The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-08-10
FARM NOTES Or INTESEST
BY THE COUNTY AGENT

Now is the time to be planning for
your winter cover and grazing crops
Decide what you are going to plant in
this line and mako arrangements to
get your seed. Possibly you can buy
them comparatively and save some
thing on the cost IF the seed. Some
OF the farmers have already spoken to
me about locating seed for them, and
helping, them with the planting of
some of these crops that they have
not yet grown.
1t is an assured fact that we must
use still less commercial fertilizers if
we are to be able to continue in the
farming business. Yet we can not af-
ford to have our yields materially re
duccd. The use Of winter cover crops
which preventing washing and leach
ing during the winter and that add
nitrogen and humus to your soils will
go alon gway toward reducing the
fertilizer bill without reducing the
yield. Did you ever sec poor piece
OF land that was we'll supplied with
humus ! dare say no. When you
see land that has plenty of humus in
1T, you see rich soil
AbruZZi rye, oats or vctch and oats,
burr clover and crimson clover arc
some of the best cover crops The
clovcrS Of course have the ADVANTAGE
of being lcgumcs and therefore add
nitrogen to the soil. On the other
hand they are probably not as sure
crops as are the small grains. On
some of the clay soils in certain parts
Of the county, I believe that crimson
clover would grow we'll.
If | can help you in getting the
seed or with starting any of these
crops, please feel free to call on me.
Hog Feeding and Marketing
Experiments at about twelve or
fourteen experiment stations in the
South and West clearly show that
when corn alone is fed to average hogs
1t requires on the average $50 pounds
or corn to make 100 pounds of gain.
mat is approximately 10 bushels of
corn produce 100 pounds; of hog.
"hcrc a balanced ration is fed the
amount OF corn necessary to make
100 pounds of gain is greatly reduced.
and the cost of this gain is likewise
reduced. The Nebraska Station found
mat pigs ON straight corn ration re-
quIrcd 5S3 pounds for 100 pounds
gam, while pigs fed ration of nine
tenths corn and onc-tenth tankage re-
Qulrcd 446 pounds of corn and 81
pounds Of tankagc for 100 nounds
gam. Many other experiment stations
have obtained similar results. It is
therefore very apparent that a farm
en- can hardly afford to feed his hogs
ON a ration Of corn and nothing else.
NelVet beans, peas, oats, soy beans,
wheat bran and other available feeds
VIII have an effect very similar to
tankagc. That is, they will make
your hogS grow faster and put on
more flesh for the feed eaten I'm
other words the use of these feeds
along with your corn will enable vou
TO produce pork very cconomicallV.
Last week good hogs weighing from
100 to 200 pounds were BRINGING II
cents on the Baltimore market. or
Sl".GO per hundred pounds. Kccniup
IN mind now that 10 bushels of corn.
or much less when fed IN coni,mction
with other feeds, will give 100 pounds
gam, doesn't it look as il you c,:m mar
ket Nunr corn TO pretty good advan-
2g" through your hogs? If You arc
gong TO have an over supply of corn
this fall. why not get out and buy nm
a few Shoats and feed them for mar
kct?
If YOU are going to have hoes for
sal" this fall or wintcr-whcthcr one
on a hundrcd-lct me know about il
and we will try to sell them to the
pest advantage possible
W. r. Gray, County Agent.