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Harrvstinj ia Ttnocutt HARVESTING OATS AND PLANTING - LEGUMINOUS CROPS IN THE SOUTH Br G. H. Alfokd of the 1 H C Serr.ce Burua It Is now time to plan for the har vesting bf ouf oat crop. If we do not own a good mowing machine, or better still, a good binder, now. is the time to buy one. The cradle is too slow and the waste when using a cradle is enormous. One binder will harvest from 80 to 100 acres ? eight acres per day. One or more farmers in every neighbor hood should own a good binder. Th^ binder will generally pay for itself in one season. A mowing machine will often do the work for several farmers in a neighborhood. Where one fanner can not afford to buy a mower for Ms own use, several farmers can purchase one. One fanner will often find it pruiltabie to own a mower orJ>inder and work for his neighbors at a reasonable price. Now is the time to get our mowers and binders ready for work. Let us sharpen the sickles, oil the bearings and test the machines on the grass be fore our oats are ready to cut. It is also advisable to have an extra blade i tongue, a knife, and several extra wings and arms for the reel ready beforehand for repairing breakages. W e should harvest our oat crop early. Cutting should begin as soon as about 75 per cent of the field has turned yellow?Just as soon as all the grain Is in the dough stage. Oats should not be cut while wet from dew or rain. There should be a thresher in every neighborhood for threshing all kinds of seeds such as oats, wheat, rye, barley, kaffir corn, sorghum, grass seed, beans, and peanuts. Many farmers will find it profitable to own a thresher for use on their own farms and they can at the same time be of great service to their neighbors by threshing for them at a reasonable price. The oats should be threshed as soon as possible, but should not be threshed when grain is wet from either rain or dew. Store oats In bulk and not over three feet deep. Besure and examine grain daily for at least, three weeks and turn with shovel, if there are any indi cations of heating. The packed, crusted soil should not be exposed to the sun's rays a single day after oats are cut. We should U3e a disk harrow and make the surface for two or three inches as fine as possible for a cow pea, soy bean or peanut crop. By the use of the disk harrow, we' can thoroughly prepare several acres of stubble land everyday for these crops. At this season of the year we are usually very busy and are ?often unable to spare the necessary time to break the stubble land with a plow. These leguminous crops are valuable od account of the nitrogen and the humus-maklng organic matter they contain. When they are harvested to be fed to live stock, nearly half the nitrogen and humus-maklng materials are left In the -roots and In the bottom of the stems and in the leaves, and other portions of the plants not ob tained in gathering the crops. The resultsof the Calhoun, La.,' experiment station show that one acre of Spanish peanuts grown on poor pine land con tained 192 pounds of nitrogen; an acre of cow peas, 106 pounds; and an acre of ?oy beans, 190 pounds. These crops made from two to three and a half tons of feed stuff, richer in food elements than wheat bran. When such feed raff can be grown after oats and fed to stock without serious loss of fertiliz ing value, Is there any excuse for culti vating poor land and for having poor HvestoekY TIM advantages of growlrig cowpea crops are briefly summarised by tbe Louisiana experiment station as fol low*: First, the row pea Is a nitrogen gatharer-.second.ltshsdes the soil In the summer, keeping it In acondltlcki most ?citable to the most rapid nitrlflca tlon and leave* It friable and loose and in the best possible condition for fu ture crop*; third, It has a large root development, and hence pump* up from a great depth and a large area the water, and with it the mineral needed It; tbe plant; fourth. Its adapt ability to all kind* of soils? stlffest clay* to the moat porous sand, fartile alluvial bottom* to barren upland; flfth it stands the heat and. hot sunshine of hot climate*; sixth, it* rapid growth enable* us to grow two crop* on tlie same soil; seventh, when sown thickly, it shade* the soil effectually, smother ing oat all weed* and grasses, and thus serves ss a cleansing crop; eighth, it is the beat preparatory crop known to the southern farmers? every kind of crop grows wall after it; ninth, It famish a moat excellent hay and a mcmt excellent food In large quantities for man and beast The following is a summary of Far mers' Bulletin, Ko. 328: In 1806 the farm described In this bulletin pro duced one-fuurth bale of cotton and fifteen bushels of corn par acre. In 1006, after a crop of cowpeas, ft pro duced one-half bal* of cotton and thirty-four bushel? of corn to the. acre. After cowpeas and an application of 300 pounds of commercial fertilizer, nearly three-fourthe of a bale of cot top to the acre: and after cow peas and clover continuously for two years, oh* bale of cotton . er icre. This moving machine, thresher and hay press made It possible to utilize the cowp^a grown on this farm not only for feed and seed but also as a source of considerable revenue. The mowing machine, the thresher and the hay press will make the cow pea one of the most profitable crops that can be grown. The following is a summary of Far mers' Bulletin No. 372: Where Inten sive farming Is followed, the soy bean Is the best annual legume to grow for forage in the .southern part of the cotton belt. The soy bean whether used as hay, grain, or ensilage Is a very valuable live stock feed. Soy bean hay Is practically identical in feeding value with alfalfa and yfelds from two to three tons per acre. Soy-bean grain is more valuable than cotton seed meal as a supplementary feed in the production of pork, mutton, wool, beef, milk and butter. A bushel of soy beans Is at least twice as val uable for feed as a bushel of corn. As the grain is' hard. It Is usually desirable to grind It into meal for feeding. This is best done by mixing with corn before grinding to prevent gumming