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vol. xxxv. rjSB-t EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH. N. C SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy BETTER PASTURES ESSENTIAL TAKING account of what our, pastures are worth, the value they bring in each season in jwiurtf. pounds of beef, of pork, mutton, and Poultry, of eggs, and gallons Qf milk, we find grass a good crop. The Alabama Experiment Station tests show .gains ranging from 170 pounds to 268 pounds a head for steers on pasture alone during grazing seasons of 112 to 154 days. The bulk of Southern milk is produced on grass alone. With the great area of idle lands producing to thevr capacity of good posture grasses the Southern states could increase many times over their out put of livestock and livestock products, and the income from pastures would far overshadow thatrfrom any other crop grown. - First, however, out task is tp make the land already in pasture produce what it should. To do this, most of the South's farmers trtust get a new idea of what pastures are and are not. Many have yet to learn that a pasture is a crop to be planted on pfepdred and; to be fertilised and given such atten- to 32-inch woven wire with three to four barbed wires-on top is used by many farmers. 2. Break the land. Disk it, and harrow it this fall. 3. If stable manure can be spared, spread it on the land. Spread at least a ton of ground limestone to the acre, and from 300 to 500 pounds of acid, phosphate. 4., Where the land is fertile it can be sowed in oats, grass mixtures and clover this fall and next spring, and pastured lightly or not at all the first year. If it is poor, however, sow the land to rye and crimson clover this fall. This can be pastured duringther winter when the ground is dry. 5. Let these crops get a good growth in the spring and plow them under to put some humus in the soil. '-' t:V :' : -V ' TURNING GRASS INTO MILK AT EIGHTY CENTS A GALLON t'on as a crop should have service. '.r;'' - " When this is done the pasture will pay for the A barren, guUied, weed infested hillside covered with bushes, and with only such volunteer grahes hardy enough to live under these conditions is not a Pasture. -Paiinre'atxHowfvey 'and -'in most cases should, be . made on the rougher thin lands unsuited to cultivated crops. A good grass sod is often the only crop that withhold fowdtopr,"W' and mae a profit on it, year after year. ... ? 'j. ' " :.' ' On the. r6uqtt:Tandl where it is. not practicable to prepare the ground thoroughly, a;njtak" be made by clearing yjf briars and bushes, running a furrow every few feet, and planting pieces of Bermuda grass roots, folloztjfylbya and white clover, seed over the m tne Loastat Flam area carpet grass can oe sowea w fjiace aj permuav. To tnake':the:'Hsl(p$uf famevef,. plenty. of'.work,4nTHjghtipte)Jkods are necessary. Onlaltidjtltati . the following suggestions; will be helpful in ywrkwgiM Jf r:-::: steps to: the sturey I, :- . '-- 7- Fence-ihe$d&y A 26 $. To in the season a crop of cowpeas can be grown and profitably cut for hay. 7. Prepare the land and plant a mixture somewhat like the following :' From five to ten pounds each of orchard grass, red top, tall meadow fescue, white clover, bur clover, or red clover on lands suited to it, and. olsike clover in low places. Substitute any grasses that grow well in your neighborhood for those that do not thrive. To, provide a cover crop that will hold the soil to gether while the grasses are getting started, a bushel of oats is often sowed with the grass mixture. - L , . ' '. 8. Scatter Bermuda grass roots in the fall or spring and press them into the soil while it is wet 6t cover lightly.- Sow a "sprinkling of lespedesa seed in February or March. These crops form the basis of most Southern pastures. 9. Give the plants a chance to make a good sod before pasturing. It -is better to mow the pasture for hay during the first year. This will pay a dividend, and make better grass. . 10. You now have a pasture. Ieep it a pasture by running the mower over it of ten enough to prevent Weeds seeding yby fertilizing and reseeding Jhin spots y and mulching the galled places' with' straw .or" raked up weeds until the Uffdsi gels, a start, and by not Pttturinffi;iQfi ! ! 1 v. -TT iff J. 'rv i j if 1 V f V -. ' i
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