The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-11
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I each year-any OF which may ripen
ahead of consumption is cured for win
ter use.
Sorghum and peas grown together
is fine feeding. We take an acre on
which 40 or so loads of manure is
spread, before blowing, break with
Hancock rotary plow five horses, fol
low with subsoiler two horses, roll down
fiat, SOW pecks peas, one half bushel
sorghum, cut in with disc harrow four
horses, drag twice with Thomas har-
row. Just try this one time il you
want feed. When sorghum leaves are
well spread we begin to feed, and we
always see an increase in milk flow.
peas and German millet produces
our favorite winter forage to go with
silage, on clean, mellow seed bed.
We disc in 3 pecks and roll. When
peas begin to sprout bushel of millet
is soWn and bushed in-the weeder is
nice for that. To grow a big crop use
manure literally. Cut for hay when
millet blooms-never mind condition
Of peas. We windrow same day we
NOV, let lay "a hours if hot weather,
then put in barn from windrow.
IF I can have plenty of silage and
plenty of pea milIet hay ell winter 1
can make milk and not be depending
on cotton oil mills or -four mills. Both
are greedy concerns, ready to grab
every dollar the milk man gets.
Il will not mention silo or silage.
There are present thcse who can tell
all about this great plan for winter
feed. I do wish to speak about the
dry corn fodder. Unless q farmer has
more forage than he can haul to the
barn or stack, by all means the corn
should be cut close to the ground at
fodder pulling, stack on tripod, leave
until cured, husk corn off and feed-it
will surprise any farmer to see cattle,
horses and sheep pick at the corn stover
for hours after having had full feed
in barn.
I'VE cut corn with the Mccormick
harvester, husk and cut with husker,
feed the cut stover with silage during
winter or mix with bran and meal and
feed as mixed feed, or dry-it is good
anyway.
I have seen tons upon tons of stalks
and fodder left standing in corn fields
after corn was gathered and by De.
cember, and all winter, and even as
late as June, have seen farmers who
discarded such excellent fodder, haul
cotton seed hulIs to 10 miles and pay
So to 81 per ton for it. There is leak
through which many dollars from
farmers is flowing to the bank account
of the American Cotton Oil Go.
''It all the corn growing now in
Cabarrus county could be saved en-
tirely the new oil mill would find few
farmers to buy their hulls.
"Just for the big of the thing
throw away $40 to $I5 each year for
red clover seed. Tread 80 much about
red clover, and in fact, years ago had
such fine crops to grow that just can
not drop it. However, the crop has fail.
ed with US for six years. Valuable as
clover is, am not convinced that it ia
better or more profitable than pea mil
let hay. We have concluded to drop
clover and SOW peas. Sow at every
opportunity and on all available land
from May 1st to July 2Oth. If we do
not cut vine the crop is paying one.
''At Double Oaks we usually feed
pea vines August. September and Oc-
tober. O1e or two acres are mown
and raked when wilted and put in large
cocks. AS needed we haul to COWS.
Have had such out in three days rain
but suffered DO loss. Cutting lot at
one time is a saving of time, besides
the whiting of vines is an advantage,
as the milk will not tssie 90 strong Of
the pea favor.
while red clover has failed for ug,
we have had great success with the
crimson. We like it better each year
and SOW larger fields than we did be-
fore. We learned the value of this
plant. We seed crimson clover with
oats-soW in August or September
peck of crimson to 1 bushel of oats per
acre. II land is moist at time of SOW
ing we always get good results. We
SOW with rye, also with millet, and last
August sorghum was tried bushel
sorghum seed to 1 peck clover. Out
sorghum as hay about the middle Of
October. When raked up we found
fine stand of clover, which went
through winter safe and made splen-
did growth in spring. We shall try
same plan this year. Out clover when