The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-05-16

annual fdTm fOul
Made on Thursday
The annual Holmes County Farm
Tour which was combined with the
northern part of Madison and Yazoo
counties last Thursday was partici-
pated in by 80 farmers, businessmen
and agricultural workers.
The first stop was made on Messrs.
c. v. and Hoover MaxwelPs farm
a short distance east of Pickens
where their pasture and beef cattle
programs were studied. One OF five
pastures is broken up in August OF
each year and 500 pounds of 20 per-
cent superphosphate applied per
acre after which three bushels of
oats per acre are sown in Septem-
Der. After grazing this crop through
the winter, 200 pounds of nitrate
fertilizer per acre is used in top
dressing the oats the last of Febru-
airy.
Twenty-Five pounds per acre of
lespedeza seed is sown on this crop.
The oats are combined in May yield
ing usually about 40 bushels per
acre. After the crop is harvested the
cattle are permitted to Craze the
lespedeza.
Three or four pounds of white
Dutch clover seed per acre is sown
in the fall. Dalis grass and hop
clover along with bermuda grass
just comes up naturally. An appli-
cation of / to 2tons of lime is put
on this land once every 5 or 6
years.
The ITO acre pasture visited has
sufficient grass and clovers to carry
go to 70 two-year-old kieifefs. These
are selected from his calves before
selling to be used for future brood
cows. These heifers are fed 3 pounds
of CSM pellets per day over period
of months. The only roughage is
dead grasses found in the pasture.
Wintering cost is $3.50 per animal
Another pasture on this farm was
visited where native cows are graz
ed. They are bred to Angus bublls.
The cows winter themselves on wild
winter peas which werep lanted 3
or 4 years ago and come up volun-
tarily every year thereby furnishing
grazing through the winter. They
are then ppermitted tot mature seed.
The sed are usually harvested and
either sold or sown on some other
part of the farm. Last year 5000
pounds were sold. During the hot
dry months of August and early Sep
TENDER, a rs acre Kudzu pasture is
available to this herd. This is called
the temporary pasture. Hoover
claims that this is the most profit
able cattle pproject they have. Calves
are sold ever fall if cow fails to
breed at the proper time of the year,
she is sold and another purchased.
A horn floy control demonstra-
ton was given by Hoover Maxwell
and A. P. Carroll. While this work
was in progress, N. S. Estes, County
Agent of Madison county, explained
that ninety cent Bottle of Is per-
cent DOT mixed with 6 gallons of
water is sufficient to spray 80 head
of cattle. The benefits to livestock
by keeping flies off of them, was
brought out in the discussion.
Une stop was made on Mr.. Tom
Simpsons fa~ where he had
thinned acres of pine timber by
cutting pulpwood, according to rec
lamentations of forester. The prac-
tice studied is known as selective
cutting. In other words, the timber
was too thick and the trees not
needed were sold for pulpwood, at
$3.50 per unit. Twenty units per acre
were sold which gave the owner
$4,000 per acre and left Is units
standing to do better job of grow
ing into saw logs than would have
been possible otherwise. Valuing
the Is units still standing at $3.50
each, per acre value of $3.50 was
left. This timber yielded $3.l7 per
acre on the average for rs years.
1t is a pity that we do not have
more people in Mississippi that
have the respect for pine timber
that Mr.. Simpson has. This discus
sion was led by Mr.. E. N. Cooper,
Extension Forester at Yazoo Clay.
The stop at Mr.. Walter Billings
LEAFS farm in Madison county was
also a pasture and beef cattle pro-
duction project Mr.. Billingslea is
using on this pasture lime, phos-
phate and white Dutch, common
and hop clovers along with dallis
and bermuda grasses. Some ex-
cellent comparisons were seen on
this 200 acre pasture where lime
and phosphate, lime alone and
where no lime was applied. White
Dutch clover was sown on all OF
these treated plots and it did not
grow where the minerals were left
off. Scarcely none was growing
where only lime was applied, but
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