Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-27
WORM DAMAGE
PREVENTED BY
MAY PLANTING

May TO 10 we can uOuSS ItloSI Duu-
worm damage. Even then it pays to
use liberal quantity of seed to allow
for some insect damage.
One of the best silage makers is
sorghum can and Biloxi soybeans
planted together. Plant so as to have
two or three stalks of each per foot.
This thick planting results in smaller
stalks, and therefore a better quail
ity of silage.
The best varieties of sorghum for
silage are the Gooseneck or Texas
Seeded Ribbon, and Japanese Seeded
Ribbon cane. Because sorghum pro-
duces so much more tonnage per acre
than corn, it is being used more and
more extensively for this purpose.
Three tons of silage contains about
the same feeding value as one ton
good legume hay may be produced on
an acre. Because good silage may
now be made in easily constructed
trench silos, no farmer keeping six
or more cattle can afford to overlook
silage.
For oil mill purposes, grow only
yellow seeded varieties of soybeans
high in protein-such as Mammoth
Yellow, Delnoshat, Mamloxi, Mamo-
TAM, Mamredo, Delsta, Tokyo green
ish Yellow.
Planting with grain drill is a good
method of putting in soybeans for
hay, stopping up spouts to give rows
about 20 inches apart. Two cult
vations to keep down the weeds and
grass are all that is necessary.
A half pound of 4-8-4 fertilizer,
mixed with half bushel or more of
stable manure, will make a good fer
tilizer for each hill of watermelons.
This month or next is good time
TO put in some Sericca lespedeza-15
to 20 pounds sacrificed seed per acre
on well prepared ground. Harrow in
lightly.
Treating cotton seed with Ceresan
before planting usually results in
better stands. The treatment is in
expensive and may save a hundred
times the cost. Where cotton is to
be planted on land subject to rust and
wilt, fertilize literally with potash
or a high potash fertilizer and plant
a variety somewhat resistant to wilt.
Want to save your own vetch seed?
Allow the seed to become fully ripe
and then rake up the plants with a
hayrake early in the morning while
the dew's on. Put under shelter or
elsewhere. Later seed can be beaten
out or threshed with threshing ma
chine, running quite slowly.
Do not make the first spring cut
ting of alfalfa until about a fourth
the plants are in bloom. Too early
cutting will injure the succeeding
crops.
For best sweet potato yields, set
plants 9 to IL inches in the row. APP
ply 75O to 1000 pounds per acre of
4-8-8 or 1910 fertilizer. Certainly
no less than 800 to 500 pounds should
be used.
Those needing early grazing or
hay should be put in some Sudan
grass as early as the ground has
warmed up. Planted on rich and well
prepared ground, it will be ready to
Craze in five to seven weeks.
When to 10 weeks old is a good
time to vaccinate pigs against hog
cholera. If cholera is within to 10
miles of you, better vaccinate all
hogs on the place.
The Louisiana Station found black
strap molasses equal to corn in feed
ing value for mules, if not over
pounds per day per mule are fed. 1t
is equal to corn when fed to steers
at the rate of not over pounds per
steer per day.
Hogs need salt, and it should be
kept before them at all times. How
ever, if they haven't had any for
some time, give a little at first and
gradually increase until they are get
ting all they want.
To prevent pullets starting laying
too early or before bodies are proper
ly developed, avoid giving them too
much protein before they reach the
laying age. The mash given them
should average not above Is per cent
protein, and with per cent of it
coming from animal protein. This
grade of mash, fed along with the
normal quantity of scratch grain, will
usually bring them to physical and
sexual maturity at about the same
time.