Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05
FARMING WITH HEAD,
HEART AND HANDS

| m0nOtOn0uS as where Single crop
system is followed.
Diversified farming is when a farm
er does not specialize in any one Ger
tain line, but keeps livestock and poui-
try and also raises some cash crops
Of the kind known to be well adapted
to his locality and conditions.
Fall blowing is extremely important
in most cases. 1t tends to make the
soil mellow and enables you to work
on your land much earlier in the
spring.
| Plant such crops as are most apt
to give best results in your line of
farming.
If you keep dairy cows and poultry,
keep good ones only, and no more than
you can feed properly.
It is losing proposition to be COM
PEELED to buy hay and grain in orde.
to winter your stock through.
Only the well fed and properly
housed dairy cows and poultry are
profitable.
Do not submit your cows to expos
ure. Give them fresh water at least
twice daily and access to salt occa-
sionally Have ventilation in your
barn.
Raise legume hay only, such as clio
ver Peas and oats and soy beans. All
legumes are rich in protein.
The dairy COW requires ration rich
in protein Many of our farm raised
feeds are too low in protein. Legumes
also make the best silage. Corn sllage.
however, is excellent and yields nearly
three times as much per acre as any of
the legumes. Practice a system of crop
rotation. 1t helps to maintain soil
fertility and enables you better to con-
troll weeds. A three or four-year rota
! ton is the best for this locality.
The three year rotation is when al
the land under pillow is divided into
three fields. One field has cultivated
crops such as corn, potatoes, roots or
cabbage. The second field has oats
seeded with clover and the other field
has clover hay. These crops should
follow each other in rotation year afte~
year. Oats follow cultivated crops.
Hay follows oats and cultivated crops
follow hay.
A four-year rotation has either two
fields in grain or two fields in hay.
| Manure the land for cultivated crops.
Second crop or rutabagas may be
grown on same land as a second crop.
Same crops can be raised after
crop of Alaska canning peas have been
removed.
Two crops of peas and oats should
! also be grown where clover is winter
killed or rutabagas may be grown in
place of second crop of peas and oats.
Do not raise two crops in one sea-
son unless a legume is the predominant
factor in the crops. Legumes are SOL
| builders. Roots do not deplete the
| land if the tops are left on field. Corn,
rye, wheat, millet, and timothy are
soil depleters.
Corn, however, grows so abundantly
and is so useful that it is worth while
| to give it a prominent place in rota-
ton where clover is grown also.
| Timothy is very useful as pasture
grass Two pounds timothy and Lhree
pounds alsike makes an excellent mix
ture of seed for brushed land. A
small amount of timothy is also deslr-
able in the clover seed for tame hay.
When new land is cleared and ready
for a good crop before June 14tll, plant
corn or potatoes. If LAND is not ready
until about July 10th, SOW peas aud
oats, soy beans or rutabagas. If land
is not ready until about September
10Th, SOW rye and winter vetch. Cut
this for hay before rye goes into bloom
and when the hay is removed the field
may be left as it is and will produce
good second crop of hay or an excel
| lent pasture Glover seed may also be
sown when first crop is removed and
the field left in hay or pasture for a
number of years until it is more fit t.
| be titled.
good hay. Cut clover just at is goes
into bloom peas and oats as soon as
the first pods appear, soy beans when
the first pods are formed. Inoculate
all Iegume Seed, especially soy bears.
To plant one acre, requires follow
ing amounts of seeds:
8 pounds corn for ears. Is pounds
for fodder.
21a to bu. oats. Two pounds tim
othy and to pounds clover.
Two blu. of barley or spring wheat.
Two bu peas with one blu. oats for
hay.
Three blu. peas if soWn alone.
One and three-fourths blu. rye or
wheat.
One and one-fourth vetch with three
fourths rye for hay or pasture.
One-half bu. soy beans if sown in
drills and cultivated.
One-half to ree-fourths pounds of
rutabaga seed in drills.
| Ten bu. potatoes.
Do not use anything but clean and
| tested seeds.
Sow early. 1t gives higher yields.