■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Forage Notes 
Reseeding Old Pasture 
What is a good grass seed mixturo to 
sow for hay for cows, and the amount of 
eacdi that I should sow to an acre? I 
have a small pasture of about four acres 
which I wish to imi)rove. What can I 
sow on it? AA'ould Sweet clover do if I 
seeded it in early Spring? There is June 
grass and some AVhite clover there now. 
but I would like to make it pasture all 
it is possible. E. G. ii. 
It rook field. Vt. 
At the present prices for grass and 
clover seed I would sow oats, instead, 
and cut the crop for hay. If it is thought 
best to seed to permanent grass, a mix¬ 
ture of five pounds of either Alsike or 
Red clover, and 10 each of Timothy and 
Red Toj). will be very satisfactory for 
an acre, if sown alone, and it is in¬ 
tended to cut a crcp of hay dui'iug the 
same season. If sown with a nurse crop 
of grain, half that quantity will answer. 
'Phis is on the assumption that double- 
cleaned Red-toj) is used, a.ud that the 
soil is .a good meadow loam, suitable for 
corn or potatoes. If very wet, increase 
tlie Re<l-top at the expense of the Tim¬ 
othy. and if extremely dry, increase the 
'Pimoth.v at the expense of the Tted-top. 
Also, if unhulled R<‘d-toi> is used, add 
fbmble the (piantity of seed. 
'Phere is no kind of grass seed that can 
bi‘ s<iwn on an old jiasture that will be 
worth the time reipiircd to sow it. if the 
field is to be pastured during the first 
season. Nor will the sowing of seed on 
a grass sod amount to much under any 
circumstances. If any succeed in germi¬ 
nating. the grass root.s and foliage wnll 
smother the plants, and if any escape this 
fat<'. the .stock will tramp them out of the 
ground, or bite them off before the roots 
luive gained sufficient strength to throw 
u)i a new greovth. The best treatment 
for a run-down p.asture, other than plow¬ 
ing and re-seeding it. is to ai)ply 100 
jionnd.s of nitrat^ of soda, *200 of dried 
blood, and .'KWf of cottonseed meal, to¬ 
gether with an almost unlimited quantity 
of wood ashes, i^pread this early in the 
Spring, and tiie nitrate of .soda will be¬ 
come immediately available, and. when 
its effects have passed, the dried blood 
will be ready for use. and later the cot¬ 
tonseed meal will furnish a source of 
nitrogen, while the ashes W'ill not only 
furnish potash, hut will bring clover from 
some unknown source. Phosphorus stimu¬ 
lates seed production, and hence is not 
needed to any great extent in a pas¬ 
ture. C. o. 0. 
Forage Crops for Swine 
•J.oOO pounds of live weight, 25 pigs 
weighing 100 pounds, provided it is sup¬ 
plemented with a 2 or .‘I per cent grain 
mixture of 10 parts corn, four parts oats 
or middlings and one part digester tank¬ 
age. Self-feeders may be utilized with 
market hogs, yet it is clearly evident that 
this system of feeding does not make the 
most economical use of the forage crops. 
I would suggest that two acres of this 
mixture be seeded, and that the other two 
acres be jdanted with corn and Soy beans. 
Mix the corn and beans in the proportion 
of five parts of corn and two parts of 
Soy b('ans, and drill in the corn planter 
rather generously. Permit both crops to 
mature and turn the pigs into the field 
when the corn is nicely past its glazing 
stage. 'The pigs will nibble awa.v at the 
peas first; liiter bi-eak down and clean 
up the corn. 'Tankage placed in a self- 
feeder should be accessible, likewise an 
abundance of good drinking water. The 
pigs should h<“ grown largely on the 
forage and fattened in the corn field. 
The squealers will giither the corn as 
economicall.v and as efficiently as the 
average man available for such woi'k. 
