The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-05

lines runs tnlru year. Inc lios
,rop of hay is cut very early, usu- 4
lilly beginning about June 25, and
second crop is cut at the early end t
If August. The annual yield per G
acre averages very close to four c
tons. The newly seeded fields often c
produce three tons at the first cut I
ting and two the second. OF the I'm {
est quality of hay, mostly clover.
Commercial fertilizer is used only
on the corn crop, 200 pounds to tho
acre being used. The manure from
the relatively large herd is applied
to all crops, on the corn land during
winter or spring and as top-dress-
ing on the grass. Back in 1892 this
farm could not support more than
twelve COWS and yoke Of oxen. IL
has been raised out Of this condition
into the present by first applying
commercial fertilizer, especially that
high in potash. to all the land until
good clover stand was OBTAINED.
Then the further increase was ac-
complished by the use of the clover
in increasing the number OF i've
stock as we'll as the humus in the
soil. and the increase of live STOCK
was further aided by the additional
manure. After the clover was once
established the use of commercial
fertilizer, with the exception OF tnat
used on the corn. was discontinued.
Within the city limits OF Prov
idence, R. l., there Is worthy ex-
1 ample Of what a man may do with
small farm If he works and thinks.
On sixty acres are grown silage, soil
ing crops, and hay sufficient Tor
three teams of horses. a saddle horse,
and sixty cows the whole year and
forty additional cows Tor nine
months. The first year the CROP
ping system was established, four
carloads Of hay were purchased, the
next one carload, but today none Is
purchased, but two carloads were
; purchased because it is deemed ad-
yisable to keep the forty additional
cows for the winter months. Enough
hay was furnished from oats and
peas. millet and other crops, to
: supply that needed for the original
4 number Of cows. and enough mixed
0 clover and timothy was grown fol
r the horses.
h The sytem carried on on this farm
\ Is adapted to the man living neal
Il the city, where the demand for mill
"a delivered at the consumers door u
J. good. so good that the farmer need
+ greater proportion Of silage O
70 other succulent feed. even at tn
10 cost Of buying additional hay. Tn
), method calls for crops which fur
;s nish green feed from the middle o
y May to November /. So mucn o
n each crop as may be Is fed. Whe
is crop reaches the stage OF maturlt
= where it would no longer be ut I
ro feed green, it Is made into hay Q
IN nut in the silo. This allows OF II
a creasing the quantity OF succuler
feed without using all OF the Ian
IN for corn, and thus distributes u
-, labor of men and teams through tn
IN season in a way which could not
ID done in growing the same acreae
rn of corn alone.
at Rye sown in September is ordll
or arily fit to cut for feed by the mi
nc die of May and lasts until June !
M Winter wheat and vetch sown Sc
OF tember 20 is fit to feed from Jul
he 10 to July /, and any left over
of used for hay. Oats and peas SOY
by. first April 18 will be fit to fe
the July /, and successive seeding
wv even up to July ! on low lant
Of will furnish green feed until Se
her tember /. If the later seedin
hat must be omitted for suitable liant
rye sweet corn is planted May Id a
,ms will fill the gap until frost com
,er- Barley sown from June 20 to Al
ust Is in successive lots will furn1
ety. feed for September and Octob
y is Under any other circumstances
in would not seem economical for th'
,od- men to follow this system. for su
way mer feeding of silage saves the da
put labor of cutting and hauling gre
ere. CROP on any farm where there
arse land enough to use for growing gt