The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-08
FIELD AND OTHER NOTES
 BY BEN F. GREER

We have been too busy to write Tor publication for some time. Since cur last communication we have vacclna'eo more than 300 hogs, and we are glad to note that cholera seeinS to be g'VihS AWAY. Hogs are high and farmers are cleaning up many of them too clean, selling hogs that are not ready to market: but under existing clrcum- stances it is about all they can do, but if they had sowed COW peas, soy beans or planted few acres of peanuts laSt springs they could have realized far better money for their hogs. The sooner our farmers realize that there is better way to handle hogs, prepare pasture for them, immune their bteed- ipg stock the better for them. for they will find them the most profitable live stock they can raise, for they will be able to turn their hogs at eight and ten months of age, making far better profit than they are now doing.
 I, will pay every farmer to sow all the rye, winter oats and crimson clover he can for cover crops and pasture. Feed will be high and hard to buy and much of the expensive feed bills can be saved by having some good winter pasture. Sow the rye, winter turf oats and crimson clover just as early as you get season, The oats should be drilled in for best results. Crimson | clover should be Sowed on the best land and should be inoculated for best results, sowing ten to fifteen pounds per acre. If you buy winter oats seed examine closely for cheet and reclean if you find any in your seed, SOW bushel and peck to bushel and half per acre. Now some red clover for hog pasture will save your hogs next spring when feed is scarce. Here in Carroll county we could have green pasture crops for hogs every month in the year and make far more money out of our hogs than we ever will letting them ''root hog or die' as many of us are doing.
 We need to get our heads and hands to cooperating in our farm operations and we will not do what we should un- til we put more thought in our business. Every farmer should plan his farm work ahead; blaming a systematic TO- tation of crops in order to build the producing power of the soil. Raise more live stock to utilize the idle acres. In doing this he will be able to increase his income and at the same time more rapidly increase the fertility of the soil.
 We have visited the schools at Me Cannon, Cove, Farmer, Rule, Gardner and Osage, in the Eastern District. and Brooklyn and Winona Springs in the Western District. Found pupils and teachers hard at work, and far better interest in agricultural work than last year. If we give the boys and girls chance they will help us redeem our run down farms and take pleasure in doing it. Encourage your boys and girls to take a plat of ground for next year; manure and break it for them this fall; SOW on some kind of cover crop to hold the fertility, break it deep- CT than it has ever been broken before, if possible. Turning under the cover crop next spring, let them cultivate it under department instructions and you will be proud of their showing next fall. The hot, dry weather has ruined many of their crops this year for the reason that they made their prepara- ton tiiiSs ttihiis spring aa aaapuripg heavily. thus burning the crop up. Encourage them to try again.