Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-04
PAsruR,No WHEAT.
The Experience Of Kansas Farmer
Proves That 1t Pays.

The Experience of u Kansas Farmer
Proves That 1t Pays.
In regard to pasturing wheat to dc.
stroy the egg of the fly and the value of
wheat for winter grazing l may say
that for the past three or four years
there has been more or less fly in the
carly-sown wheat, and a great many
farmers claim that pasturing destroys
the egg, and think there can be no
question but what close pasturing will
at least destroy enough of the eggs so
there will be no serious damage from the
fly. Last fall there was more fly in the
wheat than ever before; they were in
the early and late sown both. With
feed high and scarce, and fearing dam
age from the fly, most of the farmers
concluded to pasture their wheat, some
turning off when the ground was wet
| and others let their stock run, wet or
dry; and think this season will all
swer the question as to whether you
can destroy the egg of the fly by pastur-
| ing.
1t has been the practice Of some OF
| our farmers to pasture their wheat
more or less every season. and most OF
them claim that the wheat they pasture
makes a better yield than that not
pastured. have heard only one man
claim that he damaged his wheat on"
season by pasturing.
| Fit can be pastured with little or no
damage it is ID matter of the greatest
Importance to the farmer who is rails
ing wheat and stock, because there is
no grazing, winter or summer, that puts
flesh on little, big, young and old as fast
as wheat pasture has in this country
| this season. Late calves that were thin
| in flesh when taken off the cows in the
last of October are fat and sleek now
| Cows milk as well as in June on the
| best of clover and timothy.
| This is the first season l have ever
pasturcd my wheat. A few years ago, and
| for two or three years until sowcd the
! field to clover. / used a twenty-five-acrc
| field for a rye pasture and would turn
on as soon in the fail as the rye was big
enough, and would let the stock run
hogs and calvcs-untn it would begin
| to Joint. and would harvest from thirty
| to thirty-five bushels per acre; SO it
certainly did not damage the rye much
and it would mature as early as rye not
grazed. am pasturing Il onc-hundred-
acre field. Thirty head of calves were
turned on the last of October: later four
cows, ten yearling steers, and four head
of horses, and they cannot keep it down;
|
off, and it win turn them over to the
tamc-grass pasture in good beef form.
| l think the wheat ought to be thick
on the ground and have good fall
| growth, and it will not tramp under
like thin wheat would. l will give you
| one circumstance that would seem to be
conclusive on the ''tramping question
| A herd of three hundred head of big
cattle got into a small wheat field at
| night on two different occasions, and
both the owner of the cattle and of the
wheat considered the wheat about
ruined and agreed to wait until it was
threshed and what it lacked of making
as much as the average yield for the
past five years would be the measure
of damages. The wheat made yield
of thirty-tive bushels per acrc-thc best
crop ever raised on the ticld.-T o.
| Ford in H>cpGcrs' Gazette,