FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1917
PAGE THREE
RAPE MAKES EXCELLENT PASTURE FOR HOGS
MOST URGENT NEED
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CITIZENS MUST SEE THAT PRE
VENTABLE FIRES ARE REDUC
ED TO MINIMUM.
ABUNDANT HARVEST READY
TI1E KL . iEW: KEIDSVILL E, N. 0.
CAROLINA
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AN ACRE OF RAPE AND RYE.
When sown In September, or earlier, an acre of this kind of pasture
affords, on the average, grazing for six 100-pound fattening pigs from the
middle of October to May, provided a half ration of grain ft used as a supplement
By C. B. WILLIAMS, Chief,' Division
of Agronomy, N. C. Experiment
i Station, West-Raleigh.
The rape plant closely resembles
the ruta-baga during its early stages
of growth; in fact, so close is this re
semblance that often an experienced
grower cannot distinguish between
them. Its root system, however, is
more like that of the cabbage. It
liken cool weather and will grow dur
ing any portion of the year after se
vere freezing weather is passed. It
will endure pretty severe cold weather
la the fall and winter without being ma
terially injured; in fact, it may be used
for pasturage after, being frozen, pro-
Tided stock are kept off while it is
frozen. It does not make much growfh
during the hot, dry months of mid
summer. Under ordinary conditions
the plants will attain a height of 18
inches to 2 feet or more. The Dwarf
Essex variety of the crop is best suit
ed for us under Southern conditions.
, Possibilities of the Crop. '...
Farmers are becoming more and
more interested in the production of
green crops for fall, winter and early
spring grazing. Especially is this true
of those who are engaged in the rais
ing of hogs and poultry. For winter
pasturage an acre or two of this crop
will supply many tons of nutritious
feed at the time of the year when
green feeds are scarce. It has been
fully demonstrated by repeated trials
that an acre of rape properly seed
ad' on good rich land will produce as
much pork when used as a hog pas
ture as the same acre of land culti
vated In corn. The rape can be grown
much cheaper than the corn, as it
will not require any cultivation, and
the preparation of the seed bed and
seeding will be about the same tor
both. The hogs will harvest the rape
crop, while the com must be harvest
ad by tha farmer himself. Jt should
fee remembered, however, that the
acreage of rape that can be profitably
utilized, for pasturage on the average
farm is limited, it usaully not being
ttore than two or three acres.
In feeding experiments at the Ala
bama Station running for 147 days
(November 9-April 5) with pigs weigh-
" . . Am m l
ing approximately eo pounas eocu i
the beginning of the experiment, it was
found that the two lots of pigs fed
en a ration of two parts of corn and
one part of wheat shorts and allowed
the use of a rape pasture during tne
ferlod, produced pork oa an average
of 34.4 per cent less cost per pound,
counting the cost of providing the
rape pasture, than did another lot
fed on the same ration and confined in
dry lots. In other words, the lots fat
tened on rape pasture, supplemented
with the necessary amount of the ra
tion of corn and wheat shorts, made
very satisfactory profit, while the lot
fattened on the ration of corn and
wheat shorts alone in dry lots afford
ed little or no profit
' Soil and Its Preparation.
Rap Is best adapted for growth on
deep, rich, mellow, loamy soil that
Is fairly well stored with humus. . It
foes not do well on the very light
sandy or stiff day soils because they
are deflicient fh organic matter. Any
oil that will produce wheat and corn
well will be found suited for the
growth of rape. In preparing the
land tt should be well broken, then
thoroughly harrowed into a fine, clean
seed bed, as is usually done for tur
nips or ruta bagas. It the land has
a liberal application of manure the
previous year, so much the better.
-On average land It will be well to
applf broadcast over tha land. Just
after breaking and before harrowing,
about S00 to 500 pound per acre of
a fertiliser containing t to 10 per cent
available phosphoric acid, 4 to 6 per
sent potash, and 3 to 4 per cent nltro-
. ten.
Seeding.
For the Coastal Plain and Piedmont
lections, the spring seeding may be
made during March or early in April,
and the fall seeding any time between
August 20 and October 15. In the
mountain section the spring seeding
will have to be made In April and the
tall seedicg during the Utter part of
July or early in August in order to
pt bt?t reiuitl. Jfcj p teed axa
sown broadcast alone or with other
crops like small grains and crimson
clover. In sowing with small grains
the rye, oats, or wheat seed should
first be drilled in or sown broadcast
and covered an inch deep and then
the rape seed sown broadcast and
lightly covered by means of a light
smoothing harrow or brush. Where
the rape is used alone, 4 or 6 pounds
of seed per acre will be sufficient. A
good seeding, when sown with oats,
would be 1 bushels of Red Rust
Proof or Appier oats with about 2 to
3 pounds of Dwarf Essex rape seed.
Rye at the rate "of 2 pecks or wheat
at the rate of 4 pecks per acre may
be substituted for the oats if found
desirable to make the substitution.
Another mixture that has been found
to give good results in supplying pas
turage for hogs consists of a seeding in North Carolina so far,
Every Farmer, Farm Wife, Girl, Boy:
and Employee on Farm Must See
That No Food Crops Are Destroyed
By Fire.
