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%xpzvlzuc& Qzpitvtm&ut CATCH CROPS. Buckwheat is O. K. 1st Premium.—Small patches and pieces that were got ready for other crops but failed or were never planted can be readily utilized for catch crops and big returns can he hnd from these places where otherwise nothing but weeds would grow. For early feeding especially, if your corn supply is short (as with a large number of farmers iliis year), peas make a very good crop for early feeding of hogs. They should be sown early, in ground prepared as for oats. They can be either drilled or sowed broadcast. Some sow oats with them for support, but I would not advise this because I lie oats is generally a waste, for they will not be ripe as soon as the peas. You ran either turn your hogs upon the peas s.r you can mow them aud then rake them together and haul them up and feed in the lsog lot, but by having a fence around the patch a whole lsst of hard work can be s;.ved. It seems to me that more profit- si I.le returns can be gotten from free range ihan by doing the extra work, or this has always been my experience. In go- iiif; to the extra work you lose a great deal of feed and this cuts down your profits. If i.ot desired for hog feed the peas can be gathered and threshed out with a threshing machine, and sold at a good profit. If cut for this latter purpose, care should be taken that they do not have too much rainfall upon them or it will rot a good many. After the peas are off this ground can be utilized for still another purpose. Harrow it up well, then sow a few pounds of rupe seed, and In a short time this will make a good pasture for both your hogs and sheep until frost comes. It is excellent feed for hogs. Thus you get double returns for this small plot of ground. If your supply of hay is short for any reason, nothing makes a nicer, finer or better feed than Hungarian grass or millet. The former makes the better feed, because it is finer and not given to forming such woody stems as does millet. These can be sowu as early as May 1st, and up to •'I'ly 1st, for bay or pasture as desired. A vuluable Item in favor of millet is its availability as a feed in the winter time for cliickens, the seed being tbe part they so much relish and as an egg producer it has no rival. But in cutting either of these for hay care must be taken not to wait until it becomes too ripe, or it will be woody and not fit to feed to stock because of its '■■digestibility in this state. It is best cut just when it is in bloom. For bay it 'an be handled the same as timothy or clover, being careful to get it thoroughly <lry before putting it iu the barn. They will cure easily and make excellent feed for milch cows, causing them to give a •arger flow of milk. It is not the best feed for horses, but is excellent feed for Mieep. xhe grasses are not hard upon ''le soil. They leave it mellow and in fit ''•'idition for other crops to follow. A small patch of sunflowers as a crop is a Paying investment. Plant about the "fst of J„ne or a little later, cultivating •ne same as you would corn. When nPe cut off the heads nnd spread them in an outbuilding to dry. When they become dry enough to shell easily, take a ft stick in one hand and in the other Kr"p the sunflowers. By striking the See°9 eai> be removed. They should then be stored! away for winter feeding. This is one of the best feeds for the chickens when moulding that can be found, because of the great amount of oil the seeds contain. If you wish to feed without shell- cereal. I would advise every farmer to sssw a patch of buckwheat, even if you do not care to cut it. Turn it under. It (oaken as good a fertilizer as clover, ansl beneath the soil it forms the basis of a can be found. It grows quickly and can be pastured until nothing but the roots remain, and if you do not care to plow it under until the next spring for corn, it can be pastured again. For sheep there is no better pasture. There is a sufficient amount of nutriment in rye to produce proper growth. This is my favorite catch crop for pasture in the fall and spring. Then when turned down for corn in the spring it will bring a crop to be proud of, and that is saying a good deal; but then if you are a trifle egotistical once in a while it does good, even in growing a catch crop for soil fertility, etc. Experience, commonsense and hard, persevering work makes the general farmer a successful business man. H. Ia. Farm Home of Sam Reynolds, Hamilton County. Stock Barns on Mr. Reynolds' Farm. ing, all you need to do is cut the heads off the stalks and throw them out as desired. The stalks the next year con be utilized for kindling wood. If thoroughly dry, with a little kerosene oil placed on them, they cannot be beaten for starting fires, One of the greatest soil renovators, as well as an ideal catch crop, is the good old-fashioned buckwheat, the producer of so many good breakfasts and the best of country cheer. It will thrive on any kind of soil, the heaviest clay, or sand or muck. Among many of the farmers In this vicinity June 27 is regarded as "Buckwheat Day." The crop can be sown broad cast and harrowed in the ground. If you have a hive of bees it improves the value because you gain a number of pounds of honey from the blossoms. It should be cut as soon as ripe, placed iu little shocks and allowed to dry. If you have a large field, you can cut it with the binder. As soon as dry thresh it, either with a machine or by the flail, and clean it through the fanning mill. It commands a good price in the market, generally .SOc per bushel. You get the very best of profits from this crop. It yields well, is easily handled, and leaves the soil mellow and enriched, and no farmer can do better than by sowing a small field of this great good crop of any grain you care to plant. In tbe coru field which has been checked or marked so that the corn can be cultivated either way, it is never an advisable thing to replant corn where the bills are missing, because it never ripens with tbe other, but this is just the right kind of a place to plant the little white soup beans (or Navy beans, as so many know them.) After the 20th of June, the date when the bugs are so apt to infest them, take a hand corn planter and fix it so that it will drop from two to four beaus, and plant beans in every missing corn hill. They will be ripe at corn cutting time, and you can gather them as you go along and hang them ou the shock to dry. When done cutting oorn gather them immediately and put in the barn to dry. If you have a place over the barn floor they will dry very rapidly; Select a day when it is not cloudy, aud flail them out. Clean through a fanning mill. With a little picking over-they are ready for use or for market, where they readily bring two dollars a bushel. * Rye makes an ideal fall pasture, if sown about the middle of July or first of August. It can be sowed on land used for peas or early Hungarian grass. It makes the best all around pasture for fattening lambs that Many to Choose Prom 2d Premium.