The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-07-27
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system in Farminq.

Editor Herald: My system OF farm
ing has advanced the crops OF my
farm one-third in the last ten years
This harvest there were twenty five
large loads of hay on ten acre lot.
a mixture of red clover timothy and
alsike clover. This makes the very
best of hay.
All small grain should be sown the
last ten days of March, for the mid
summer heat makes less yield OF
grain. Glover should be sown with the
small grain.
Without fail follow six year 70.
tation. Some may say life is too short
to do this, but ] find this rotation
destroys most of the weeds and would
make the state yield one-third more
grain, hay and pasture.
Last spring / put down a field to
grass; sowed it to alsike clover red
clover and timothy. II has produced
twice the pasture az an old pasture
would have done. The oats went So
bushels to the acre last year on the
same piece.
The work was well done. II is
beauty to see: no weeds. Before / put
1t to corn will cover this piece with
manure, then the corn will grow. It
will be an immense yield. / have had
over eighty bushels OF corn per acre.
II will put il to corn three years In
succession.
Some may say the rot work wiz
hurt the corn the last year This may
happen some years but seldom to am
1 great extent
The fourth year the same piec
should be put to small grain fnd Y
| the same time with the grain sow
one part alsike to two parts red clov-
err. This will make lots Of pasture,
which will destroy many weeds. II is
too long from August TO November to
let the land do nothing but grow
weeds, but the butter print sheep is
the best to turn on the stubble. They
are wed killers and at the same time
enrich the ground The clover will help
to enrich the ground also.
The next year put to corn, which
will be a good crop. The next year to
small grain and back TO grass. With
this plan carried out no one need be
poor in Mahaska county on a forty
acre farm, and Mahaska would be the
richest county In the union in its farm
land.
We have the soil and the banks of
all streams lined with useful timber.
Let every land owner look to the next
generation. If we get nothing for our
trouble in planting trees. someone
will and bless mankind. The old world
THAT was stripped of its trees have be
come desert.
| feed a carload of sters each year
and fatten on an average of 100 hogs
and as many sheep and twenty horses
In feeding your hogs | feed oats all
day till five in the afternoon. then they
will not suffer with the heat II is best
to feed the oats unground. as they
heat and spoil in hot weather which
will injure the hog. Keep salt where
the hog can get it at all times. II they
can't get salt the hog is more apt to
die. The same is true of sheep. ! fat
ten my sheep with oats and corn. The
hog should have plenty of clover and
rape They should be on the pasture
whenever they choose In the evening
give them all the corn they will eat.
then there will be none that will die
from over heat In cold weather they
should have three fourths corn and
one fourth oats find that bran is in
furious to the hog: for young shoats 1t
| s good but expensive.
John Arnold. Cedar Iowa.