El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-02
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
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In Colorado the first cutting of al
falfa is made between early and half
bloom. but formerly it was left until
full bloom. Cutting the first crop early
allows more time for the following
cuttings.
Annual forage crops, such as millet
corn, sorghum and kaffir corn, are rec
commended for planting on land that has
been in alfalfa If wheat and other
small grains are sown earlier than the
second or third year after the alfalfa
has been removed, loss is liable from
lodging and rankness of growth
BY having one capable corn breeder
in every farming region, the quality
may be increased wonderfully in a few
years. 1t is not best to get seed-corn
from far away where conditions OF soil
and climate may be different, for IL has
been found that corn can bear less
changing than most crops
Of the A varieties Of oats tested at
the Kansas station, only four are rec
commended for planting in the state:
Red Texas, Sixty Day, KherSon and
Burt The average yield, in order
named. for from five to seven years.
was A, 1879, 42.5 and Alb bushels per
acre.
In selecting fruit trees it is best to
choose young trees. home grown If pos
sible. vigorous, straight, stocky, well
supplied with roots and free from dis
ease or insects. The best soil for or
chards is a deep loan with a heavy
adobe subsoil, five or more feet be-
meath. The method OF irrigation pre-
ferred the first few years is to throw
up borders on each side OF the rows Of
trees and irrigateo although bitches thus
formed, thereby avoiding loss OF water
in irrigating the middles and unneces-
sary cultivation to keep down weeds
Flowing corn early is better than
waiting until ii is too high, for fewer
OF the feeding roots are destroyed, the
weeds are not so hard to kill and the
stalks are not apt TO be injured by the
horses.
If It is the intention to plant alfalfa
on the land planted to wheat this spring
IL is best to start as soon as the wheat
IS off the field to pillow and level. BY
not waiting too long the ground viii
not dry enough to break in large clods
ordinarily and there is more time to
properly level it.
Alfalfa that is planted on land that
has not been we'll graded IS a loss TO
the farmer in a great many ways. In
the first place, il will yield very poorly
on the high places and is very apt to
be drowned out in the low ones The
expense in irrigatfng land with high
spots is considerably greater than level
land, because the water must be raised
high enough to cover them, conse-
quently more time is consumed and the
borders must be made higher and the
cross borders more numerous. The
time consumed in cutting poor stands
of alfalfa is as great as in moving good
stands and the returns are neglible. In
fact, if there is not the time or money
available to prepare the alfalfa seed bed
properly, it is better a thousand times
to plant grain crop or else allow the
land TO lie fallOw until it can be ar
ranged for a permanent meadow.
During MAY a steer was delivered at
the Fort Worth yards that weighed
2150 pounds and was of frame that
could have sustained at least 500
pounds more He was shipped by ]. f.
Dunno, of Alice, and was sold to Swift
& Co. at SIS per 100 pounds, netting the
owner 1929, after deducting marketing
charges.