The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-08-22
ARE LEARNING KALE.
oregon Farmers Overcome Prejudice
of Long Standing.
From the Oregon Agricultural College. Corvallis.

of Long Standing.
From the Oregon Agricultural College. Corvallis.
kale is one Of the best talking crops
IN Oregon When the Oregon booster
wants to prove that Oregon is the
pest dairy state in the union he has
10 talk kale. Unless he knows what
kale Will do to the milk bucket he has
NOT qualihed as booster. 1t is called
the thousand headed kale. and the
Dotanist knows it as brassica eleracea.
out It IS the plain kale Of four letters
mat does the talking. The strange
thing is that it has only been during
the last two or three wears that i
mas mad an audience, though it is
nearly thirty years old in the William
cite valley. 1t has tried to talk all
those years, but the people wouldn't
listen when it sought recognition.
We never heard it talk" they in
sisted, back in Iowa and New York.
Back there cows produce milk with
out kale, and | guess they will have
TO here" That is tradition. It took
thirty. years for kale to get an audi
ence IN this state and live down ira
dition.
The dairymen of New York under
stand what green succulent food
means to the dairy cow, and they
build expensive silos, buy expensive
machinery, and grow fertility-robbing
corn, which they irrigate with their
sweat, in order that the farmer dur
ing the long winter months may have
an excuse for milking his cows. The
Oregonian needs no expensive silos
to remind the COW OF the good old
summer time. Kale A thousand
blessings on the thousand-headed
kalel 1t is making Oregon the
greatest dairy state in the union.
When grown under favorable con
ditions kale will yield 40 tons per
acre of green feed, and its chief value
is as a soiling crop during the fall
and winter Splendid results are be-
ing secured by feeding kale and vetcf
hay to dairy cows, without any grain
or mill feed. DR.. Withycombe, Of the
J Agricultural College, says that /,
pounds of vetch hay and 40 pound:
of kale day is practically balanced
ration for a dairy cow Mr.. w. L
Wilson, of Banks, Or, says: 81 re
ceived s207 from IA cows in the montl
of December, and fed them nothing
but kale, turnips and vetch hay. TIL,
man who feeds chop would have t
] make S237 to clear as much as | do
4 | have not had a speck of mill feed il
the barn all winter"
, Mr. Byron Hunter, of Corvallis
has, as assistant agriculturist of tn
bureau of plant industry, u. S. depart
, ment of agriculture, made a specia
study Of the forage crops of Western
Oregon, and in Bulletin No. 81, pub
t lished jointly by the Oregon Expert
t ment Station and the Department @
: Agriculture, has the following to sa
about kale, which is timely:
I Methods OF Sowing-For fall an
: winter use kale is usually sown i
q drills on we'll prepared and draine
Il soil as soon after the 18th of Mare
n as the season will permit This fui
nishes plants for transplanting
'e June and July The land used fc
lie transplanting is well MANFRED an
d plowed two or three times betwee
IN the first OF March and the first {
n June. With the land in perfect tilt
= it is plowed again with 12-inch plo
ie about the first of June, and the youn
y kale plants dropped into every thin
furrow about two and half to thrt
feet apart. This places about or
plant on every square yard. The roo
OF the plants are placed where Il
next furrow covers them, leaving Il
sn tops uncovered. The plants that a
plowed in during the day in this W;
~ are rolled in the evening of the san
." day to pack the ground. Two
he three civilizations are all that c.
he usually be given, for the plants W
soon touch in the row, if they do we
e ANY plants that fail to grow may
a replaced by hand Some grove
" prefer to plant the seed in hills, al
p when the plants are large enough tn
oh them to one plant in a hill. Othe
ID. put kale out Just as cabbage is usual
av transplanted. instead of blowing 1t
as The time of transplanting must
determined by the size of the plan
and the condition of the land. If I
at land is wet and subject to overtic
on the transplanting may be delayed Il
is I'll during July If the land is W
drained and the plants are lar
La enough. it may be done before I
re- first of June. In transplantir
Iat enough plants may be left for sta
ad on the land where the seedlings Z
les grown.
nj A man living at Maud wants to KIN
is if he can irrigate his trees by mes
tn of a water wagon and barrels. P
lessor Thornber did not favor the pl'
tt stating:
to "This would be rather too compl,
tx l am of the opinion that you will +
it too great an expense, consider
the vsiue of team and man, to HI
this water during the summer. !
80, would advise Won to try