Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-03-27

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Monday, in his SD year.
How TO GROW CORN AND PEAS
4 agricultural College Man Tells just
How to Get Away From One
Crop Idea and Improve Soil.
The State College of Washington
has just published two posters on the
growing OF corn and field peas. The
posters are written by Professor Geo.
Severance and embody the essential
principles to be followed In growing
these crops as follows:
Washington is we'll adapted to corn.
High lands, low lands, nOn-irrigated
lands, irrigated lands will grow corn
If proper seed, proper soils, proper
cultivation and properly selected 10
cations are used. Avoid frosty spots.
1. Secure acclimated seed.
2. Select warm, rich, we'll drained
soil.
8. Where rainfall exceeds IL
inches, pillow deep in fall and harrow
in early spring.
4. When rainfall Is less than
Is inches, summerfallow as for wheat.
s. Cultivate shallow frequently IN
spring to conserve moisture. Kill
weeds, prepare good seed bed. develop
available plant food.
Note-Moisture can not be con-
served after it has escaped. A good
seed bed can not be prepared from
dry, cloddy ground.
1. Plant early. but so as to -
cape the late spring frosts. The date
will vary from early April to middle
4 May A -
2. Plant in hills three and q half
to four feet apart each way, three to
five kernels per hill, or same amount
of seed in drills.
8. Cultivate will harrow till corn
is three or four inches high. Always
catch weeds when small.
A. Keep soil clean and surface
loose throughout summer. Level
shallow cultivation IL best.
4 S. Do not cut corn until 1t u
fully glazed (unless frosted) whether
for silage or for grain.
Select next years seed from stand
ing corn.
The Agricultural College wishes to
cooperate with the farmers in test
, ing this crop. It has matured sss-
cessfully on the college farm for the
last ten years.
Field peas are one Of the hest
{ crops to grow where adapted. The
crop makes rich hay or soiling food
> makes rich grain, especially for hog
) feed, and enriches the soil.
: Peas do best in cool climate with
considerable moisture. At homo all
over western Washington: do well IN
! eastern Washington, where rainfall
: exceeds Is to 20 inches. except 4
! wet draws or on clay points.
: I. Pillow deep In the fall, II posi-
|, : BILE. leaving the ground rough; or. I
!. 1t is impossible to fall pillow, pillow
i :. as soon as the soil is fit to work II
= the spring, medium depth. narrowing
at once.
2. Work up deep, mellow seedbe'
' as early as the ground is fit to work
!. 3. Seed as early as seeded can b
!. prepared, using grain drill set TO seq
deep-four or five inches.
= Re R0es6
acre, If seeded alone. Seed four t
six pecks of peas and one bushel Q
oats II mixture is desired for fee(
= Pea vines are less likely to lodge an
3. be damaged for feed when seede
with oats. Seed the oats about on
=. week after seeding the peas, settin
= the drill to seed the usual depth &c
:. oats. When seeded on same dat
: oats are apt to hold down the peas.
:. 5. Make very rich hay II cut whe
- - oats are going into the dough" stag
= and the first peas are full growl
~ Cure like clover hay.
6. May be fed off profitably b
hogs, turning in when first peas a
.. full grown, combining the hogs to
:, small patch at time to avoid vast
=, Z. II cut for seed. the best result
= are usually secured by cutting whe
!. !. the first pods are beginning to shel
- If cut earlier, too large percentas
y. y will usually be quite green.
IL 8. Yields on the state farm hay
OF ranged from two to four tons, cure
re hay per acre; $25 to $50 in pork. Q
OF 20 to 40 bushels per acre, usually
ne threshed.
OF The state experiment station, Pu
at man, Wash. desires to cc-opera
OF with certain number Of reliab
j. farmers In testing this crop. Wri
ct for particulars and for bulletins {
peas.