Show ORN CORN AND ALFALFA BEST DAIRY CROPS I 1 lureau bureau of bof dairy industry uses six year rotation 11 rc Dired by tho the united states deportment department of f agriculture corn alfalfa 0 and pasture pi sture grit grus bave ire proved to be the most profitable crops aps ops un oil the dairy experiment farm rn operated ut lit beltsville Cell Belt sillo sille ild by file ie united states department of ag the bureau of dairy indus try y uses a six year rotation three cars ars alfalfa anil and three years corn rh lie e pasture Is comparatively compa periam dent ent and does not enter into the rotation except sit lit Inte integrals rals y IT T E woodward lit in outlining the rotation ot atlon says in changing from ars an to alfalfa the ground is 1 the fall utter after the corn Is removed ir r filase the land is then plowed id ad left in the rough to allow pulver tion by freezing the alfalfa is WB am about the hie first of april aid pro 13 ces two small cuttings the first year aln IB tha hanging changing nging front from alfalfa to t corti corn i first cutting of alfalfa alfil fa Is iq removed i i latter part pan of may tile the ground i 1 i wed owed and corn is planted for silage ilage mire is applied for cah cadi chop of ira I 1 D except the one following the alfa ila and in sui summer umer when it cannot used nn in tile corn or alfalfa it is ced on the pastures lime lillie is ap led d acry six years vears pr arelous pre elous ious to sow g tile alfalfa A L of six pounds or of orchard lass iss four of timothy three of red p 1 four of bluegrass four of red over iter and two of alside alsike sowed bowed about biffl ml 1 on land that lias has been fill fall wed and provides pasture 60 int at june if the first crop of newly vin alfalfa is weedy it is made into ay y but instead of giving it barn altce ace if I 1 Is stacked in the pasture ilch kilell is fenced so cows can eat it hen en pastures are short and dry |