The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-12-04

| In the vicinity Of Boston, rye sOWn
| September 10 is ordinarily fit 10 cut
for feed May - and lasts until about
| June 3. Winter wheat and vetch
| sown September 20 is TT TO feed from
June TO July /. and any left over
makes good hay. Oats and peas
sOwn first April 18 will be fit to feed
! by July J., and successive seedlings.
even up to July l on low land, will
| furnish green feed until September i.
! 1t the later seedlings must he omitted
| for lack OF suitable land, green corn
! planted May ID will fiji the gap until
| the frost comes. Barley sown from
June 20 TO August Is in successive
lots will furnish feed for September
and October. Under any other cir
| cumstances than those described IL
| does not seem economical to follow
| this system for summer feeding OF
| silage saves the daily labor OF cut
| ting and hauling a green crop on any
| farm where there Is land enough TO
| use for growing good clover hay In
rotation with silage corn.
The methods which are TO be gen.
| orally recommended to dairymen In
New England for the producing OF
feed apply equally to much OF the
State of New York, at least TO all the
eastern portion OF it. They are brief
ly as follows
In the first place, all land which
can be used at all in such a manner
should be kept in a short rotation.
the most, five years long. This
should bring the time which any
piece OF land Is used for hay before
replowing down TO two or three years
at the most. This short rotation
gives mere clover in the hay, since
clover is short lived only good for
two years from the time OF seeding.
at best. The clover not only inn
proves the quality OF the hay. but
when hay is grown for three years.
increases the yield OF the hay crop for
n year after the clover Is gone. IL
cut for hay only two years, the clover
materially aids the yield OF corn or
other crop which mmediatel.' fol-
lows it..
If. as Is often the case. good
catch Of clover Is not easily obtained.
the land should be lined. for too
much acidity i'm thl soil seems to be
the greatest drawback to clover cul-
ture in New England Land plaster.
wood ashes, or fertilizers containing
much potash contribute TO the same
end. The only precaution to be OBJ
served is in the case of farm whers
potatoes are an important crop, for
then one must be cautious about linn
ing; potato "scab may thereby be in
creased. In that case fertilizer
high in potash, such as is used for
potatoes, does much to improve the
clover crop.
The chief difficulty in growing ST.
lage corn in northern New Englond
is in getting a suitable variety, and
farmers are strongly urged TO take
advantage of such new varieties OF
silage corn as may be offered for trial
by the agricultural experiment sta
tions OF their respective States or by
the United States Department OF Ag-
riculture, and also to select their own
seed in order to improve II.
In the most northern sections, such
as northern Maine, where corn is out
OF the question and potatoes fill the
place OF corn in n rotation, silage
can still be made from Japanese mill
let or other crops and succulent VIM
ter feed thus provided Glover and
Italian rye grass are successfully used
for silage in the State of Washing
ton. This combination is worthy OF
trial in northern Maine.
II should be noted that all, or near
ly all. OF the cropping systems that
have been mentioned here are de-
pendent on different variations Of ono
rotation. Several different rotations
may compose the system on any farm,
and one rotation may follow anoth-
er on the same field. or different
fields may be used continuously in
different rotations. The rotations,
however, are based on the one so
common in many localities-that is.
corn. small grain, grass. Corn nay
be replaced by potatoes, and that Is
very profitably done in the potato
districts or in the most northern
counties OF New England. where corn
fails. The small grain may be left
out and the grass tand clover seed
ed In the corn. or corn may be grown
two years. instead of one.
The number OF years of hay grow
ing may vary from one to five. and
the small grains may be used as grain
or go to supplement or enrich the
supply OF hay. Even the rotations
for a soiling system are usually based
on the same foundation. the crops
for soiling coming after corn, two OF
them frequently being grown I'm a
/ year. and then the land put back 10
| corn again.
The essentials OF the New England
dairyman in growing feed for his
COWS appear TO be the use OF short
! rotation wherever possible all the
| clover hav and corn silage that can