102 Progressive Agriculture 



a dry, hot year. This field was very carefully 

 summer tilled up to June twentieth, then the seed 

 listed in rows three feet and four inches followed 

 by careful cultivation. The entire 40-acre crop 

 was put into two large silos and figured up 8^ 

 tons of ensilage per acre, fully double the amount 

 ever grown before on this ranch even in good years. 

 One near by field did not produce one-sixth of the 

 amount of feed. It was planted only about three 

 weeks earlier but on land not early disked. 



When such crops of number one cane hay can 

 be grown in a drouthy year like 1914, as are 

 shown in Cuts No. 3 and 44, and a few fields in 

 1913, with the numerous marked yields in 1915, 

 the question of good feed for stock in ample quan- 

 tities need not worry any one if he will adopt 

 the plan outlined. Just what this means to the 

 semi-humid country may be more fully realized 

 when we call to mind the fact that a number of 

 farmers were so short of feed some seasons within 

 the past seven, that they were obliged to sell a 

 part of their stock for the want of feed to take 

 them through, and one season especially any 

 ordinary quality of hay brought $20.00 per ton. 

 then to realize that such crops of cane hay as 

 are shown in Cuts 3 and 44, could have been grown 

 just the same that year as in 1914, and the crop 

 would have been worth $100.00 per acre. Is there 

 any real value in knowing that this can be done 

 and how to do it? 



