Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-04-14
WHAT vETcH WILL DO.
Ii. Brooks Gives His Expert
ences and ConcIu sions-
/, Very Interesting.


/ Very Interesting.
/ ED. GAzETTE-Ever since
coming to Oregon I have been
believer that vetch was one of
the most profitable crops raised in
the state. I now think more OF
it than ever, as I have just made
Ia test by feeding three steers,
. three years old, for 80 days on
vetch, hay and water, without
bit of grain.
They gained 245 pounds, or
1914 each. They were driven
, three blocks and weighed on Feb.
I28, their weight then was 2, $40.
They were then driven to
my farm and fed until March
80, then driven back six miles to
the scales on which they were
first weighed, and their weight
was found to be 2,7o5 pounds.
These cattle were weighed on
Mr.. Bodine's scales at the old
carriage factory, and if anyone
| doubts these figures they can go
. and see Mr.. Bodine and see the
! weights and dates. If these cattle
had gained 81 pounds more
t apiece there would have been a
, gain of three pounds each per
: day. The stock were not of the
S best kind for rapid fattening, be-
t ing of mixed breed-part Jersey
It and Holstein.
b Farmers, the time is coming
when more stock can be raised
here at less cost; when every
farmer has a field of vetch fol
hay and a fine alfalfa field fol
pasture. 1 know vetch can be
raised successfully, and believe
: from what experience I have had
: with alfalfa that It can be sue
: cessfully raised in this state
q where there is a good soil six
: feet deep-I mean where there is
% six feet of good soil before i
. strikes rock. The better tht
% . soil and deeper the roots can g
. the better the yield.
- 1t is considerable cost ant
:. trouble to get it started the frs
:, = year, but after that, if you get
= good stand, you will be payet
!. for your trouble and expense
The two acres have, sowed Ma,
26, 1904, the best of it is now 2,
inches high and the roots ru1
=. down two feet. This was sowet
" " on a clay side hill, one of th
- poorest spots on the plow lam
portion of the farm.
er Anyone wishing to try alfalfa
&c if they buy twenty go pounds c
te more seed of me, will Civ
h. them directions for preparing tn
re ground, how and when to SOW
= what to sow with, lnoculating
n material, and care of the fir.
= year. I am to furnish the bes
- clean seed that can be purchased
oe as I am in the seed business
Write for anything you want i
th grass, clover, or grain seeds, stoc
m- or poultry. If do no: have it 9
ne hand, will get it. During tt
He past year / have shipped vets
hv seed to nearly every state in tt
re- Union and Canada. I belle,
les 1 have sold more vetch seed thu
any farmer in the United State
R. Two things more I want
toispeak of-good roads and ele
ng tric lights. A great many farr
alt ers now have free rural mail d
The livery, and the Independent tel
or-Ephones in their houses, and see
ia quite satisfied with both. OF t
onllatter, I have not heard of o.
raj being ordered out.
ce, The next thing we want
toI good roads, SO that our crops m
oldtbe hauled to market at any til
so. of the year, when the prices
best, How can. this be broug
| a about? A little higher tax
and awhile. 1t is yet too early
Ire, talk electric lights in the far
en- Jer's home and cut off Rocket
tor ler's kerosene bill. Has a
sle. farmer figured on this questie
Suppose all persons having
Independent telephones install