The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-09-02
GOOD FORAGE CROPS
Question Is Easy One TO Solve on
Southern Farm.
Each Year Piece Of Land Should De
Selected for This Purpose-lm.
portant as Corn. Cotton. To.
bacoo and Grain.

Try & e MOORE, Charlotte. g. 60
The question ~ forage on a south.
ern farm rs easy solved. Almost every
vegetable plant can be used Tor tor
age. There are. however, certain
plants that will produce forage In
abundance.
To have forage plontlfully. every
farmer should make tho growing OF II
o. u his crops. Each year @ piece
OF land should be selected especially
for this purpose. II Is ~ important
NJ corn, cotton. tobacco or grain
crops. but IL Is nevertheless the most
neglected crop
A. this s,aso OF the year lhr fufuIp
crOI should be- considered, as tt iE Of
great value. We prepare our turuip
land to a fine condition. manure
heavy. plant Iu drills three foot apart,
when the leaf IL us large as q dime.
thin TO 10 inches; cultivate often. We
raise great quantities aud ind the
crop T. Ottable for winter feeding.
For the earliest spring feed We SOW
rye In August. Two bushels per acre
on well prepared land literally ma
nurod usually produces feed by the
fifteenth OF March. Rye makes a fair.
ly good hay II cut when In the root
Crimson clover is the most valuable
winter crop we plant. We find Sep
tcmber and October the best months
for seeding; and to be INSURED Of o.
good. blk crop We SOW on "a perfect
seed bed. using lots Of manure. and
II the land Is at all thin We drlll Ia
200 pounds OF acid phosphate per
acre; from 10 10 20 pounds Of seed
IL sown to cnch acre. The yield Of
hay from Dod preparation is about
one and a half tons per acre. The
corn planted on this clover stubble
has never failed US. We have grown
Is tons to the acre OF silage corn aft.
cr crimson clover.
For a great yield Of hay wc SOW one
bushel OF wheat aud 10 pounds Of
crimson clover per acre. The crop Is
cut when the clover IL In fun bloom.
II is quite easy 20 make two tons OF
hay per acre, ana II Is a milk and
fat producing feed.
Hairy yetch and wheat Is also I'm,
for green feeding Of hay. We are
seeding more land each year to this
mixture, and are convinced that II il
n crop mixture all our farmers will
like.
Another good mixture IL wheat, oats
rye and barley. II this is snwn In
August on fairly good land II may be
Rra2ed all the dry days from Novem
Der ! TO March /; then. n stock b,
kept on, n good lot Of hay mas be
harvested In June.
Spring.sown oats. n cut when In
bloom. make a capital hay more val
liable as hay than u tireshcn ior th,
grain.
There IL hardly an end to the sum
mcr crops We can grow for makini
forage. Every farmer may select suci
ns he likes. In our own case. for 4
green feed from July | to November
/ We have not found any plant tina
produces more 20 the acre or that
gives better results from feeding thar
molasscs cane Every animal We h1y,
on the farm is fed green sorghum from
the time II Is four feet high. about
the FIRST OF July on to frost: ther
what IN left Is cut and put into a sic
for winter feed. Wa have never had q
death from animals eating sorghum
We feed sparinRly AZ first. always aft
or a full feed OF dry forage. We hay,
about fifteen acres planted TO sor
Rhum and will feed the entire crop L
our farm stock.
Every farmer who keeps ten heaC
OF stock should build a silo. The cos
Is small. one 10 hold so TO 50 toni
may be built for $40 or $50. For hll
ing the silo, corn II king. Our corr
crop for silage Is planted on crimson
clover stubblc land. broke as deep al
the top soil extends; two or three
horse plows are used. After blowing
the land Is dragged; then narrowed
three to six times 20 get II fine an,
warm. The rows are about forty inch
90 wide; corn dropped about eigh.
inches apart; cultivation II continue,
until the crop Is too large to work. ~
| cultivation Is done with the Globe har
row It Is almost a perfect tool Tn,
yield Ia seldom under eight tons an,
often up 10 rs tons per acre.
Corn silage II tho %dairyman's friend
and every ten.cow farmer should hay,