Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1908-05-28
Sheep on LeGumes.

Care should be exercised in pasturing
sheep on clover or, in fact, on any mem
Der Of the legume family, for unless
judgment Is used there may be consid-
cradle loss from boating. There is a
right and a wrong way Of ~pasturins
the clover or alfalfa almost to come
into bloom before turning in the sheep.
Then there should be sowp with these
crops some timothy, redtop or any other
nonleguminous plant, for where there
Is a mixture this way the sheep will
alternately eat one and the other and
SO reduce the chance Of bloat.
When turning In the flock for tn.
first time they should be already filled
with food For example, the day they
are to be turned into the clover pasture
feed them early In the morning a little
grain and hay, and when the sun Is well
up and hot turn them out. Then, in
stead Of filing themselves at once they
will eat a little and then look for q
cool spot to rest in. Joseph E. Wing
has, he says. tried this plan with great
success. BE also advises keeping before
them constantly a receptacle contain
Ing salt and air slaked lime mixed.
Once IN the pasture they should never
be moved until 1t comes time to change
to fresh pasture-that Is, they should
not be brought into the yards at night
OF they will be In danger Of bloating
when let out again in tho morning.
Eastern Agriculture Unprogrsx.ive.
In the East applied agricultural sci
encs had to battle against old customs,
conservatism, failure. inertia. The
young blood went West. Science
caught the conditions young and was
able to show results soon enough to
enlist the cooperation Of all classes.
Science applied to farming was first
greeted with boots and jeerR Book
farming and fancy titles" the country
people called vt; and the funny papers
waxai funner with alleged interviews
Of the proyerbial professor with the
recalcitrant cow l could tell, If it
were not betraying confidence, Of one
agricultural university which had its
entire faculty, It's building. Its scien-
tidc equipment, for four years before
q bakers dozen Of students turned I'D
to take instruction.
Wherever science has been applied
to farms in the East high values rule,
az in the West-yalues even higher
than In thu West, for IN close proxim-
itv to the markets of the large Eastern
cities the East can go into the special
lied farming Of perishable products like
flowers and celery and potatoes and
garden truck, which the West dare not
touch on a specialized scale. Maine is
winning rich profits from her highly
fortified, spoOn-fed potatoes, Just as
Iowa and Wisconsin are earning
wealth In corn. From a single acre
5000 worth Of celery has been raised
in a year, $4,000 worth Of carnations,
$3.50 worth Of potatoes, $500 worth Oh
table corn; and l personally know Of
one small apple orchard that last year
yielded its owners $500. From sew
enteen TT Of grapes one grower
clears $1,7C0 q year; and there Is on
record n peach orchard of 100 acres
which gave It's owner q harvest of
$4,000. Deduct high cost for hand
labor and hand fertilizing from this,
and there still remains a profit that
gives a value In thousands, where tina
same kind Of land in the West is val"
ned oaly In Misunderstanding.