—Under the head of catch crops I would place cow peas, soy beans, millet, sorgum and sugar corn for feed for dairy purposes, and add rape for hogs and sheep. Auy of these crops may be planted any time from the first of June to the first of July, aad if there is anything like a good season they will make an abundance of pasture, or dry feed if wanted for winter use. The soil should be well pulverized and the ssied may be sowed broadcast or in drills with bone meal. When sowed in drills for pasture, or if wanted as hay, sorgum, millet, sugar corn, etc., are drilled with wheat drill, using all the hose. If wanted for fodder, aud the crop is to be cultivated, sow in drill rows about 2 or iy_ feet apart, aud cultivate same as a field eorn crop. Millet and rape are not cultivated. Soy beans and cow peas are best for feeding purposes when the pods are well filled and some of them turning yellow. They may be used as a hog pasture to good advantage at this stage, or may be cut down for hay for dairy cattle or horses at this stage. They will require more curing, or in other words more bright days to cure, than clover and other hay, and ■ if tbe season is wet this time it is difficult to make hay from them. Sugar corn is a fine feed for horses, cows aud cattle, and is used to best advantage when the corn is going out of the roasting ear stage. We generally feed all we raise when in this stage, or while the stalks are still green and juicy. We sometimes have some for fodder and have found it good as a dry roughage feed. Sorgum may be used any time, from the time it is two feet high or less till it is headed out and the seeds begin to ripen and the stalks to turn yellowish. When sugar corn or sorgum is drilled close for hay, the stalks are small and may be cut with a mowing machine aud cured like cow peas. It is best to mow before there is danger of frost, as the taste of the hay is impaired if frosted on even after it is cut, if it is not thoroughly cured. If it is cut and cured before frost comes, it is one of the best of feeds and may be stored away in the barn for winter use. If it has been drilled and cultivated, it should be cut up in shocks like field corn when stalks begin to turn. The sorgum heads or seed is a fine poultry feed and is also valuable as a ground feed mixed with bran. Millet should be cut for hay when the heads are all filled out and some are getting ripe. Some farmers would rather mow it earlier, just about the time the bloom is all off, but it is just a matter of choice, as many other things in the hay Continued on page 9.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1908, v. 63, no. 20 (May 16) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6320 |
Date of Original | 1908 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
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%xpzvlzuc& Qzpitvtm&ut
CATCH CROPS.
Buckwheat is O. K.
1st Premium.—Small patches and pieces
that were got ready for other crops but
failed or were never planted can be readily
utilized for catch crops and big returns can
he hnd from these places where otherwise
nothing but weeds would grow. For early
feeding especially, if your corn supply is
short (as with a large number of farmers
iliis year), peas make a very good crop for
early feeding of hogs. They should be
sown early, in ground prepared as for oats.
They can be either drilled or sowed broadcast. Some sow oats with them for support, but I would not advise this because
I lie oats is generally a waste, for they will
not be ripe as soon as the peas. You
ran either turn your hogs upon the peas
s.r you can mow them aud then rake them
together and haul them up and feed in the
lsog lot, but by having a fence around the
patch a whole lsst of hard work can be
s;.ved. It seems to me that more profit-
si I.le returns can be gotten from free range
ihan by doing the extra work, or this
has always been my experience. In go-
iiif; to the extra work you lose a great deal
of feed and this cuts down your profits. If
i.ot desired for hog feed the peas can be
gathered and threshed out with a threshing
machine, and sold at a good profit. If
cut for this latter purpose, care should
be taken that they do not have too much
rainfall upon them or it will rot a good
many.
After the peas are off this ground can
be utilized for still another purpose. Harrow it up well, then sow a few pounds of
rupe seed, and In a short time this will
make a good pasture for both your hogs
and sheep until frost comes. It is excellent feed for hogs. Thus you get double
returns for this small plot of ground.
If your supply of hay is short for any
reason, nothing makes a nicer, finer or better feed than Hungarian grass or millet.
The former makes the better feed, because
it is finer and not given to forming such
woody stems as does millet. These can
be sowu as early as May 1st, and up to
•'I'ly 1st, for bay or pasture as desired. A
vuluable Item in favor of millet is its availability as a feed in the winter time for
cliickens, the seed being tbe part they so
much relish and as an egg producer it has
no rival. But in cutting either of these
for hay care must be taken not to wait until it becomes too ripe, or it will be woody
and not fit to feed to stock because of its
'■■digestibility in this state. It is best
cut just when it is in bloom. For bay it
'an be handled the same as timothy or
clover, being careful to get it thoroughly
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