Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-09

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: out all crops raised on the farm
to stock and hauling out th,
manure. How can it be expect
f ed of this land to yield an incom,
by raising wheat every year ane
burning all the straw and hanlins
, wheat to market. Watch Easter
Oregon where they raise nothing
but wheat, and see how soon tha
land will be gone.
/ have been sowing alfalfa the
last two springs with very gooo
results. I sowed two acres on Z
poor clay point on May, 20,
i 1904. l used inoculated dirt
from the agricultural college al.
falta bed. The ground was not
worked down as fine as it should
be, and an extremely dry season
from April to November, but cut
two crops this year, and on May
70, 1905, sowed three acres more
or much better land, and worked
the ground down fine, plowed it
extra deep, disced it twice, rolled
three times, narrowed four times
besides the ground was we'll
manured before blowing. I sow
ed forty pounds of inoculated al
falfa seed on the three acres, with
fifty pounds of land plaster per
acre; land plaster and seed sown
same day and narrowed in to-
gether. The first month the best
of it was seven inches high, at
two months thirteen inches; after
that kept it moved close to the
ground to keep weeds down.
The stand cannot be any better;
an eastern man saw it and said
it was the best stand that he ever
saw.
So manv beginners do not
know what is the matter with
the alfalfa when it is about six or
eight inches high and the leaves
turn white and look sickly as it
it were dying; it grows too fast
for the root to support the top,
and it should be cut every time
it looks sickly. So many people
don't thoroughly understand how
land plaster works on the soil.
Some may sow it on clover after
rain or heavy dew; that don't do
any good, it should be sown on
the ground as it does the plant
no good until it is washed off
in soil; it unlocks the soil so that
plants feed from it, is the nearest
way can explain it. 1t takes
500 parts of water to one gallon
of land plaster. If seed is sown
in spring after rains are over the
land plaster will not do any good
until rains come. I sowed a |
small field to alsiks and one to
red clover last spring; both did
very we'll.
I have sowed ten acres of red
clover this fall; it may freeze out
and lose the soil. I am told that
the land plaster snould not be
sowed until February.
One more thing I want to
speak OF to eastern men that
come from a corn country and
feed hogs; that is artichokes. 1
planted patch May 80, 1905,
size of patch So steps long, II
steps wide or IS rows 3 feet 6
inches apart, IS rods long, 3
rods wide, and we pulled fifty
two sacks-just what pulled up
with tops; have not dug them
up yet. At that rate would be
over 5000 bushels to the acre;
that is better than corn field of
seventy bushels to the acre. 4
am satisfied with the artichokes
and alfalfa and clover pasture.
Hogs can be raised cheaper than
ina corn country. l am told that
one man fattened out ninety head
of hogs on five acres of artichokes
and when hogs are raised on this
kind of feed they don't die with
cholera, where in corn country
we figured on losing nearly all
our hogs every four years with
cholera. l am not talking
through my hat; these are facts.
Anyone wishing to try these clo-
vers or artichokes and want seed,
I keep them for sale; also inocu-
lated seed and land plasture. |
have the government incubation
for vetch, alsike, alfalfa, red clo-
yer and can furnish inocuiated
seed. Write before it is needed
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