The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-03


than anything else during the dry
months OF August. September and
October.
Our cows doubled In the amount
Of milk they were giving when we
turned them on the Sudan stubble
after | had cut the grass for seed
They ate the tender shoots which
slooled out from the old stalks"
Five years ago Hawkins planted
three acres This year he has
twenty-five. Ills five years ex-
perience and observations have
taught him that nothing else suits
Oklahoma weather conditions as
well as Sudan. he says.
While the sod pasture was still
green one year on the farm Of o.
Rea, near Canutc, cows ate com
pletely a stack of spoiled Sudan
which was piled in the field be-
cause IL had been rained on and
was considered unfit for winter
use Hawkins believes the fod-
der left from good crop equal
Kafir fodder in feed value.
Wood Hog Pasture.
To grow $50 pound hog on
ten bushels Of grain and Sudan
] PASTURE is the claim OF George
/ McAlester, near Dill To have a
green pasture the year around is
. q wkins' plan now. He has raised
wheat all along. He knows how
much pasture he can get out Of
that His five years experience
has taught him how to manage Su-
dan.
He will plant Sudan at cotton
! planting time in May. Then it
=, will be up large enough for hog
pasture by the time 70 take the
hogs off the wheat. In case the
/ grass does not get large enough
20 pasture or he must take the hogs
! out Of the wheat sooner than he
expects TO, he will turn them into
an oat field for few days. BY
managing crops this way he Gays
he will have a dependable hog pas
ture The whole year.
To get more hay and seed during
the dry years than during wet sea
sons has been Hawkins experience,
but the grass grows better during
a normal season than IL does in
extreme wet weather or extreme
dry weather He has never had
Sudan 30 die on account Of drouth.
/ although several years his native
pasture was dried out By hot winds
you can put il down that Su-
dan makes a good substitute for
alfalfa, which we people on sandy
/ upland farms in Oklahoma cannot
grow For hay | cut Il when Il
begins TO bloom. SOW from ten
% twelve pounds Of seed b the
acre on my mixed land Il will
stool better on rich land and eight
pounds Of seed might be enough
have planted my hay crop as late
as August, but the seed crop should
be planted early"
! Hawkins has made enough from
the hay and seed on some % bis
crops 70 pay for the land. although
Sudan ia not regarded a. a money
crop He got 1000 pounds Of seed
from eighteen acres one year, or
! 500 pounds % the acre, some Of
which he sold 20 neighbors at II
cents a pound. The rest he sold
at wholesale az 2 cents.
Plant in Rows.
/ Stock help cultivate the grass on
/ the place. He plants In rows as
I close as he can list. Then he gives
/ i AZ least one cultivation 10 kill
out the grass between the rows
/ before he turns his stock in Cows,
hogs and horses walk between the
rows while grazing and in this way
keep the weeds and grass tramped
down.
Crabgrass will get Sudan. &C
cording 20 Hawkins. unless IL Is
kept down. That Is why Sudan
drilled in or sowed broadcast is
not as good as when planted II
rows. In broadcasted field,
stock tramp on the Sudan while
picking il out and leave the weeds
/ The pasture Is soon ruined. When
/ planted in rows, cows go along the
middles or go straight across the
row without doing much damage.
II plant late in the spring long
after the late frost and not until
the ground is warm had ten
acres last year planted later than
the rest Of the crop which produced
twice as much hay and seed as DID
any other ten acres planted when
/ the land was wet and cold
Il have never had any stock
poisoned on Sudan. | begin 20
pasture il when Il is about knee
high and try 90 keep enough stock
on II 70 keep IL short. " not pas
tured close IL becomes stemmy.
Young. tender shoots are what the
stock like. Hoes do not Craze
as close IS DO horses and cows A
hog will eat little here and then
20 on while cows and horses will
eat a spot pretty bare"
One Of Hawkins neighbors keeps
two fields Of Sudan for pasture
He lets the cows run on one field
while the other is building up and
then he turns the cattle back on the
first field.