nitrogen, particularly sod or mulched orchards. In discussing practical fertilizer practices, based on Ohio conditions, Our prac Professor Gourley said: tice is to apply approximately a quarter of a pound of nitrate of Boda for each year of a trees age, so that a tree receives one pound d tree five pounds. and a This is broadcast or sown beneath the outer branches. He called attention to orchard experiments in which complete fertilizers are used in comparison with nitrogen only. "The evidence in favor of the former, he said, "is so meager and unconvincing in most cases as to have led horticulturists generally to confine their recommendations to nitrogen beneath the trees and to phosphorus between the tree rows for the benefit of the grass or cover crop. As regards quality. Professor Gourley mentioned experiments in progress which show that, fruit 'from trees highly fertilized with nitrate of soda has kept as well as that from trees receiving normal treatment. four-year-o- ld twenty-year-ol- Clover and Alfalfa Are Useful as Silage Crops Clover and alfalfa are not usually considered silage crops.' In some instances they have been used as silage satisfactorily. In a good many others they have not proved satisfactory. Professor Eckles, tormerly of the University of Missouri, was successful in making good silage from alfalfa and clover hay by allowing it to wilt in the windrow before putting it into the silo. If the hay becomes over-drit should have some water after it is in the silo. applied Likely you would be better satisfied with your clover it you could put it up as hay and not take the risk of losing some or all of it in the silo. y, Dairy Products Demand To Increase the demand for dairy products seems to be one of the most feasible methods of advancing the dairy business. It is believed by doc- tors and nutrition specialists that, on the average, the American people do not consume more than about half the fluid whole milk necessary to the maintenance of the highest degree of health. If organized dairymen could educate the public to the values of the greater quantity of milk in the diet it would open up a large field for dairy expansion. 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Where only a single field Is located near the silo, the question arises as to whether silage corn can be grown upon it each year. On the Belmont county experiment farm a block of land near the silo has been growing silage corn cintinu-ouAlsince 1917. Walter Mahan, superintendent of the farm, and J. S. Cutler, assistant in agronomy at the Ohio agricultural experiment station, have reported on results of the practice. Their conclusion is that where corn is to be grown continuously on one field, the fertility program should be so planned as to meet the fertilizer needs of the crop and at the same time maintain the supply of organic matter in the soil. Such a program Should include the liberal applimanure, tocation of gether with both broadcast and bill or row fertilizer applications for corn and the growing of some sort of cover crop on the land over winter. A fertilizer treatment of eight to ten e . rye, and rye and vetch, have proved satisfactory. 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