The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-05

and that a nutritive ratio ofs Is may be just as satisfactory for fairly mature cattle as one more narrow. For Western conditions 1t Is certainly more profitable.
 COncIusionss
 CD With present prices for both corn and beef greater consideration must be given to the character and quantity of roughness fed in connec- ton with corn to fattening cattle.
 CD That alfalfa hay is pronounced- ly superior to prairie hay for beef production and that the more rapid the extension of the area of the land devoted to the production of alfalfa. supplanting the less valuable and lower yielding native hay. the more rapid will be the production of wealth from our soil.
 (3) That native prairie hay, if for any reason it Is most available for feeding purposes, should not be fed with corn alone. but rather with corn supplemented with a small quantity of some protein food, such as oil meal. cotten seed meal or gluten meal, to give more nearly balance of nutri- euts in keeping with animal require ments.
 C4) That corn stalks cut immedi- ately after the ears ripep possess food value which cannot consistently be ignored by the farmer and that ex- isting land values warrant the larger utilization of this roughness by the adoption of methods of harvesting that will make such material more valuable for feeding purposes.
 Fall Flowing and subsOiIing.
 correspondent in Abbeville, s. C., asks for our opinion on subsoiling and fall blowing. and as this subject Is timely we will try to set forth our views, although we do not expect they will coincide with those of all our readers.
 In the first place we wish to state that we had the subsoiiing fever once but we have gotten over 1t. We do not subsoif any more, and we know of a great many others also who have thrown aside their subsoil blows and abandoned the practice.
 Now we do not mean to state that subsoiling will not pay some people | on some land but we do know that 1t does not pay us. If you have a piece | of clay land. or land with a clay sub soil which has never been broken over four inches deep and does not drain | well after rain, but is Inclined to run ltogether, and if your blow will not run over six inches deep at best, 1t will pay you to subsoil such land. You must | do it. however, when the subsOil Is dry l enough 10 cTumDle, or you VIII bN throwing away your work.
 On the other hand, if you have a disc blow which will run ten inches deep and three big mules to pull It. as we have, you will find little or no | use for subsoll blow no matter what kind of land you have.
 The next hest thing to a disc blow is the middle buster" It will run deeper than the ordinary turner and pulverizes the land better. Then be sides two good mules will pull 1t. W' have two of these blows and We us' them. if any thing. more than the disc sThe reader must remember that We ar' talking about clay land and land WILL A clay subsoil If you have a sandl subsoiI the less of 1t you turn up th' better, and even on clay land II is ad visable to take this deepening process by easy stages and go just litle deep CT every wear, as your land grow richer and you get more vegetable mat ter into it.
 Now about fall blowing
 We are of the opinion that ever thls is not what it Is cracked up t' be-" except in special cases. For iel' crops we obtain the best results iron spring blowing when we have time {, | thoroughly prepare the land, and w like to plant crop in freshly preparet soil The only advantage that we se' | in fall blowing is, that 1t may saw some work in the spring for the mar who is content to plant on such land For our part even when we have blow | ed land In the fall, we feel like blowing 1t all over again in the spring W. can't seem to At the land to suit u' | even though we use the cutaway har row thoroughly. The land seems colC | and dead and plants do not grow or t' | suit us: we want to stir it up to let 1T | the air and then work it down fine anc