Pigs weighing about 125 pounds make the 
best corn gatherers, and they should be 
marketed when weighing about 200 
ixiunds. It surely will not pay to fatten 
them much above this weight. 'The 
butchers do n<d want heav.v hogs, and 
furthermore gains cost more when put on 
mature .‘inimals. A mixture of ecpial 
parts of salt, bone meal and sulphur 
should be accessible at all times to oust 
the parasites. 'The pigs .should be dipped 
or coated with crude oil twm or three 
times during the sea.son to eliminate lo.s.s 
from lice and vermin. 
It is a pig's business to eat, sleep and 
gain in weight. It is the owner’s busi- 
ne.ss to see that he is fed well and gener¬ 
ously sujiplied with forage. AVith such 
conditions present the pig will prove an 
economical agency for the converting of 
farm products into edible meat. 'The in- 
(|nirer might be interested in Rulletin 
No. 1. distributed by the l)e])artment of 
Agriculture at 'rrenton. which may be 
hjid for the asking. 'The jiigs ma.v be 
saf(d.v pastured ii: the orchard provided 
the.v are fed a sufficient amount of grain 
to satisfy them and kee]i them from root¬ 
ing around or )»eeling the young trees, 
h'ats art' scarct* ai:d will be much higher 
in price. Every farmer ought to in¬ 
crease—yes. double -the number of pigs 
raised during the next few years. 
FUKUKHinC L. jriXKLER. 
I have iibout four acres of sandy loam 
land that was in .sod, and was pastured 
for 10 years, plowed and itlanted to corn, 
then potatoes, and then corn again. Roth 
crops of corn were good, potatoes poor. 
I had thought of devoting this ground to 
hogs next Summer, with fttrage crojts and 
some jiurchased feed. There is nothing 
on ground at })resent except corn stubble. 
AVhat would be the (piickest forage I 
<<nild start in the Spring, what crops to 
follow in succession, and wdiat proportion 
of land to each croj)? Land is fairly 
), 0 (.<i. There is a never-failing stream 
<vu it and orchard of one-half acre join¬ 
ing. TIow many hogs should I undertake 
to k(M'p, starting with shotes weighing 
.50 to 00 )»ounds? Would I dare risk 
l art of it to corn again, to finish them 
on, with no stable manure to i)ut on the 
ground? What grade and amount of fer- 
tiliz<*r wtiuld you recommend for the dif¬ 
ferent crops you may suggest? c. e. m. 
Lan.sdow’ne, Pa. 
(’. E. M. will find the following mix¬ 
ture useful as a forage for sw’ine: Per 
acre—30 lbs. oats, ,30 Ib.s. Canada field 
pea.s, 4 lbs. Dwarf Essex rape, T» lbs. 
Red or Sweet clover. Mix the oats and 
peas and st-ed early in the Spring, as 
soon as the ground may be prepared to 
advantage. A grain drill will do the 
best job with the oats and peas, while 
either a wheelbarrow seeder or pi-ess drill 
will serve best for seeding the rape and 
clover. Roth may be broadcast or seeded 
by hand if necessary. It is difficult to 
“spread” four pounds of rape seed over 
Jin acre, hence the mixture with clover. 
The forage mixture will be ready for 
use in about six weeks, or when the 
Plants are from eight to 10 inches in 
height. A fertilizer mixture,as follows 
may be applied at the time of seeding: 
per acre, 100 lbs. aeid phosphate. 100 
lbs. bone meal. .50 lbs. nitrate fif soda. 
One acre of this forage will maintain 
The wife of ii Ilian who had enlisted in 
the nav.v handi-d the pastor of a cit.v 
church the following note : “Peter Rowers 
having gone to sea. his wife desire.s the 
prayers of the congri'gatiou for his safe¬ 
ty.” 'The minister glanced over it hur¬ 
riedly and announced: “Peter Rowers, 
having gone to see his wife, desires the 
pi’ayers of the congregation for his 
safety,”—Credit Lost. 
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