The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-03

PIantf g Four Lots in . Succession or
 crops For Hogs.
 Your plan for lots for hog pasture is in the main a good one. The chlei change needed. I think, IS to get wa ter into more than one Of the lots so that hogs would not have to run through all four lots for water, thus preventing the 2apid succession or crops that should be grown. However, assuming that you can get water Tn only one lot, and that the crops thae you have selected are suitable to your soil I would suggest the folloWing slight changes in your plan. on iot one. not yet provided Tor ana WheIS you desire winter pasture. recommend a mixture per acre of one and one halt bushels of southern grown rye Tive hounds of Dwarf Essex rape, with or without a third Aeed, namely six pounds crimson clover. Omit the crimson cloV- CT if you are unable to inoculate the seed with soil from an old lawn or pas- ture where low white clover has grown. Also omit the clover and the rape II seeding is delayed beyond october 10th Still earlier sowing is advisable You need not expect much rape unless the land is rich, and crimson clover will not grow with you unless the son is thoroughly inoculated. Inocuiatlon
 Is sowing with the seed earth rom
  If clover soil is not obtainable. and IT your lot Is ready for planting by sep tember 18th, l would advise you to SOW
 lightly with burr clover as suDsti- tute for crimson clover, completing the mixture with rye and rape. Burr clover does not need to be inoculatea. but the high cost about $1.50 to $2,OO
 per bushel, will limit the amount you can sow to one bushel per acre wnlcn should give about one third of stand. Among the several crops of this mix ture, the one sure one is rye, put the others are more available than rye h they succeed.
 If you land has considerable clay, you may be right in selecting wheat for second lot, and this should be beard less variety, such as southern grown purple straw.
 If syour land is sandy. oats would probably furnish as much or more food than wheat.
 If the hogs can be excluded from this lot after eating off the wheat. IL | should be planted to either cowpeas or | soy beans, or late crop of Spanish peanuts Certainly Spanish peanuts is l the best crop for the third lot and run- ming peanuts for the fourth lot Tor | use during winter. On sandy soils In | Central Alabama, I have found the run ming peanuts a much less certain crop than the Spanish, nut so successioA ! In South Alabama.
 X thousand pounds of slaoked lime | peracre will doubtless tend to insure | the crop of running peanuts, unless local experience has shown that this | Is a fairly certain crop on your soil. | PasturiDg Preferable to Dependence Upon Cut Green Forage. I take pleasure in answering your | questions in order letter.
 l. Soiling is a means of economic | ing land and increasing labor and Is | usually practiced to best advantage by dairymen owning high priced land near l cities. However it is advantageous to | combine a small amount of selling with l the ordinary pasturage system in man. ' aging dairy cattle The best use of | sofling is as a supplement to pastures at a time when the latter are short. A | doairyman should always have a patch I of sorghum for selling purposes. pre- | ferrablv throughout the season. and certainly during the latter part of the summer, when pastures are short. 2. Even for cows averaging as large yield as that mentioned. 385 pounds | of butter during the year. fear it would not be practicable to depend en-