Pasture Program for 



Southern Illinois 



"A year 'round pasture system that will 

 make money for southern Illinois live- 

 stock farmers," is the way Roy Burrus, 

 Morgan county livestock and seed grower, 

 describes his three year pasture rotation. 



Roy has three fields. Number One is 

 seeded in the fall to lespedeza and winter 

 barley. The barley is harvested in June. 

 The lespiedeza is pastured from June 

 until October when it reseeds itself. 



From field Number One, the stock is 

 moved to Number Two, a spring and fall 

 pasture. Number Two is seeded to winter 

 barley in the summer and is pastured 

 from October to December. 



From field Number Two, the livestock 

 is moved to field Number Three, a per- 

 manent winter pasture of lespedeza and 

 timothy. Animals on this forage are fed 

 grain in addition to pasture. In April 

 the livestock is returned to Number Two 

 to finish off the winter barley. Animals 

 are kept in Two until June when they are 

 switched to Number One to pasture off 

 the lespedeza after the barley has been 

 threshed. 



Illinois Grain Meet 



(Continued from page 17) 



dividends on that business was |11,- 

 204.12. 



"Your company has available and 

 extends to its members a service in 

 obtaining bonds for managers and of- 

 ficers, as well as bonds for grain stor- 

 age. Your company is well financed 

 and in a healthy condition. No dif- 

 ficulty has been had in obtaining 

 through credit channels, such loans as 

 have been necessary during peak move- 

 ments of grain. Our relations with 

 the Boards of Trade where we are 

 qualified and with banks where our 

 accounts are kept, are cordial and sat- 

 isfactory." 



Number Two is disced in • June and 

 seeded to soybeans which are cut for hay. 

 As soon as the hay crop is harvested, 

 winter barley is sown for pasturing from 

 October to December. 



"Nice thing about the plan is that 

 no plowing is necessary. Disking is the 

 only tillage operation," Burrus said. 

 "Then, too, each field grows a legume 

 crop each year. There is always a crop 

 covering the soil which reduces erosion 

 to a minimum. It can be used to advant- 

 age on rolling land. The main expense 

 is for seed." 



The plan has worked successfully in 

 Missouri where it was perfected by the 

 ag college at Columbia. While it is not 

 adaptable to central and northern Illinois 

 where the growing season is shorter, it 

 is possible that a similar system, using 

 different crops, has been worked out. 



Editor's Note: If you know of a work- 

 able pasture plan of this tyjje for central 

 Illinois farms, communicate with the Soil 

 Improvement Department of the lAA, 

 608 S. Dearborn, Chicago. 



LIMESTONE MADE 

 NINE 



Soybeans cut for leed 

 on E. W. Doubet's Peoria 

 county ionn grew on 

 rather thin, white 

 ground. Part of the field 

 was limed writh four toiu 

 per acre. Yield on the 

 limed area: 24 bushels. 

 On the unlimed: IS 

 bushels. 



§12.00 LAND 



How Otto Whitaker of Bond county, 

 with 35 Jerseys produced $350 worth 

 of milk per month on $12 pasture 

 land was revealed during a pasture 

 tour led by Farm Adviser Green. 



Thirty acres of the cheap land were 

 treated with three tons of limestone 

 in 1937 and seeded with three pounds 

 each of timothy and red top in the 

 fall, six pounds of each sweet clover 

 and lespedeza were seeded on the same 

 ground in the spring of 1938 plus 225 

 pounds of super phosphate. Thirty- 

 five head of Jersey milk cows were 

 turned in this field on March 15th this 

 year, had abundant pasture all spring 

 and produced about $350 worth of 

 milk per month. Prof. C. S. Rhode 

 estimated at least $200 of the milk was 



NOTICE 

 ILLINOIS AGRICDLTUBAL 



ASSOCIAnON 

 ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with tlie annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to be held 

 during the months of November and 

 December, 1939, at the hour and 

 place to be determined by the Board 

 of Directors of each respective Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, the members in 

 good standing of such County 

 Farm Bureau, and who are also 

 qualified voting members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, shall elect 

 a delegate or delegates to represent 

 such members of Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and vote on all matters 

 before the next annual meeting or 

 any special meeting of the Associa- 

 tion, including the election of officers 

 and directors, as provided for in the 

 By-Laws of the Association. 



During NOVEMBER, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in Bond, Brown. 

 Clay, Clinton. Gallatin. Henry. Law- 

 rence. Logan. Macoupin. Mad-lson. 

 Marion, Schuyler. Shelby. SL Clair, 

 Wanen and Williamson Counties. 



During DECEMBER, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in Bureau. Clark. 

 Coles. Cook. Crawford. DuPage. Ed- 

 wards. Effingham. Franklin-Hamilton. 

 Iroquois. lackson-Perry. Jasper. Jef- 

 ferson. Jersey. Johnson. Kane, Kan- 

 kakee. La Salle. Lee, Livingston. Mc- 

 Lean. Massac. Morgan. Moultrie. 

 Piatt. Pope-Hardin. Randolph, Rich- 

 land. Saline, Stephenson, Tazewell, 

 Union. Vermilion and Wabash Coun- 

 ties. 



Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary 

 Dated at Chicago, 111. 

 October 19, 1939 



produced from the pasture alone. 



Mr. Whitaker had previously been 

 renting this sour thin land for $1.00 

 per acre but he couldn't make any 

 money on it and had told the land- 

 lord he was going to giy it up. The 

 landlord then tried to sell it to him 

 and Mr. Whitaker finally bought the 

 land for $12.00 per acre in 1936. His 

 soil treatment and seeding added an- 

 other $12.00 f>er acre to his land in- 

 vestment, but now he has a profitable 

 pasture and is steadily building up 

 the soil fertility. 



Pasture grasses and legumes seem to taste 

 better to livestock on phosphated fields ac- 

 cording to Farm Adviser J. H. Brock of Mc- 

 Henry County. Farm operators report that 

 where treble super-phosphate had been ap- 

 plied, stock pastured almost continuously on 

 phosphated areas and shunned the untreated 

 portions. 



Legumes are soil robbers if they are not 



inoculated. They are soil builders if pro- 

 perly inoculated. Inoculation costs just a 

 tew cents per acre and it takes just a few 

 minutes. A good commercial culture is the 

 best source of inoculants. 



Grazing animals prefer grass that grows 



on fertile soil. 



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