The Greeley tribune., 1910-01-13


In every neighborhood. InvariabI,,
the man who complains of small
beets ana short yield can 0nd
neighbor who has used an old aifa,fa
field ana the same seed with salts
factory results. WIN s"''s-
The professor told of the ex,er,-
ence OF farmers in the WilIi,mat,o
valley, In Oregon, where thev nSad
to brag, nifty years ago ,b1, thn;r
soil was 800 feet deep and would
never wear out. They raised whaa,
for forty years in succession star,
ing with an average Weld of s;x,y
bushels. and at the end of thru
years ehe yield had dropped to six
we're bankrupt
ADout $40 they were told to mt
dairy cattle on the land. They plead
ed thaI they were too poor to buy
any. Ihen the railroad COMPANY o.
tered 10 ony the cattle This was re-
FUSED ana eventually they fixed nm
scheme whereby they were to pur-
chase cattle where they chose and
the raiiroad company agreed to shin
them ID iree of freight. The first
year they brought in 500, the second
1000, and the third year 90. 900
head. The land was planted to cloy-
ers and other leguminous crops. and
today, though the acreage in wheat
Is far less than formerly. the total
yleld is greater than ever, and the
land mas been brought back to Its
old-time productiveness.
California has reached the same
stage In her wheat growing districts
but has not yet got down to rotation
The result is that San Joaouin VAL
ley farms are not yielding enough
wheat to pay expenses North Da-
kota mas worn out its wheat lands by
the same system, The same thing is
true or the southland. where cotton
has been grown so long that it fire.
Quentiy does not pay expenses.
He told OF physician friend of his
VINO purchased piece of cotton land
near Birmingham, for ..6 per acre.
that was worn out. He put dairy
stock on the land and by systematic
building up of the soil at the end of
a rev years it was netting him $25
per acre per year. and he was offered
500 per acre for his land by the
same man he bought it from. Ask
ing the would-be purchaser what he
wanted it for, he was told, cotton.
But 1t is not necessary to go outside
or our own state for examples.
Greeley Wheat Example
Wheat over at Greeley used to
yield sixty bushels, but the time came
when 1t would not yield ten. Then
potatoes were grown, then alfalfa
came in, and today in the Greeley
district wheat is making good yields
again. You must do the same with
your sugar beets. Many fields have
grown sugar beets continuously since
the factories were built. Result,
small beets, small tonnage, and dis
must include leguminous crop, and
for Colorado nothing is better than
alfalfa. Continuous cropping of the
same sort also brings enemies in the
way of insect pests and crop diseases
which multiply year by year.
Az aD English experiment static,
lutely, where they have cultivated
trial plots to the same crop for sixty
three years in succession, when i
has become so infected with diseases
and insects peculiar to the particular
plant that 1t refuses to grow at all
Root Systems Vary
Every plant has a different roo
system. Some grow deep. some grow
near the top OF the ground. 1t i:
best 10 alternate shallow and deep
rooted crops Also cultivated ano
uncultivated crops. Cultivated crops
can be successfully grown longer OF
the same plot than the uncultivated
In any rotation system consider VIVA
is your most profitable crop. iot
must have cash crop always to sell
Al Greeley it is potatoes. At For
Collins it is sugar beets.
In u few years every farmer vii
have to keep enough livestock tt
eat mp all his alfalfa and keep the
manure on the ground. Thus treat
ed, it will be many. many years be
fore commercial fertilizers will be
needed. In the Arkansas valley. neal
Lamar few years ago man bouSh'
a farm cheap because it would nc
longer raise beetS. BY crop rota
tion he this year harvested eighteel
tons while the next farm exactly
the same land. but which had beer
raising beets year after year, only
yielded six tons Asked If land woulc
stand continuous cropping in alfalf ia
his answer was that it would raise
alaflfa continuously longer than any
other crop. but that the accumu'a'
tiou OF plant diseases and insects pc
culiaT to alfalfa would eventually
make aven that a poor crop,
Horses Feet
Not the least interesting OF the
days classes was Professor Barnes
lecture on the care of horses feet
He advised every horse owner tc
learn how horse should be shod
and what sort of shoes We're demand
ed by his particular horse, even
though he never nailed on a shoe
"Neverslip" shoes were highly recon-
mended for all purposes of shoe'
/ Better two meals a day for your
horse II you must economic thah u
be Without this shoe for your team
II is the sort that has remoNaole
calks which can be put on IN hVe
minutes time in case you get up on
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