River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-18

used IN raising certiIled seed IN tnat
locality.
| Fertilizer experiments will be run
i'll different parts of the county the
coming season for the purpose of
| showing the value OF commercial fer
tilizer on different crops and differ
ent soils. These experiments will be
run on the following farms: F. E.
| McCue, River Falls; Stirrat Bros,
Prescott; w. B. Erickson, Hager City;
VIM. Sorenson, Esdale; and Oscar
Anderson, Ellsworth. Further infor-
nation concerning these experiments
will appear in these notes later.
Why should you grow soybeans?
/. They add nitrogen to the soil
] like alfalfa and clover.
| 2. They provide legume hay in
one season.
8. They will grow on vide variety
of soils and with the exception of the
extreme south will grow wherever
corn will mature.
A. They will stand considerable
| frost.
5. They are easily raised and har
| vested.
6. Added to silage they greatly in
crease its feed value.
7. The ground beans are valuable
feed for dairy cows.
Seed can be obtained at all Farm
ers' Elevators handling seeds. | have
ordered enough only for farmers who
have placed their orders with me some
time ago and will not have any extra
seed. Different varieties of soybeans
will be tried with corn for silage in
every township in Pierce county so by
next fall we shall be able to tell what
varieties are best for this county.
Data on these plots will be published
in these notes during the season.
Now is the time to swat the fly.
If allowed to live the first fly that
appears in spring lays cluster OF 70
to 100 eggs. She repeats this two or
three times during the summer. These
eggs hatch in IL to Ia days. In S
days they are full grown flies and
start laying eggs. By fall the old
mother fly is the proud ancestor of |
5,698, 721 100000 flies. Each of her
daughters, granddaughter, and great
granddaughters, ETC., can boast Of the
same record. Is it worth while to
swat the fly now?
Experiments have just been COM
pleted at the Wisconsin Experiment
station showing that yellow corn ex-
cells white corn for feeding pigs. Re-
suits are as follows: 1. Yellow corn
has greater feeding value than white
corn, because the yellow corn contains
considerable of the mysterious fat
soluble vitamin" (which is present in
the butterfat of milky and the white
corn contains little or none. Green
leaved parts of plants also contain
this vitamin, so the difference in feed
ing value between yellow and white
corn does not apply to animals which
eat plenty of pasture or good green
| hay.
2. For pigs on excellent pasture,
there is no difference in the feeding
| value of these two kinds of corn.
When pasture becomes scant in the
| fall, pigs fed yellow corn gain rapid
" over those fed white corn. Under
winter conditions, with no fresh green
feed available, pigs on yellow corn far
outstrip the others.
3. In rations Of corn and tankage,
corn and linseed meal, corn and
wheat middlings, and corn and skim
milk, yellow corn produced larger and
more economical gains on pigs than
| did white corn. Of the pigs fed white
corn and separator skim milk "a ra-
ton very low in fat-soluble vitamin)
most of them died of ricketts, or pneu.
monia. 1t seems that both of these
diseases may be caused by lack OF
| fat-soluble vitamin in the ration.
4. White corn can be fed to pigs in
fall and winter if small amount
five per cent? of chopped alfalfa hay
is added to ration Of white corn and
skim milk. It is probable that chop
ped clover or soybean hay would
serve the same purpose.
1 5. Alfalfa did not improve ration
of yellow corn and skim milk, but it
did improve ration of yellow corn
and tankage. Best results were Sc
cured with ration of yellow corn,
tankage, linseed meal, and a small