The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Light winter and late spring
 pastured ...s..-S ...-......s..1o.7 .@ Late spring psstused .......lt:o ,st Not pastnred .2S.2 1.49
 The quality of the wheat from the spring pastursd plots was auife inferior while that from the others tested from sl to @ pounds per busheL The unpastrr- ed plots were the earliest in maturing. but were very iitle different from the atizerp. with the exception Of the spring pastiired plots. land as compared with, these there was several days difference.
 No rust or chinch bugs bothered these plots 10 speak of. and sverything was fa- vorabie for good crop. The continued wet weather might be said to have made the conditions for pasturing unfavorable. but it was quite fortunate that rains com. tinued up to harvest 70 as not to allow the ground to bake after being tramped while wet. Just about the time the wheat was heading. the ground was getting quito dry. and if this Title drought had not been broken just when It was by abundant rain it is doubtful # the wheat on the pastured ground would have been worth cut.lng. If the conditions had been suit. able for the development of the rust. the paetured plots. pRrticularly the spring pastursd. wouid have suffered much more than the plots not pastured.--American Asriculturist
 Steer Feeding in the Southwest.
 The steer feeding experiments as the Oklahoma Experiment Station the con- fne winter will include twenty-five two year old grade steers and those will Jbe divided into five lots of Ave steers each. Each lot will be fattened on a different ration. and the following combinations win be used, The amount of feed is for 1000 pounds steer for one day.
 Ration I-Cotton seed. pounds: alfalfa hay. i6 pounds; wheat straw, pounds.
 Ration fT-Cotton seed. pounds; Kaf- fir corn meal. Il pounds: alfalfa hay, 1s pounds; wheat straw. 4 pounds.
 Ration Iu-Cotton seed meal, pounds: shelled corn. F pounds: prairie hay, pounds; wheat straw. 8 pounds.
 Ration IV-Cotton seed meal 10 pounds: wheat straw. 12 pounds (l-s of straw to be cut or chafsed and mixed with meal as lfed)
 Ration v-corn meal. E pounds; alfalfa hay. l2 pounds.
 Rations I, " and V have been used in some of our previous steer feeding exper- tments and are repeated here in order to get further results and enable them to be compared with those from other combi- nations of feeds. Rations II and TIT have not been used in steer feeding work before at this station.
 Rations |, III. " and V furnish the nutrients approximately as given in the feeding standard and from that stand point might be said to be normal rations. Although ration very similar to Ration " Is used considerably. it is g ration that differs widely from the standard
 Ration VI, which consists of corn meal and alfalfa hay, has been under test at this station for several years, and first class results obtained from 1t. Starting with two-years-old steers weighing about i,OoO pounds, they have been successfully fattened In about i've months, in which time they put on 3S5 to 3e5 pounds per steer and consumed 235o to. 2,540 pounds of corn meal and 1,6l4 to 1s17 pounds of alfalfa hay. These figures taken in con- nection with the market cost of feeds in locality will enable the feeder to figure the cost of fattening a steer on this ra- ton. This ration might be varied, and under many conditions by reducing the aifalfa hay one half or one-third and adding some prairie, hay. straw, corn or Kaffir stover. and addtng a pound or two of cotton seed meal in the place of the same amount, of corn meal, and the, addi- ton of pound or two of cotton seed is advisable in many cases.
 With the ruling prices of feeds Ration w. consisting of cotton seed meal and wheat straw, would not be an economical ration, and feeder wanting to make the most out of his operations should not use # ,alth ough steers have been put in mar ketable condition on it and at a profit in certain seasons, With corn costing as much as the cotton seed meal or even a third more it would be profitable to re- place a portion of the cotton seed meal with 1t. Good results are expected from Ration IT, which consists of cotton seed. Kafir corn meal, alfalfa hay, and wheat straw. The cotton seed will act as a d. visor in the Kafflr meal, preventing, the steer from bolting it and leaving 1t in a more open condition in the stomach. Ra- ton V, cotton seed. alfalfa and wheat straw. is not introduced as a feasible ra- ton for the average conditions. It was found in our previous experiments that the cotton seed as the whole grain and fed with carbonaceous roughage as wheat straw and prairie hay. was a failure for fattening steers, but when fed with a highly nitrogenous roughage as alfalfa hay very good gains were received The latter combination was fed a portion of the fattening period and the time was too short to give much idea what results might be obtained on feeding the ration four to five months.-Press Bulletin. Ok lahoma Experiment Station.
 Fall Flowing.
 When all crops are safely housed keep the teams at work breaking the land in- tended to be cropped next year. Up to the end of this month land so broken may be and should be seeded in rye or rye and English vetch. This will make a cover crop to prevent teaching of the fertility out of the soil uring the winter and spring and will make grazing and humus when plowed down, or an early forage crop. Do not hesitate. however. to blow ali land intended to be cropped next year, wheth- CT 1t can be seeded or not and blow it deply, thus enabling 1t to hold and store moisture for the needs of the coming crop and permit of the aeration of the soil and the reduction of inert plant food into an available condition. Recent investiga- tion has shown that all soils contain near ly the same amount of the three principal elements of plant food dissoIvable by wa- ter. and that one Of the greatest factors in plant production is the reduction of the soil by blowing and cultivation into such fine condition as will permit of the action of the water content of tba zoiI