The Bulletin. 19 



Rape and clover sown in October or November make good spring 

 i;,razing crops. 



For Slimmer grazing red clover is one of the best, if not the best, 

 crops to grow. 



Soja beans and sorghum sown broadcast, at the rate of 60 pounds 

 of beans and 10 pounds sorghum seed per acre, make good grazing 

 for both summer and fall. 



In the red clay soils of this section of the State gi'azing crops are 

 better suited for hog-raising than root crops, as it will materially 

 injure the soil to have it rooted by hogs if at all wet. A V-shaped 

 notch in the noses of the hogs will prevent rooting to a large extent. 

 This method of preventing rooting has given better satisfaction with 

 us than rings, and the notch is best cut when the pigs are around 

 two months old. 



ALFALFA. 



Our experience with alfalfa has not been very encouraging on 

 this farm. In 1903 about one acre of land was well prepared, 

 fertilized and seeded and inoculated with soil from an old alfalfa 

 field. The growth was not satisfactory, so in 1904 this area and an 

 additional one was thoroughly prepared, subsoiled, limed, given a 

 good dressing of stable manure and fertilizer and seeded. A good 

 stand was obtained but the weeds and grass got the better of it dur- 

 ing the summer months of July, August and September, when al- 

 falfa makes very little growth. 



GENERAL CROPS AND ROTATIONS. 



During the eight years the farm has been operated the general crops 

 have more than met the expenses of their production and their share 

 of the cost of operating the farm. The general farming has been done 

 at a considerable net profit and at the same time the land has at least 

 doubled in productiveness, and a considerable portion of it is produc- 

 ing three and four times what it did at first. Cotton has been found 

 a profitable crop on the farm, and for the first seven years a three-year 

 rotation of corn, grain and peas was followed. One serious difficulty in 

 this rotation was to get peas on the stubble land after grain had been 

 harvested. Labor is scarce at this time of the year. There is a large 

 amount of other work to be done on the farm and frequently it is 

 impossible in dry seasons to plow the land so as to get in peas. In 

 addition to these the pea crops does not make a large growth after 

 grain, unless the rainfall is favorable and the fall is late. 



Spring-sown red clover on fall-seeded gi-ain will nearly always 

 make a good catch and produce a good crop, there being a good 

 cutting the first year and an excellent crop of hay the second and 

 a second growth for seed or turning under for the improvement of 

 the soil. In addition to being surer than peas, after the land is 



