Middletown transcript., 1897-08-28
CLOVER AND TIMOTHY, J
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eest Way to Dispose Of the Hay-Notes
ON Grass Seeding.
Rural New Yorker considers timothy,
hay the most expensive food one can.
feed to cattle. "cloyer hay being far
more nutritious and easier to balance
when fed with grain. It is sound econ
omy to sell the timothy hay to horsemen
and use the money to buy grain to feed
with ensilage or clover hay. Some dairy
men seed the fields most distant from
the barn to timothy, using chemical
fertilizers. This nay crop is all sold
and really pays the grain bill for the
farm. ALI the stable manure is crowd
ed upon the fields nearest the barn, and
these are planted to ensilage corn with
clover every three or four years. The
COW food on such farms is mostly corn
ensilage, clover hay and such grain
food as oottonseed meal, bran and other
foods rich in muscle makers. As gen
eral thing dairymen who use the silo
are feeding less and less dry hay. In
some cases only three or five pounds per
day are fed. The authority quoted adds:
On our own farm we have no timothy
at all. We shall keep the horses this
year on oats and barley cut in the milk
and cured like hay. The cows will have
millet hay, cowpea vines and the stalks
of sweet corn, either put into the silo or
field cured, cut and steamed. This
fall we expect to seed down ten acres
to timothy, using fertilizers entirely,
the hay to be sold. We are certain that
by feeding cat hay, millet and corn fod--
der with ensilage you can certainly
save for sale at least one ton of hay that
each of your COWS is now eating. Glover
hay cut In the bloom and well cured is
the ideal dry fodder for dairy cows.
We put next to it the dry, we'll cured
stalks of the medium sized varieties of
sweet corn. Next we like oats, wheat
or barley cut In the milk and well dried
and, from our experience, we would
prefer ton of such fodder to Q tn of
good timothy for milk productic.,.
It Is common practice in st..' St
ern Pennsylvania to SOW timc;--. the
fall with wheat and clover the
spring. A West Chester (Pa) corre-
spondent, writing to the journal already
quoted, says: "In this way | never
failed but once to get catch Of one or
both. II the fall is wet the timothy
sometimes so covers the ground as to
prevent the clover catching. ! find it
better, on this account, to seed rather
lightly with timothy. If tirnethy is
sown alone, the ground is very liable to
wash in winter. He adds:
sit isbetter to SOW wheat in this dairy
region, where straw is a necessity. My
last years wheatfield is, this spring,
covered thickly with beautiful coat OF
green, in some parts about all Timothy,
In others mostly clover or the two
mixed. Why this difference I am un-
able to explain. The wheat made 9S
bushels to the acre and was sold fors9O
cents per bushel. Last years new seed
ing was moved twice and is now in
places neaxly all clover. Abeut the sur
est way to obtain good catch of grass
is,to make the ground good; then some
thing Is Bound to grow. Clever seed
should be sown very early. before the
frost is out and the ground settled,
though many wait till it cracks open in
April. Much of the seed falls in the
cracks too deep and never grows.