The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-06-21
BRITISHER HAS
CROP DOUblER
Farmer Proposes New Method to
Increase the Yield of the
Soil.
CLAIMS MANY ADVANTAGES
Proves Successful in the Experiment
al StaGe-British Government Ex-
ports Are Much Impressed
With Possibilities.

London.-In these days of cereal and
fodder shortage the farmer who sue
ceeds in growing two blades where
one grew before would be looked up0iI
rs Il public benefactor, but an English
farmer has succeeded in going enc
better and writes to the Times to give
details of the new nIethod.
He suggests that ii his plan is adopt
ed there will be more grazing !lilS
year, mere beef next winter, more oats,
wheat and hay in 1919, and more graz
in 1919. II the mex method is as sue
cessful over large acreage as it has
proved 10 be in the experimental stage
il may rightly be termed discovery
in agriculture.
The new method is as follows:
In July, by the use OF specially
devised drill, d winter cereal and an
artificial fertilizer are simultaneously
drilled through any grass land lntenu-
ed for haying the following year. BY
St1,tpubrr or October the cereal Will
hdve made 4 tOp-grOWth of from eight;
- ten inches. This is then Sr&Zed of
with the grass by whatever live stock
| is turned out upon it, and the grain,
nolninaliy an annual, is thus turned
| into q biennial by virtue OF its yIe!o
Cf valuable grazing in the autumn pre-
ceding the year OF the normal gram
| harvest.
Double Crop.
| The autumn grazing encourages ana
| strengthens the roots OF the cereal.
! Duin. To the protection from frost
t-given by tho covering of turf, normal
| <pring growth begins earlier, more
| heads are thrown UP. development is
/ more rauiG, and the grain rip2LS ar the
same time rs the hay, both being har'
vested together. The harvesting Is
| done by means of an ordinary nIowln-
| machine fitted with an extra knife 1t
The proper height above the grass !"
! cut the heads of the grain. The low
cr knife cuts the hay as usual and the
rnpar knife acts as header.
A carrier behind the 'hCaG@r' knife
deposits the Grain i'll separate
sWath.
Many Advantages.
| The advantages claimed for this
| method are may, among them being
| he following:
The productive capacity OF The land
| is doubled. Old and valuable grass
lands are not only not destroyed, but
| are improved. Economy Of !abD-
i throughout; blowing and narrowing
are not needed; both crops are gath
cred together. planting and rolling are
done at the same time, and the grain
crop is gathered with ease and GER
tainty, as there is no green groWti
with the grain 10 be stood in the SuT
e. dry. Economy Of fertilizers. 4
saving OF One-9lalf of the seed usually
needed. The autumn grazing * o. a
| fresh heterogeneous character. The pas
sage Of the drills through tie turf i'm
proves the surface drainage. tn,
eaual mixing of straw With the hay fol
fodder. The great convenience of July
| planting for the farmer
Saves Permanent Pasture.
II is asserted that under This meth"'
no permanent pasture need he broker
IN. rather that the larger part OF I'll,
arabic land might he put down t" per
mancnt pasture. The permanent PnS
lures are in hay and corn one year a'iC
.raZcd the next. In the spring of tn,
| grazing year seeds of annual lcSune,
can be planted through the pastures
with the same machine as is used
to drill in the grain, not only On &C
count of their feeding value, but also
to increase the nitrogen in the soil fol
the following cereal crop.
The drilling of the seed through The
turf IS accomplished by small knife
bladcd foot that can he attached y
any drill in place of the disk.
Government experts have been 81
impressed with the possibilities 0f the
method that priority certificates have
been granted for The Manufacture OF
tie fittings or the import of any part,
:. which may he. necessary if they can
i, not be obtained here in time for thi'
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