The Lexington advertiser., 1945-05-31

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BY I. W. carson
Communities wishing to take I'd
vantage Of the Smith -Doxey class
ing Of cotton may do 20 again thi!
year by making application befor,
August first. This classification car
be used when making application
Tor government loan provided Thu
sampler is bonded. His bond viii
cost $1,000.
It has been announced that cot
ton viii be classed at Greenwood
This year for farmers wishing tc
place their cotton In the government
loan. This will save great deal OF
time for farmers in this area, since
last year samples had to be sent to
Memphis or Jackson.
One way a farmer can help his
government with the problem Of in
8lation Is to build up financial re-
serve with his war time income.
This income win come in handy for
such things as repairing houses, re-
placing worn out machinery a. q
safeguard against crop failures, live
stock Losses and for the education
of children.
We continne 70 receive more and
more waEningS that We had better
raise more pigs and chickens for
meat and eggs for the coming fall
and winter. The pig crop In Holmes
County = considerably short a COM
pared with the past years. Where
farmers are ret up 70 - to take care
of hogs on pasture, this certainly
looks Ike q profitable year for hog
raising, provided feed win be pro-
duced to fatten them with.
So many times farmers feed hogs
Tor longer periods than necessary
trying 70 walt on the weather to
slaughter them. This u not neces-
sary any more in our modern times,
since the hog can be slaughtered
and taken toethe earring plant In
June a wen ~ nsSs -. ana he
meat can be cured S NJ 4atisfac-
tory. This 4 . medern Ecppsn{ancs
that the farmer can use n saving
moqky and feed. (
The farmers and agricultural
workers Of Holmes and adjoining
counties took part In q pasture tour
last. Thursday, taking them through
the communities Of Durant, Good
man and Pickens.
Throughout this tour, emphasis
was placed on pasture Improvement
practices, but study was given to
dairy and beef cattle management,
as well as AAA regulations. Regu-
lations on stock ponds and other
practices on which AAA assistance
Il available in l945 were also dis
cussed.
The first pasture visited on this
tour consisted of 35 acres owned by
n. ]. Montgomery of Durant For
several years this pasture produced
carpet grass and little else for graz
ing but in l943, at the suggestion of
Mr.. r. J. Ross, Soil Conservationist
OF Holmes County, Mr. Montgomery
agreed to disk, harrow, fertilize and
seed Is acres Of this pasture An ap-
plication of $50 pounds Of superphos-
phate, 1000 pounds of limestone per
acre was applied and it was seeded
with IL pounds of dallis grass and
. pounds Of common lespedeza seed
per acre.
More livestock was graxed on this
pasture than II could carry profit
ably until June 10, 1914 when every
animal was taken off and sold. When
this was done. dallas grass sprung
up over the improved part, and il
was harvested the second time be-
fore the end Of the season.
The following Is the financial re.
suits Of this project: harvested, 160t
pounds of dallas grass seed. AID a,
80 cents per pound, $4,000; Is tons
OF hay saved behind the combine a,
$4,000 per ton, $4,000; AAA pay
ments, $l3400; Total $9l400, or $26.,
90 per acre.
-Four hundred pounds of carpe
grass seed was recovered wher
cleaning the dallis grass seed. Thi
seed has not been sold. It should b,
worth about $4,000.
In 1945 Mr.. Montgomery has ap
piled 1h tons of agricultural i'm
and SIS pounds of superphosphat
Der acre on this pasture.
A good crop of hop clover will b
ready for harvest in another wee
after which dallis grass seed harves
will be carried on as in 1914.
At the second stop study wa
made of the dairy herd, pasture
and feed practices carried on b
Mrs. T.. S. Humphries and her so
Maurie on their 248 acre Jerse
farm at Durant. The group obsery
ed an 8, ii and 38 acre pasture fene
ed separately and alternately graz
ed by 81 animals, or one animal pc
acre Limestone and phosphate wer