The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-17

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Another portion of the corn could
be shocked and fed to the stock in
the cured form throughout the win
ter.
Those who like hog raising could
we'll combine hog raising with cattle
raising, keeping on the farm 10 or
II brood sows. A portion of the al
falfa could be used for a hog pasture.
For grain, these brood sows could
be fed quite largely from the screen
lngs produced in cleaning seed for
$50 to 200 acres of grain that would
naturally be grown on such farm.
If farmer cleans his seed right, he
should secure from SO to Is bushels
OF screenings when cleaning for
that acreage.
To turn the sows and pigs on
during July and August, when the
alfalfa pasturage has become scanty
and the pigs need more forcing, a
fair acreage of peas should be plant
ed. Twenty to 25 acres should do
for that number of pigs. They
should be pastured on only a por-
ton OF the peas at a time, to save
wallowing them down and wasting
them. Following the peas, they
should have corn to run in. By
planting a real early variety, such
as the Yellow Dent, grown by the
State Experiment Station, corn
may be fit for them to turn into by
August 20. By planting a later
variety, like the White Dent, also
grown by the station, they will have
corn down until the middle of
October. If the farmer has his
fences built hog tight, so that the
grain on the stubble fields may be
utilized, considerable revenue may
be secured, and the hogs will be
benefited by having the greater
range.
One thing should be borne in
mind in combining stock raising
with cropping: In order to secure
the best results, the stock should be
we'll supplied with food from start
to finish, and never allowed to run
down. The above suggestions pro-
vide for this point. If a 800 acre
farm were handled in this way, it's
fertility would be as great SO years
from now as it is today. There
would be just as many bushels of
grain grown annually as under the
present system, and there could, in
addition, be received an annual
revenue of $4,000 or $4,000 from
dairy products, young stock and
hogs.
In some places where conditions
are favorable, considerable acreage
of summerfallowed land may be used
to grow potatoes, sugar beets, and
very many other crops, instead of
producing feed for livestock. The
Washington Experiment Station
has been testing a large number of
varieties of corn, peas and potatoes,
and at the present time has limit
ed quantity of the best varieties to
distribute among the farmers at a
reasonable cost.
Where summerfallowed land is
used to grow corn, and the corn is
fed off by stock, portions of it will
be removed too late for fall seeding
of grain. In the moister parts of
the state of Washington, the oat
crop seeded in the spring on this
land will give as great or greater re-
turns as will fall sown wheat. The
station has been testing large num-
Der of varieties of oats, and has a
limited quantity of four or five Of
the most excellent varieties for dis
tribution among the farmers, at a
moderate cost. Where the seed OF
a variety is limited, no more than
two sacks of the seed will be sent
to any one person.
The station does not advise any
man to start in Immediately ano
grow crops on all of his summer
fallow, keeping stock enough to
feed out, but it does urge that every
wheat farmer should begin to work