Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-27
BaIing Soy Bean Hay in Piedmont
Georgia

/ baiIng Soy bean RAY III IIeuiHoit,
Georgia
w. +. p, billiard, Ca, writes:
Can soy bean hay be baled? In
this section our rainfall is great
and we can have serious trouble
in getting this hay cured.
There is no reason why soy bean
hay should not be baled successfully
! in your section of the state provided
you can cure it out satisfactorily be-
fore the baling process is under
taken. I realize that you have an
excessive rainfall as compared with
! many sections, also that you have
frequent rains during the season
when soy beans would of necessity
be maturing. This complicates your
situation and makes the handling of
this crop on the basis indicated a
difficult undertaking. We have no
suggestion to offer as to how you
can overcome the difficulty by which
you are confronted. On the other
hand, we have answered the ques-
ton raised by you in the affirma-
tive, namely, that soy bean hay can
be successfully baled.
We think possibly if you were to
use hay caps and allow the beans
to cure for a considerabl BILE period in
the field before the baling is under
taken that you could handle the crop
with greater success than you have
probably experienced in the past.
These hay caps are made of heavy
duck or canvas. They have heavy
eyelets in the corners and a. string
and stake are attached to the four
corners to hold the haycaps over the
piles OF soy beans. This causes a
great portion of the water to shed
Off
Soy beans can be cured by piling
them around a stake to which a
short arm two feet long has been
nailed. These arms should be placed
about 6 inches above the ground
level.
We presume you have less rain in
September and October than at other
seasons of the year, and in that
event we would plant soy beans so
as to have them mature at the sea-
/ son when there is the least rainfall
Grasses and CIOvers Suited i'm North
Georgia
NJ. +. B., Black Mountain s.
c., writes: 1 am writing you for
advice about clover suitable for
soil improvement of gray sandy
soil. such as occurs in sections
! of Green county between Green's
| boro and White Plains, around
SLOAN. I jlan to broadcast this
clover in corn when the corn is
laid by and let the clover remain
over winter as a cover and in
the spring, when turned, as a
fertilizer crop. Please write me
at once whetr er this is the best
winter crop for this purpose.
what variety would you advise?
There are two kinds of clover YOU
could use for the purpose you have
IN mind. One would be Crimson
! clover and the other Bur clover. We
nave not had much success in grow
ing either one of these cIovers with
corn. Our best results have been
obtained with these crops where the
SOL was broken. In tie case of
! crimson clover, we have seeded II
dlone ana In association with cereals
| WIN very good results. One diff,
cultE IS 10 obtain good stand be-
Iole the cold weather of the late au-
Culilh sets IN. Bur clover should be
SEEDED Immediately. We would con.
tlhe It's use primarily to pasture
iahds. 1T should be scattered over
we surface and narrowed well into
me SOIL Bur clover is an annual
| o c WILL OF course, reseed itself.
| some hardy strains have recently
| oeeh developed which promise to be
y. great value for cultivation in
ueol ga. Ihls crop furnishes graz
ing curing February and April. If
Should then be allowed to form seed
dno ole down and so re-eSta blish its.
! sell Bur clover does best on rather
tlch SOILS. 1t Is best to seed if
n'lAed with Well-rotted yard manure
and acid phosphate.
MS cloVer Is not relished by cat.
tIe ana horses at first; but tkev soon
earn 10 IKE 1T. If broadcasted. ono
SHuoid use anywhere from fifteen TO
twenty bushels of seed per acre
pul IL painted in rows, a smaller
amount will be found suffh lent
HuIled Crimson clover seed should
ne soWn at the rate of about fifteen
POUNDS per acre. Inocculation. as
RUE IS not necessary, though this
may be good rpactice on new lands.
CoNei tue Seeo INTO the soil with
weeder, or ratker heavy brush har-
row. Fall grazing should, of course.
be avoided.
One-H0rse or Garden Tractors
M. T. e., Toomsboro, Ca,
writes: I want to know if there
Is tractor made smaller than
the Fordson Tractor have been
tod that | Codld buy a one
morse tractor. ! Will appreciate
II II you can give me any infor-
m2uon abort a one-horse
tractor
some attempt has been made to
pulId tractor 10 compete with the
Fordson, but, apparently, none of
THESE machines h&ve met the test
OF farm operations on a satisfactory
basis up to the present time. There
is a small tractor on the market