Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-05-07
Immediate Planting is Urged.

Immediate PlantlnS Is OrSeu.
The food situation demands liberal
production. 1t is imperative that
every acre capable of producing
crops be planted to those things
which will be in demand. The Pa
cific northwest is located at the end
of transportation lines. We must
specialize on foodstuffs that yield
large amount of nutrients per acre
and that can be shipped readily Ore
gon farmers should produce large
quantities of the early maturing
spring grains and other seeds for this
year. We should specialize on spring
wheat, spring baEey and on the heav-
ier, wetter lands spring oats is an
especially good crop to grow.
We will also seriously need crops
that will make cheap feed for live
stock. Spring oats and spring barley
will also be in demand to consider
able extent this year for hay pur-
poses. Corn makes one of our high
est yielding producers of stock feed,
both for grain and for silage pur-
poses. Early varieties of corn such
as Minnesota No. 23, Oregon Dent.
and Minnesota King will provide an
abundance of grain for hog, sheep
and cattle feed, and even to some ex-
ten for horse-feed'ng purposes.
Later varieties, such as Minnesota
No. 1S, Golden Glow, Pride of the
North and so forth, will give a good
tonnage of silage of excellent quality
OF these crops, oats suffers most by
late seeding Wheat should be seed
ed as promptly as possible. Barley
should be seeded as early as possible,
but is injured least of the small cere-
ais by late seeding. Corn should not
be seeded until the ground warns up
we'll, and is ordinarily not planted
until May 1 or afterward except in
warm sections.
One of our best crops for moder-
ately late planting is the field bean,
especially of the Lady Washington
variety. Varieties of the early white
and c0ored bush beans will give
splendid returns under conditions in
most warm southern and Willamette
valley counties, as well as the Column
b'a basin section. Beans are success
full only after the land warns up well.
and no crop is more productive of
food per acre.
Sugar beets, mangels, rutabagas
and carrots can still be seeded for a
while and are good crops to grow at
this time-the sugar beets for sugar
manufacture, the other roots for
stock feeding purposes and in some
localities for driving. Potatoes have
a wide range of Planting and may be
planted very late. Indications are,
however, that our acreage of potatoes
will be ample.
Liberal plaatings Of clover should
he made with the grain in order to
provide hay for next years needs
Most of these crops thrive better
if planted early, but some of them,
such as the barley, corn and flax,
will give fairly good returns when
planted late. OF the crops which may
be planted late, flax for seed is one
of the best. Flax for seed purposes
is very necessary in our system in the
northwest and the linseed cake makes
splendid feed for livestock,
Another crop which is usually
planted late and which does well is
buckwheat-on moist soils the Tar
tartan buckwheat; on others, the
Japanese or Silver-hull variety.
Millet may be seeded late for hay
purposes, although 1t should be used
only in an emergency in that it is not
very productive except on very warm
soils. Kale is ore of our best pro-
ducers of succulence for livestock and
may be transplanted in June or July
when there is sufficient moisture in
the soil, Turnips seeded late make
fine stock feed.
Moving pasture lands when the
weeds are in full bloom is an excel
lent practice, as it prevents the form
alton of weed seeds. Most weeds,
even of the perennial type, can grad