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Show farm Conservation v program Based On Use Of Three L's toi. 1)3 . County near Oswego, ' ft based on the three L's tto pflpSture lime, legumes k fvSck--plus i a Plan for i3J.j ceed production and adtv Stion of all of the 100 cows on the place tot Swig's personal activity has Id t Sited since 1927 when an Siut him on crutches, but , ffi two sons as partners. ctart of a lime program in Lab-of Lab-of Jnnty is rated by Hellwig S th best thing that has hap-H hap-H IS to ms farming operations. St of the lime is returned in '?K Kased nutritional value of k gPEd forage grown on the Hi g$ soil, he says, adding that 3l i 2 lime has paid off in two f k rtT Fi"t, in increased yields; ly land, in aiding the legume oull fv' m Fertilizer, especially . gsphatc, long has been a part I it SHdlwig's farming plans. He Ate, Jipccts to use more. 3 toi HSPEDEZA, sweet clover, red & hi Juycr and alfalfa make up the ?rk program. Red clover ns: is the kingpm of the Hcl-s Hcl-s 104 legumes, coming back into h oWn with the availability of Ziffle.' Seeded either in wheat nb or oats, the red clover produces ? jsne pasture after the small 1 Vrain has been harvested. The xit year it produces a hay ibsert- oop and normally some seed Ha the fall before being plowed shen ip for wheat, oats or corn the eefe; following year. Grain is grown tot& lor one or two years and then tf land goes back into clover. lhit Hellwig tries to have at least linlq SO acres of red clover each year, fc The crop rotation plan on & Hellwig farm is not an iron-1 clad arrangement, Hellwig be-lT be-lT hevcing the best rotation sys-Ijfs sys-Ijfs ten is fitted into the weather "j.fe and soil conditions of each year. Mt Although the soil in his area doesn't have the natural ferti-' ferti-' lily of that in many others, he k hzs pushed his land up to the point where he has harvested Ml as many as 90 bushels of com to the acre. At present, 35 of the farm's 100 Hereford cows are registered. regis-tered. Through the selection of the best of the heifers, he plans eventually to have the entire herd registered. Hellwig now sells some young bulls to his neighbors, but he isn't looking to the production of breeding cattle alone. He looks upon registered cows arid certified seed not only as profit items, but as a means of producing the best' obtainable for his farm. THIS YEAR, Hellwig was, the only farmer in the county to produce certified Neosho oats seed, which he grew on 65 acres. He also harvested 70 acres of certified Hong Kong soybean j seed, and 40 acres of certified Midland Yellow Dent corn. He ' can sell the product of a certified certi-fied field for about twice the price for uncertified grain. Hellwig also goes in for tree planting. Four years ago, he made an experimental planting of 8,500 Southern short leaf pine trees which are now 15 feet high. A 7-acre grove of catalpa trees, planted some 35 years ago by Hellwig's father, produces all the posts needed on the farm. I Most of the upland plow land on the Hellwig farm has been terraced and the program will continue until all of the sloping land is protected from erosion. The Hellwigs build own terraces with a plow and a light grader blade. Hellwig is chairman of the County Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Committee. |
