The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-09-01
PLAN NOW FOR WINTER
COVER CROPS

Too much emphasis cannot be
placed on the value of winter COW
err crops. Saving our soils for
ourselves and for our children is
one OF the greatest of all the tasks
confronting us. The wise farmer
is he who saves his fields by
means of cover crops, kept on the
land winter and summer.
OATS-Do not let the good
price of cotton deceive you to
neglecting large, we'll prepared
acreage to oats this fal Make your
plans to SOW them in October, not
later than November tenth no
way. Fall sowing will give much
better results. Have your seed
treated to formalin to kill smut
before you sew the seed Plant
a Rust Proof variety or some of
ITS strains, such as Appler, Cul-
bcrson and Bancroft. The Full
ghum is the best early oat. You
will not make mistake to grow
this variety and follow with corn.
peanuts, and velvet beans. For
hay purposes it is good practice
to SOW Vetch with the oats, by
doing this you increase the value
OF the oats and improve your
land
CLOVkR-Do you remember
the first velvet bean you ever
saw? You know how hard it
was to get you to begin growing
velvet beans and to see the real
value OF growing, them. Well,
clover will prov9just as valuable
to your farms as the velvet bean.
The sooner you begin the prac-
tlce OF sowing small plot OF
crimson clover for grazing and
put bur clover in your bermuda
seed tor permanent pastures, the
better it will be for the South.
Sow a small plot and increase
gradually. Crimson clover is a
demonstrated success on practi-
cally every soil type in the South
where the drainage is good. Use
20 pounds of seed to the acre and
be sure that you inoculate the
seed before sowing Poor stands
frequently occur from covering
too deep. Nitrogen in the form of
nitrate of soda is by far the most
expensive fertilizing element that
ting Southern farmer buys. 35,-
OOO tons of atmospheric nitrogen
lie above every acre OF land in the
South. Crimson clover has the
power to collect and store this
in the plant at the rate
of from Is to Us pounds per acre.
In othef words when the crop is
M ed under it has the fertilizing
of $50 pounds of nitrate of
DIS or 1900 pounds of cotton
meal. 1t will also give you
oNimately 26.S pounds of
n sphorus and 1872 pounds OF
n ash per acre. Crimson clover
nishes excellent grazing for all
Masses OF live stock. Sow bur
lover in your bermuda sod for
winter grazing and lespedeza for
summer grazing.
RYE-Plant lot of rye for
grazing. too. This is not a le-
gume, but it furnishes good graz
ing and makes good cover crop
to save ths<soil and to turn under
in the spring.
RAPE-All the farmers have
not learned the value of rape as
a grazing crop, yet. Try a small
plot this fall, plant in September
or October on good land drained
and we'll prepared. You will be
at the grazing you will
get from this, coming in at time
when it is needed.
WHEAT do not think that
farmers will make a mistake to
SOW enough wheat for home use.
Growing all the supplies you pos
sibly can on the farm is not a bad
practice any time and with the
boil weevil taking part of your
best money crop away from you.
wheat for home use is worth CON
sidering, Another advantage it
saves your soil from washing and
works we'll into a crop rotation
plan. 1t furnishes good grazing
but should not be grazed to ruin.
For further information on Win
ter cover crops, see your County
Agent, or phone S50-L.
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