The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-26


must stand till dead ripe. The machine
Is drawn by pair OF mules easily
Send stamped and addressed envelope
and will tell you whore to set either.
I.ibcrnlity to the Agricultural Colleges
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
set good example TO Virginia. They
have given the State College near n
million and half dollars. which tho
Governor was obliged to cut down to
Sl,22e0o0. But that looks great when
compared with what the Virginia coll
lego gets from the State. North Caro-
lima is moro liberal with her college
than Virginia is with hers, and tho
North Carolina College, whore I was
one of the frs. faculty. and started only
in 1889 with a single building, has
row an array OF flne buildings that
throw the Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute into the shade. North Carolina
the fact that every president has been
backed by the farmers and by n united
faculty. while for years the Virginia
| college has been the seat OF conten
tons within and without. 1t is TO be
I hoped that the new president Will
have better support. and more lib
cral treatment by the Legislature. In
New Jersey the college has a farm
that is said to return a profit of S25,-
00o year TO the State Whether n
| college farm run for profit is as val
liable as a means fer instruction or
! not Is q question. But II the students
can be taught business-lil1e farming
for Jroft. it may be we'll TO run the
| farm In that way. But 1 have always
| been OF the opinion that the college
| farm. being tae laboratory of the
agricultural department. should have
instruction as its main object, rather
than the making of profit If both
| can be done, all right. but l doubt it.
| Feeding Ensilnge to Deeves.
! Some very interesting experiments
| have been made ut the Missouri Sta
| ton in feeding ensilage to beef cattle
! They found that a ton of ensilaCe was
| approximately equal in feeding value
TO half a TN OF red clover hay. Esti-
mated on the basis OF net profit per
steer, ton OF dry matter in the form
of corn ens!lage, yielded sos per cent
greater value than a ton OF dry mat
ter in the form of shock corn The
addition of clover hay to silage was
an advantage, and 1t was evidence that
II takes less grain in the form of
shelled corn TO fatten two-year- old
steers when silage forms n part of the
ration. And there was a superior fin
sh In the cattle
What amount per acre is the best
hard to answer this question Heavier
seed is better on thin soil than on
fertile. since the growth will be less
strong and tllering smaller. But as
rule am inclined TO think that most
OF our farmers SOW too few oats an
acre. or course, something depends on
the time OF sowing. rather thin
sowing early in september may do as
we'll as a thicker sowing later in the fall
I hnN
| 10 two and a half bushels an acre
! Where the soil is fairly good or the
crop Is well fortified think that two
and half bushels an acre in Sep
TENDER Is rather too heavy sowing
| The best crop | remember was made
from sowing nine pccks of oats, win
ter oats, in February. for | have found
| that in our china te the Virginia winter
oats are best even for spring sowing
have never sown such n large amount
F, when sowing in the early fall, and as
a rule. l believe that two bushels an
acre, sown in early September on we'll
! ined and prepared land will be fair
seeding OF winter oats If not practi-
cable TO get them in early, and the
drilling is deferred till October
would Increase the amount to eight
| pecks an acre. Then have also found
that the crop will succeed far better
4
cast as many do.
Then. If you SOW absolutely clean
seed YOU may be sure there will be no
cheat In the crop The seed OF cheat,
bromus secalinus. looks very much
like a small oat. and many assume that
their oats have TUNED to cheat simply
because they have sown lot of chca;
seed, and the winter has been hard on
the oats, while the hardy cheat has
/ nDnrISh,i f11t
any other grass but oats. and what
soever YOU SOW that also you Will
reap Good use OF the tanning mill to
blow out the light cheat seed and the
light oats VIII greatly increase the
prospect for good crop
Preparing for Small Grnin.
One OF the chief reasons for winter
killing is the lack OF proper prepara-
ton of the soil either for wheat or
oats. oats roughly put in oroadcas,
or roughly plowed land will be far
more apt 10 be winter killed than II
the land is prepared carly and woll-
hncd before sowing the seed Winter
I small grain demands wcll-sc;tled
| soil, and the surface made fine by re-
peated borrowings and tramp!ng by
I teams Where the crop comes in after
/ corn II is a mistake TO plow the land
/ deeply at that late date In the season
/ the corn remain settled, and merely
/ hhe the surface three inches, making
that as fine as practicable with disk
ana spike harrow.
ne heaviest crop ever made OF whca,
rn Maryland slXty-four and hal;
bushels an acre, was made on a niece
oil land piowed in May to destroy n
weed and kept narrowed con,inuallv
al! GUNNER and then drilled with whea,
II
the surface TO cover the grain r.
cultivation OF corn crop win answer
Just as well as such long bare cal
Tow. and where the corn IS grown o.,
clover sod with the home made ma
80, ~ WE be III the best possible
condition for fall grain If the snri,.,
p!o"IhS ie not disturbed, but the sur
lace' after cutting the corn Is mad. a
iine as practicable ana the more ia
marrow goes over the land the better
tne chances tor the crop. whether tbIg
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