GRAINS AND FORAGE CROPS 49 



have formed seed which will be ripe enough to germinate when dried 

 with the hay and dropped to the ground as the hay is gathered up. 

 Dodder can be prevented from blooming and seeding by pasturing 

 close all summer. Another way to kill it off is by burning before the 

 seed ripens. This is sometimes done by spreading straw and burning, 

 but it is easier on a small patch to go over it with a plumber's gasoline 

 torch, burning all you can see of it. If blooming is prevented the 

 dodder will disappear. It does not spread from field to field in any 

 mysterious way, by wind, etc. Never allow animals to pasture clean 

 alfalfa after grazing doddered fields. 



Second Growth of Corn. 



// Indian corn is sown broadcast and cut for fodder when about 

 tivo feet high, will new shoots start up from the roots, the same as 

 Kaffir corn? I have water to irrigate. 



If the plant is still green and vigorous when two feet high there 

 will be second growth, but not such a free second growth usually as 

 you get from a sorghum. 



Alfalfa and Com. 



What is the best crop sown in the fall to plow under in spring? The 

 ground has been in alfalfa about five years and pastured most all the 

 time, so there is no alfalfa left. I wish to try corn on it next year and 

 seed back to alfalfa. 



You can get most winter growth with rye and pasture it down 

 somewhat before plowing under in March. Then disk or cultivate to 

 clear the land and hold moisture for the corn which will be planted 

 after frost danger is over. Be sure to plow in the stuff early, for much 

 of the success of the corn will depend upon that. 



Soy Beans. 



How shall I get a crop of Soy beans; how many pounds to the acre 

 to plant, and when is the right time? Do hogs take to the beans readily? 

 Will the plants when green make good green manure turned under; 

 also what is the feed valuation of the beans? 



Plant about thirty pounds to the acre, dropping about two inches 

 apart in drills two and a half feet apart, after frost-danger has passed, 

 and cultivate as you would other beans. The crop should be cut 

 before the pods fly open and cured or siloed or hogged off; for this 

 use the crop may be dropped in the hills with corn. Hogs eat them 

 readily though they may have to learn it, and the bean forage has the 

 same character as alfalfa, but slightly less in degree. They are good 

 for green manure, according to the amount of growth you get. 



No Sod on Dry Lands. 



// you have a book on reseeding worn out pasture lands for cattle, 

 zvill you kindly mention it? 



