The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-03

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| 49, value of the forage saved. You
! have, therefore, paid for the
w. i fodder and thrown in the labor
wv free.
know that the fodder saved
PROFESSOR Massey by topping and stripping is
better article than the cut-down stover, for ar
que may about the value of the whole
plant, there is little of the stalk eaten when
shredded. Then to the labor merely; l have
topped corn and stripped blades and 1 have cut
down and shocked corn. and far as the labor
is concerned had rather top and strip than cut
down and shock. for that is very hard work.
know, too that in the humid coast region
of the South there is risk of damage in the
shocks, and there will be more rotten corn in the
shocks than on the standing stalks. But if the
shocks are made small and we'll open, there will
not be SO much risk of damage.
The great advantage in cutting the corn off is
to have the land clear for small grain. Some OF
our wheat growers sow the shock in oats
in the spring, and some dodge around the shocks
with the drill SO that really the only space not
sown is right where the shocks stand.
Taking everything into consideration would
certainly cut and shock the corn and get the land
we'll disked over for fall grain. The extra corn
will pay for the extra labor and the slower can
be shredded. and if not eaten entirely, what is
left will be in nice shape to go into the manure.
Then, when there are no long stalks in the
manure there will not be many broken forks
and cuss words.
SMALL GRAIN AFTER CORN.-In preparing
the corn land for wheat or oats, run the disk har
row shallow and often and do not re-pow deeply
for the important matter for fall grain is to have
the surface soil very fine and the soil below we'll
settled. Therefore, the more you go over and
harrow and tramp the land, the better Winter
oats are damaged by cold more from sowing on
loose and badly fined soil than from anything else
and the practice of sowing in burrows is poor
remedy. If the land is we'll fined and tramped by
the teams, oats sown in September or October
with the wheat drill will do WE'LL and there is less
danger of winter killing than in any other way
Inen, sow clean seed If you have no cheat
seed in your land and sow no cheat seed with
your oats, you will never a cheat plant in the
field. Cheat seed look very much like a small
oat grain but they lighter and can easily be
blown out with tanning mill 1t pays to get
ciean seed even at an extra price. A friend last
iaii wanted to SOW some winter oats and l told
MIN 10 get them from good seed firm that would
: sell MIN re-cleaned seed. He did SO, paying
] ABOUT rs cents a bushel for the seed The winter
was rather hard one. but the oats came through
and never cheat plant was found in the field
wnlie another man, who bought seed oats for
less money, had nearly half his crop cheat solely
because he sowed cheat seed
The land where wheat is to be sown should
nave even more attention given to the ining of
the SOIL and In this case you have plenty of time
LOT the work, for | would never seed wheat until
aiter light white frost that there will be
better chance to escape the fall fly Then too
sow clean and heavy grain The tanning mill
pays well in the preparation of the seed for the
pest plants grow from the heaviest and plumpest
seed. Sow five pecks of wheat an acre
WHEAT OR OATS?-Now suppose that every
one Will be asking What fertilizer and how
much per acre for oats and wheat?" If YOU are
farming in a good rotation and have corn that