News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-09

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centage of the farm
earnings for milstuifs is one of the
most serious problems of the day. Its
solution in wise way will spell sue
cess for many struggling farmer.
Soy beans make rich late summer
pasturage good soiling crop, a splen-
did ensilage crop and cured hay
equal in palatabiity and feeding value
to alfalfa hay. They yield twenty to
thirty bushels Of seed per acre, worth
50 to So per bushel. and can be ground
into meal that will take the place of
cottonseed meal, oil meal. tankage,
gluten or other high class concentrates
at much less cost
Owing to their rapid growth soy
beans are an admirable catch crop to
follow wheat oats, crimson clover,
potatoes or other early crops. They
greatly improve the condition of the
soil upon which they grow and enrich
its store Of nitrogen and humus.
AS compared with the valuable and
widely popular cowpeas, soy beans
have a wider range of usefulness, are
more easily cured for hay, much more
easily harvested and thrashed for seed,
yield more seed, ripen more evenly, are
more nutritious, command q better
price, are less sensitive to frost, lose
less III handling Of the hay, crack less
in thrashing, are less likely to be at
tackled by weevil and the roots and
stubble leave more nitrogen and hui
mus in the soil. Cowpeas have the one
superior virtue of making heavier
yield on a poor, sandy soil
AS main crop sow soy beans ten
days after corn planting time as
catch crop as soon as the prior crop is
off the land. If drilled in rows to be
cultivated one-third of a bushel will
seed an acre; if drilled solid, like
wheat. use six pecks.
For hay. cut when the pods are fully
formed; for seed, cut when the plants
begin to turn yellow, cure as for hay
and thrash. The thrashed forage will
be eaten greedily by horses and cattle.
and they will thrive on it. At present
prices soy beans are one of the most
profitable crops that can be grown. and
they fit admirably into almost any
good system Of crop rotation.
After a crop of rye or oats is taken
off in the early summer there is plen-
ty of time to disk or pillow the field
and SOW soy beans for a late summer
crop, 1t can be used as pasturage
A still newer crop of great value to
live stock owners is called guar If
this fodder crop proves to be all that is
claimed for it some of the others will
be relegated to the background
Guar is described as an erect annual,
reaching a height of three to four feet
in an arid country and five to seven
feet in the rain belt AS land i'm
proven it ranks with the cowpea. and
is a forage plant it is said to equal al
'alfa. Just imagine the amount of for
Guar is said to produce enormous
Quantities of seed-twenty to thirty
bushels per acre, even in a dry coun-
ry, and propOrtionately larger yields
n humid countries.
Dairymen need n variety of fodder
rops With summer droughts always
possible it is a good plan to have a
ield of rye and clover sown in the fall
This. like the first cutting of alfalfa.
will be ready quite early. For mid
ummer emergencies it is well to have
oy beans, cowpeas. millet or alfalfa.
)owpeaS and oats may be sown to-
ether for a late hay crop and usually
i've satisfactory results.