The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-14
WINTER FEED
'SUPPLYCUTBY
DROUTH here
.Soybeans Best Producer of
Three Fast Maturing
Emergency Crops
By E. T. FRISBIE

placed the farmer with much live
stock in a precarious position.
Our best bet to produce hay of
good quality is soybeans. Hay can
vet be made from soybeans oy
! sowing some of the earlier matur-
ing yarieties-Haberlandt, Wilson
3 Black, Virginia Brown, or Laredo.
These varieties mature rapidly
!; when planted late in the season,
F, but do not attain the height they
7 do when planted earlier IN the
season. They should be seeded
about one-half or one-fourth
thicker than when planted earlier.
The increase in the seeding rate
will partially compensate for the
lack of height and give good
yield per acre.
Sudan grass will make hay IN
about so days. 1t may be sowed
Tow itself or with legumes. Inc
smixing of legumes and Sudan
gives a larger yield per acre, and
INCREASES the value of the hay Tor
Heed. When sowed by itself Su-
dan grass should be seeded at the
rate of 20 to 80 pounds per acre
tWhen sowed in combination with
hepumes or one of the above soy
beans, Is pounds of Sudan and
Hour to six pecks of beans make
la good combination. This Will
llgive a good yield per acre OF good
quality hay. =.
German Millet is another fast
maturing crop that may be sowed
.inow. 1t makes a good hay, but,
hike Sudan grass, the quality OF
the hay will be much better II
soybeans are sowed with it. The
usual seeding rate for millet alone
lis 30 to 40 pounds per acre ana
one-half the amount with three 10
four pecks of soybeans:
Wheat or rye stubble may be
fused to good advantage for tall
|ihav production. A good double
fdisking will put the ground IN
egood shape for sowing. An appil-
cation of 200 pounds of some COM
Ilplete fertilizer such as 4-S-4 VIII
help bring the crop along.
II The best quality of Sudan grass
,or Millet hay can be secured by
cutting when the heads are fully
Horned, but before any SEEDS
form. Earlier cutting reduces the
food nutrinets while hays cut later
lis woody and unpalatable. These
tcrops make excellent supplements
Nor short pastures. They may be
aprazed OF cut and fed green. How
lever, care should be exercised
9when grazing Sudan grass as
tthere is danger of prussic acid
poisoning after the crop has SUI
lfered setback. such as severe
dry spell or cutting.
N Small grains are one of our
best means of solving our short
Need problem. They may be sowed
lin a number of different combina-
Lions of the small grains and Aus
lltrian Winter peas, yetch, and
crimson clover. When used in this
manner these crops can be made
20 serve four-fold purpose: ~
furnish late grazing in the fall;
.k2) they help in the control of
Erosion; (3) provide early spring
pasture; (4) give a good early
hay crop. -
The best time to seed barley,
we, vetch, wheat and Austrian
winter peas for hays is from Sep
sember IS to October Is. When
IN { is desired to have more fall
iyrazing these crops can be Sowed
Earlier. Rye should be grazed
Enough to keep it from heading
.lf it is sowed before September l.
harley, one of our best feed crops
lis a grain or hay, should De sowed
,omewhat earlier than the other
mall grain crops. Small grains
For HAYS should be mixed with
.ome legume as this adds to the
Needing value and increases the
Availability. Hay mixtures of this
Lind should have more seed sowed
Der acre when sowed singly; as
The several species planted togeth-
AR will stand closer crowdlng.
This gives more hay per acre.
When sowing a mixture of le-
kumes and small grains for hay
ID is an advantage to have two
krains and two legumes as one OF
3ither class may fail while the
Ather is left to provide a crop.
when seeding vetch or Austrian
kinter peas for the first time it IS
advisable to inoculate, the seed to
insure a good stand.
AS was mentioned in the begin
Ming, there can be larger num-
Ter of different combinations with
sarying amounts of seed. The fol-
ilbwing are some combinations that
lave been used in the state with
iood results:
I'll. Crop Kate per acre
Wheat l gu.
y oaTl6J .------------ -
FEetch or IDS
austrian winter peas-----2O lbs.