The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-09-03

. pork production, prepared by Mr.. o
o Byron Hunter, who is now state Q
q leader in charge Of farm-man- o
p agement-field studies and dem o
. onstrations in the State Of o
o Washington, and employed CO. o
. operatively by the United o
o States Department Of Agricul- o
. ture and the State College Of o
q Washington. o
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rHE MORE humid portions of the
] wheat belt are generally situated
near the mountains. The annual
rainfall is usually sufficient to grow
alfalfa successfully without irrigation.
Many farmers use the main winter
wheat field for hog pasture. If the
autumn rains begin early enough in the
fall to do the seeding during the first
part of September, wheat usually makes
sufficient growth to furnish pasture
from October Is until the ground is
SO wet that it is injured by the tramp
ing of the hogs. If sown during Sep
tember, winter wheat also makes very
early spring pasture. 1t is used from
the time the ground is settled until
the grain begins to head, or until the
hogs begin to chew the heads. Ordi-
narly this will be from March Is until
June l.
Excellent summer and autumn pas
turo is provided by sowing winter
wheat early in May on a well prepared
seed bed. If not pastured very closely
during the autumn, wheat that is sown
during May can be used during much
of the winter.
If sown just before the last cultiva-
tion in corn that has been well cult
waited, wheat generally furnishes an
abundance of green feed during the
autumn when corn is being hogged off.
Glover and Alfalfa.
Red clover is adapted to the wheat
growing districts having claylike SUBJ
soil and the maximum precipitation.
While alfalfa is adapted to the same
territory it has q much wider range of
usefulness, for it succeeds with less rain
fall and on lighter soils than clover.
Clover begins to grow earlier in the
spring and continues to grow later in
the fall than alfalfa. The young tender
growth of clover is not SO easily in
jured by severe frosts as that Of al
falfa. Red clover fits nicely into short
rotations because it is short lived and
so easily killed by plowing. Where the
land is to be used continuously for hog
pasture for number of years alfalfa
easily stands first.
The carrying capacity Of both clover
and alfalfa is greatly reduced by the
summer drought, and it is usually neces-
sary to provide additional feed during
this time.
The ESSENTIALS in successfully grow
ing both of these crops are given in de-
tail in Popular Bulletin 81 and Bulletin
80 of the Washington Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, Pullman, Wash.
Kale and Rape.
Thousand headed kale and Dwarf
Essex rape are very closely related.
The mature individual kale plants are
generally larger than those of rape. In
the more humid portions of the wheat
belt Of Idaho, Oregon and Washington
few crops are more satisfactory for
pasture during the summer and autumn
than kale and rape. The green aphis
sometimes attacks both Of these crops
during the last Of August. While kale
is seldom injured very much, rape is
frequently damaged considerably. Fol
this reason kale is the preferable crop,
To grow either rape or kale sue
cessfully the land to be planted re-
ceives an application of stable manure
and is plowed during the late fall. AS
soon as the surface soil is dry enough
In the spring, it is thoroughly cult
waited to destroy weeds, germinate weed
seeds and conserve moisture. For early
summer use, say the middle of June
the seed is planted as early in the
spring as the soil has warmed up well
If the crop is not to be used until