Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-05-24
WITH The COUNTY AGENT
Hi Spots from the County AgricuItur-
al Office


Shorthorn Breeders Meeting
The Vernon County Shorthorn Breed
ers Association viii hold their annual
picnic on Thursday. June LIST, 1922, at
Rockton, Wis, on the Van S. Bennett
farm. A real day of outing has been
planned by the entertainment COM
mittee, Messrs. ]. S. EARL, E. J. Stan
Elk and Abner Gochenaus. Good speak
ers viii be in attendance
All Shorthorn breeders and those
interested in Shorthorn breed of cattle
or real day of outing are invited to
spend Thursday, June LIST, THE Van
5. Bennett farm. Mr.. Clyde Huschka,
secretary of the association, suggests
that everyone bring well filled baskets
and come earyl. Mr.. Earl promises
to furnish Shorthorn cream for the
coffee.
An Error
Recently there was published in the
University Press Bulletin an article
which gave the idea Of many of the
Wisconsin readers that an acre of soy
beans would require from 2ih to BIZ
bushels of seed. This is an error. As
YOU we'll know the reporter simply
twisted his figures, in that one bushel
planted In rows would plant from 21z
to 3 " acres. Soy beans broadcasted
require from to 6 pecks per acre, de-
pending upon the fertility of the soil.
Where the soil is very fertile the les
ser quantity of seed it requires.
Clover An Intangible Asset
Mr.. Anton Nelson of LaFarge tells
how he has kept up his farm fertility
and how he expects to keep it UP in
the future. Il have always aimed to
keep a considerable portion of my
farm in meadow. 1t has been neces-
sary for me to do this in order to keep
the hillside from washing. Often
times have attempted to rotate crops
on my steep side hills but invariably
have lost out. / try to keep rota-
ton of clover, corn, oats and barley,
in this way have ample opportunity
to distribute the fertility evenly over
the farm. / keep a considerable herd
of Jersey cattle and in this way util-
ize all the feed that | raise at home
Moreover it gives me an opportunity
to increase the fertility of my farm
by purchasing feed and bringing it
back to the land in the form of plant
food.
You may be surprised to see the
condition of my Jersey cattle but they
are no exception. With average care
any man can keep herd of cattle in
the condition that keep mine. be-
lieve this is profitable for / have al
ways found my cattle to respond read
lily to good feed and care. And you
can rest assured that when have a
barn full of hay feel pretty well sup
piled with feed for the winter.
The clover that you see about my
farm is just an average stand of Glow
er. he clover stems now twenty inch
1apo &c No av1onffonol frroxt-fb fos
clover on my farm on the 18th of May
find that wherever / keep up a good
plant food ration over the farm ! can
grow good clover. From the stand of
clover you will readily realize that
these plants are not at all sickly but
are in healthy condition, strong and
vigorous and will keep up good
growth throughout the entire sum-
mer.
During the past few years I have
noticed on some fields that there is a
bit of horse sorrel growing and also
very light green colored moss. These
conditions all indicate that the soil is
just bit sour which makes it favor
able for these plants to develop. How
ever / do not know how much lime
stone is needed to correct this acid
condition. / am now having samples
Oh sui JeSJeu anu tdttT Will PURCHASE
limestone. expect to cover my en-
tire farm with an application of lime
stone Just as soon as time will permit.
expect to do most of this during the
winter months when hauling can be
done with sleigh.
! do not claim to know great deal
about farming for have farmed only
for some twenty years, but do know
that each year as / take crops from
my farm the total amount of plant
food becomes less. / believe the time
is not far distant when we will have
to depend upon some commercial
source of plant food with which to
grow our plants. 1t is just matter
of time when the growth of our crops
will distinctly show this very need
which speak of"
Fom the standpoint of a. tobacco
grower / can say that it is most inn
portant that we use great care in ro-
Eating our tobacco soils. On many of
our fields now given to growing tobac-
co the amount of plant food depleted
is so marked that the quality of tobac-
co is rapidly becoming poorer each
year. / for one cannot expect to
grow tobacco on the same soil year
after year without giving back to the
soil a portion of that plant food which
is removed by each crop. / believe,
however, that our agriculture can be
improved by more thorough system
of cropping and crop rotation. And the
most economic means of maintaining
our farm fertility is to begin by keep
ing good herd of livestock and mar
keting our roughages through the live
stock rather enan selling this fertility
on the open market in pounds of hay
and in pounds of grain Unfortunate
1y in the case of tobacco we must sell
the entire fertility or plant food grown
into the crop for we have no way of
utilizing it at home. For this reason
do not grow more than two acres of
tobacco each year, but will say that
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