The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-05-25
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best of the corn is sometimes gathered, and
the hogs are then turned into the fields to
do the harvesting of peanuts and off grade
corn.
The Florida Runner is the variety most
used as pasturage, because of the fact that
the nuts keep we'll in the soil till late winter.
and the variety is a heavy yielder. Some
small Spanish are planted for quick ma
turing pasture: A very few growers raise
valenclas-which are mostly sold for seed.
Recently much interest was aroused in the
large Virginia Bunch variety, and several
hundred acres will be planted to this variety
In 1922. They have had the reputation in
the past OF producing too many "pops," but
Tor the past few years this trouble has been
overcome in an adjoining county by the use
of land plaster.
This variety is properly planted in 3O-inch
rows with plants eight inches apart in the
rows. The vines are erect in habit of growth
and can be cut for hay at about maturing
time, thus making better hay than when
pulled" Virginia Bunch have sold this
season at about double the price of Florida
Runners.
HAYS
Inc very large number of hay plants, and
the ease with which they can be grown
makes every farmer independent so far as
forage is concerned. The list includes the
! legumes: field peas, velvet beans, soy beans,
!espedeza; the grasses: Napier, Merker.
Natal, Dallls, Rhodes and para, any sor-
ghum, any millet, Kaffir, milo, feterita.
| teosinte and crab grass.
They are grown alone and in various COM
blnatlons. While most of the plants of the
above list are pastured off, practice that
! IS profitable both because of labor saved and
because of the year-round seasons in which
| livestock can be kept out doors, some OF
about all these crops is harvested.
Field peas are standard annual legume
They are sowed alone or in corn fields at
last cultivation, or drilled in rows and cult
waited They can be planted from March to
september. Where not grown on the land
previously their seed should be inoculateo
with held pea bacteria. The Brabham, Iron
and Victory varieties are the only varieties
that are not attacked by nematode worms
which cause injury to the roots of many OF
our truck plants by letting in the germs thai
produce root knot. Other varieties of peas
narDor the nematode and increase the infes
tation and danger of root knot to the sub
sequent crops. A good yield of field pea o.
cow pea hay Is ton per acre. Two ton:
have been reported in Marion county Tn,
cost OF production is low. Raising seed O.
Brabham, Iron or Victory varieties is prof
table as they always command a premium i,
price at planting time These varieties will
give fair yield of hay after the peas ar
picked, though many growers cut the seed
Peas improve the soil in texture and by add
/ ing nitrogen.
Velvet beans are rarely cut for hay. tn
some OF the dwarf varieties are so handled
However, they are very widely grown an,
. used as pasture crop in fall and winter. Tn
mature beans picked make very good fee
. for all livestock. They are especially valu
able In the dairy cow ration.
Soy beans are not widely grown, though
the yields are good when inoculated see
! are used and the amount of nitrogen left i
the SOIL by the roots is larger than tina
: from cow peas. The hay is richer in foo
value and more palatable than pea hay t
all kinds of livestock The heavier types O
soil, especially where limestone is present
, are best suited to soy BEANS One thin
! against the soy bean is that it is subject t
] root knot disease and leaves larger infec
ton in the soil; that is, provided root kno
already existed in the soil.
Beggarweed is wild hay legume in tn
sense that it reseeds itself and grows with
|. out replanting. However, large quantitie
OF seed are sown for the purpose of gettin
the land seeded. There is no danger of beg
e garweed becoming a pest. The feedin
e value of this hay well cured is said to b
;, very nearly equal to that of alfalfa hay.
The Mung bean has not been introduce
S INTO the state long enough to warrant
e publication as to what its possibilities ar
: A lew farmers grew patches of it and n
q port heavy yields on comparatively DOC
soils. We are hoping that it will become
f great hay crop.
4 Peanut vine hay may be said to be a b,
e product of the peanut crop. It is however
e very substantial part of Marion's hay GRO
When well cured the hay is of most exec
n lent quality and feeding value, and it is ver
e palatable The yield is frequently as hig