the mill'. A mowing machine or a binder can be used to harvest the soy bean. A binder can be used only with the tall varieties. The threshing can be don* with a grain thresher by using blank concaves and running the cylinder much lower than for small grain The growing of soy beans after oats and on other land and the use of mow ing machines, threshers, and hay presses means rich land, fat stock, and more prosperous times. The fact that Spanish peanuts will produce good crops on comparatively poor land when well fertilized and cultivated should encourage us to grow them as a substitute for a large part of the corn and hays usually fed to all. kinds of stock Professor Duggar at the Auburn, Ala., station found an acreofSpanlsh'peanutsonpoorgravelly land produced 000 pounds of live weight of hogs. This was after the tops had been cut with a mower and saved for hay The growing of pea nuts after oats will add much to the fertility of the soil, promote the rais ing. of good livestock, and add to the ; bank account. Planting cowpeas and soy heans in j rows about 30 inches apart saves seed and brings greater returns in yields of seedandhay Theeiperiment station results show that the increase in both seed and hay obtained when the seed isdrllled is more than sufheientto pay for the additional expense in drilling and cultivating the crop Plant the cowpeas, soy beans and peanuts on the level and cultivate on the luvel with a disk harrow, a spring tooth harrow, a one or two-horseculti. vator or a heel sweep. We can then cut two or three rows atone tim* with our mowing machines S We should grow more oats and other ?mall grain crops, and legumlnouscrop* to enrich our laodx and furnish feed for more good livestock; and use more labor-saving machinery such as mow. ing machines, hay rakes tedders binders and hay presses BURNING STUBBLE * Frank Connolly, of Brant, Alt*., writes as follow*: "There Is a differ ence of opinion here as to whether burning stubble before plowing, or (rut before breaking, Is a benefit or detriment to the soil." We neTer advise the burning of stubble on land that Is not unusually fertile. Of course under certain cir cumstances It Is liest to burn the stutf ble and get It out of the way, but when one bums a ton of straw he Is prac tically losing 92.39 worth of fertilizer and this does not take Into consldera tlon the value of this straw as humus la the soil. The best way to prepare your land would be to plow In the fall and then to harrow In the spring before using the drill, but of course a* this is Im possible now, the only thing w>u can do is to prepare your land ayWell as you can this spring Xttlatf seeding time. j Where the stubble Is very heavy, Indicating that the land Is unusually fertile, and in your particular case. It probably would be the best thing to burn the stubble, as it prevents the land warming up early in the spring, and it also reduces the danger due to drought. But the best way, If the ?tubbl* Is not heavy, is to plow the. land and follow the plo^ with a land packer This will re-establish the soil capillarity; than If you form a dust mulch by using the pec tooth harrow. It will prevent the evaporation of toll moUtma. ROTATION OF CROPS" ?*p ly to ? MlckJgM Conupoadnt "I am (rowing sugar beets and my land seems to be decreasing In produo tlon. What rotation can I use?" ' In some localities It has been found that beets do beat following alfalfa, corn and small grains. ? very good rotation is as follows: First, wheat; second year, beets; then clover for two years, last crop being plowed under; then potatoes, and the rotation re peated. If alfalfa can be grown In your locality It Is a good plan to In clude this In the rotation. In Montana the best rotation for beet raising Is as follows: Wheat, clover, oats, sugar beets, barley and peas. In Utah the following rotation gives good satisfaction: First year, sugar beets: second year, peas and oats for forage; third year, sugar beets; fourth year, oats, seeded to alfalfa; fifth year, alfalfa. How crum aaparalloa taku placa la modan aaparator howl "D" dirt amatn cbaabo dalrv maid'* DISEASES OF "'-.TIMBERS Reply to C. V. Fo:j . "I have trouble with my cucumbers dying too early. They get some kind of yellow spotB In the leaves and the vines die before they get dope bearing I have been using bordeaux mixture I used blue stone. Is this the same I as copper sulphate? When should [ lime be added to the soil?" , The disease attacking our corre spondent's cucumber vines Is known as "downy mildew," a parasitic fungus. Bordeaux mixture is the best remedy you can use; but this will have no effect if the fungus has gained con- : siderable headway. Bordeaux mixture should be made as follows : For young plants ? 3 lbs. copper sul phate, 6 lbe. lime to 50 gal Ions of water. When the plants get older, use 4 Its. copper sulphate, 6 lbs. lime to 50 gal lons of water. Blue stone is the commercial name for copper sulphate. The beneficial element In lltoe Is calcium, and It should be applied on soils that are acid in nature. On soils that are not in this condition, lime will be of little or no benefit'. The acidity of the soil may be determined by the use of litmus paper, which may be obtained at almost any drug store. Press the moist soil around the blue litmus paper for ten or fifteen minutes. If the paper Is now red or pink In color It will Indicate that your soil is add. There areelghtor ten dlfferentklnds of commercial lime, but where It is possible to obtain finely ground lime stone, this Is the most desirable form to use. It supplies the necessary cal cium, and yet the action on the vege table matter Is not as severe as it Is with other forms of lime. We regret to say that the Service Bureau does not have Farmers' Bulle tins for general distribution, but you will be able to obtain these by writing the U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Division of Publications, W ashlngton, D. C. If we cau be of farther service at any time, we will be pleased to hear from you. T^sThe TaxJPavpr olXouisbu/g This is the mVith to URt your taxes. 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