Recent reports from sections oi
North Carolina telling of alleged up
risings against the selective draft
when sifted down proved to be purely
unproven rumors or cases of protest
made by persons thoroughly ignorant
of the law providing for the selective
draft. It is unfortunate that the re
port should have gone out to newspa
pers throughout the nation leaving the
impression that there might be an
organized protest or a protest of any
proportion from North Carolina against
a condition such as the country now
faces. North Carolina is fortunate in
being more than 99 per cent. Ameri
can. Recent war census ngures snow
that less than one per cent of the
population of' the state is foreign
born. The people of North Carolina
will be found always ready to support
the powers that have charge of the
conduct of the war that has been
thrust upon America.
In some parts of the country serious
complications have arisen with indus
trial socialistic organizations. State
and county officials and in some in
stances troops have had to be called
to cope with the situation. ' In the
Dakotas army officers have been warn
ed of an organized plot to destroy
great crops of grain as it is harvested
and stored. Throughout various parts
of the country have come reports of
arrests of supposed German spies or
pro-German agitators. But none of
this sort of activitiy has been reported
made up of 2 to 3 pecks of rye, 5 to
6 pounds of crimson clover, and 2
pounds of Dwarf Essex rape seed. This
latter mixture has proven particularly
valuable for the mountain section tor
There remains but one enemy of the
people of North Carolina and that
enemy by proper effort is the easiest
of them all to cope with. It is care
lessness. Abundant crops are now
elevation less than 2,800 , feet above ready to harvest or have already been
sea-level. Usually with rape alone or harvested. Tie urgent need in North
seeded in the mixtures indicated abova Carolina is what may be termed a
the grazing may be started usually burning need. It is that every
within thirty to sixty days after seed- farmer, every farm wife, every farm
ing. Frequently during a favorable employee, every boy and every girl on
season the rape may be lightly grazed very farm In the state should use
by pigs three to four weeks after seed- every care to see that these food crons
ing.
Precautions In Grazing.
In pasturing rape the hogs should i
not be allowed on it until the plants
are at least 10 to 12 inches high, for
if pastured before this time the young
plants will be likely to be pulled up
and this cotton is protected against the
danger of destruction by fire.
North Carolinians have little to fear
from alien enemies or their sympa
thizers because there are few if any
here. Incendiary fires are few and
thoee that occur" are the outgrowth of
and killed. Care should be exercised, personal enmity and not the acts of
too, that the number of hogs on the
pasture is not so large as to keep the
rape too closely grazed, for such would
prove fatal to the plants and the life
of the pasture would thereby be ma
terially shortened. After being grazed,
the plants should ba given an oppor ,
enemy agents. It is incumbent upon
every citizen to see that preventable
fires are reduced to a mnimum. Every
ounce of food destroyed or unnecesarl
ly consumed is an ounce of treason
ignorantly or intentionally committed.
The fact that insurance is carried
tunity to get well started into growth and that the value of the burned food-
before being grazed again. By diyid- stuffs may ba collected in money does
ing the field into lots these may be not even tend to mitigate the loss,
pastured in succession. If sown on When foodstuffs burn in a time like
good land and properly handled one this money will not replace it. Every
acre of rape will provide grazing for ounce of foodstuffs produced Is needed
ten or twelve hogs for something Ilka somewhere while thousands are suf-
two or three months or more.
PREPARING FOR A LARGER
CROP OF WHEAT THIS YEAR
FLOUR WILL BE HIGH NEXT YEAR
AND FARMERS SHOULD IN
CREASE THEIR CROP.
By C. B. Williams, Chief Division oi
Agronomy, N. C. Extension Ser-
. vice. West Raleigh, N. C.
Indications are that the price of
wheat, and hence, of flour, is to be
high during tha next year. This will
naturally causa a planting of an in.
creased acreage of this erop. Under
normal conditions this would not bTa
promising situation under which to
advise tha growing of mora wheat;
but since Congress will in all probab
ility fix a minimum price for stand
ard grade wheat at primary markets
of 2.00 per bushel it certainly seems
to be advisable this year.
In the Piedmont and mountain sec
tions of tha State, wheat growers
should increase their acreage to some
extent at least Those who have not
grown this crop previously In this
portion of the State might do so with
safety, and In all probability put in
a few acre to good advantage ta
provide for tha needs of tha family.
On soma of tha mora compact
eastern soils, also wheat might b
grown during tha present high prices
with fairly satisfactory results. Or.
dlnarily wa would not recommend tha
growing of this crop but vary little,
it any. In the Coastal Plain Section
of tha State becanse this portion of
tha State is not nearly so well adapt
ed generally to It as tha Western half.
It la highly Important that good
seed shall be secured for planting
purposes. Of the varieties that are
commonly grown Leaps Prolific,
Dlet Mediterranean, Fulta, Purple
Straw, and Fulcaster have shown up
in our teats to ba tha leading
yi:iva, ..r.-- '
fering from the lack of sufficient food.
The duty which so plainly faces North
Carolina is the duty to guard against
themselves. A little care and the
practice of ordinary precaution against
th destruction by fire "of crops In
barns and warehouses will conserve
the foodstuffs that the promised boun
tiful crops will yield. It is the duty
of each to see that carelessness does
not permit, their destruction. If North
Carolina crops are destroyed In barns
or in storage It will not- be by the
hand of an alien enemy or an erratic
pacifist for there are none of this class
'roaming this section, Itor will it be
"an act of Providence," but the inevi
table result of purely human negli
gence. ,:
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