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TIMOTHY AND CLOVER. 
Timothy and clover are the main hay crops at present, and both 
do well in good seasons. The humus content of the soil is very low 
on some farms, and where such is the case it is difficult to get a good 
growth of clover. However, clover does well where the soils are 
kept in good condition by a proper system of crop rotation and 
pasturing. For greater assurance of a crop of hay most farmers 
make it a practice to plant both timothy and clover in seeding 
meadows. 
ALFALFA, SOY BEANS, AND COWPEAS. 
A very limited area was planted to alfalfa, soy beans, and cow- 
peas. A few operators were found raising a few acres of alfalfa with 
moderate success on the better grades of soil. If the known pre- 
cautions against acidity are taken and the soil inoculated, the area 
can be profitably increased. In establishing alfalfa liberal application 
of stable manure has been found necessary on most of the farms. 
Soy beans were also grown by a few of the farmers from whom records 
were obtained, usually a limited area in corn for silage, and in two 
or three instances as a separate hay crop. The acreage of this crop 
could well be increased, both for the purposes just mentioned and 
also as a grazing crop for hogs. Cowpeas do well, and make an 
excellent hay. They could be sown to advantage with the sorghum 
and millet hay, and the quality of the hay would be greatly improved 
without materially decreasing the tonnage. Certainly, more legumi- 
nous crops should be raised, both because of their soil-building powers 
and also to afford additional feed for stock. The price of concen- 
trates, cotton-seed meal, bran, linseed meal, etc., is extremely high, 
and many of the operators have abandoned feeding them. Unless 
satisfactory substitutes are used, this can not be done without 
suffering a loss both in milk production and in growth of stock, and 
also a loss of returns from the other feeds, fed. With an abundant 
supply of leguminous hays, clover, alfalfa, soy bean, or cowpea, a 
satisfactory balanced ration can be provided by feeding them in 
conjunction with sorghum or corn silage, or other hays with some 
corn. 
KAFIR, MILLET, AND SORGHUM FOR HAY. 
Most of the farms studied had an acreage of sorghum, kafir corn, 
or millet, as an auxiliary hay crop, because the droughts at times 
almost entirely ruin the meadow hay crop. In view of the drought- 
resistmg qualities of the sorghums, they undoubtedly wall receive 
much consideration in the future cropping systems of this area. 
Sudan grass is also worthy of consideration in the arrangement of 
profitable cropping systems in this area. Where such a practice 
has been adopted the farmers have available for other purposes a 
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