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A Weedless Hay Crop for Next Year 
(i Continued from page 83) 
in at all. This is highly important, and 
yet almost invariably neglected. Notice 
in your former fields how much better the 
baby grass plants throve in wheel and 
team tracks, unless washed under by 
rains. 
It is an agrarian crime to plow or even 
deeply harrow just before seeding. Very 
thorough tillage there must be (beginning 
with plowing, if grass follow grass or 
grain other than corn) followed by many 
harrowings, each more shallow than the 
preceding, until, just before seeding 
(using Acme or Meeker) it is not deeper 
than two inches. We must not turn up 
ungerminated weed-seed now, to grow in 
our grass crop. 
It is wholesale infanticide to seed these 
tiny plants into even the richest, warmest 
land that is still loose from deep tillage or 
filled with hollow's and littered with lumps 
or elevations, where they will be washed 
out, drowmed or buried alive by millions 
the first hard rain! 
Clark’s Method 
Clark’s method of grading has never 
been improved upon, nor his simple, life- 
lasting tool for this purpose. One horse 
and one man once over an acre in 20 
minutes! Then repeat by going cross¬ 
wise, and it is done. Better allow one 
hour though, giving some extra attention 
to corners, edges and any old ridge or 
hollows, charging $1 to'costs, and mowing, 
on account of this one operation, not 
less than 1000 pounds more hay every 
year because your field is as level as a 
floor. 
For food our little ones need the 
nursing-bottle, not corned beef and 
cabbage. That is, the necessary organic 
manures should have been applied to 
previous crops. We never use w'eedy, 
hay-seedy manures at seed time. Espe¬ 
cially where grass follows grass (that is, 
with hay as a permanent money crop), 
where we mow in June, fallow in July and 
August, and reseed anew, any yard 
manure that can be spared should be top- 
dressed on before the last mowing. 
Plowed in and well fallowed turf furnishes 
an enormous amount of organic plant- 
food, in the best possible form for the 
new grass—provided the fallowing is well 
done. 
For the newly germinated grass plant, 
use a few hundred pounds of the best 
chemicals, mixed with an equal amount 
of fine bone if obtainable, all to be applied 
at the time of seeding—right on top, and 
thus yery shallowly harrowed in. If 
either lime, limestone, or phosphorous in 
any separate form are used, these should 
of course have been earlier and more 
deeply incorporated with the soil; and 
except in short rotations, a generous 
supply of these should be so included. 
But for the first growth, considered by 
itself 600 pounds of 4-8-6 is ideal, the 
nitrate to be part chemical and part 
organic. 
Or Yard Manure 
Notwithstanding all this, if farm- 
produced manure of any kind and'properly 
prepared, is available at this time of year, 
it is equally good, though not better—as 
is still popularly believed. Properly pre¬ 
pared means composted always, with the 
single exception of well pulverized hen 
manure. Green manure is both unavail¬ 
able and usually carries many foul seeds, 
besides being mechanically too coarse or 
lumpy. It must be black, fine and well 
mixed, for it must also go on the very last 
thing—right on top, to be fine-harrowed 
in with the seed. 
And when you have thus ’ provided 
plenty of the best of everything you can 
procure, then use at least twice as much 
seed as most people apply, sowing it 
twice too, half one way and half crosswise. 
Even so, these four harrowings (direct, 
crosswise and both diagonals, one horse 
and one boy) require but 90 minutes per 
acre, and like other points of thorough¬ 
ness are a most excellent investment, 
insuring perfectly even distribution both 
of seed and plant-food. 
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{Continued from page 89) 
that the fall cows are slacking off. I am glad 
to hear that we have another association in the 
county, and shall look forward to the first 
honor-roll report from this new association. 
Monroe Agent, Gerard Schmidt 
April brings out several high records. The 
best one is Virgil Peck’s purebred Holstein. 
She made 95.7 pounds of fat and 2175 pounds 
of milk on two milkings daily; a real farmers 
cow. Geo. True has three high ones on three 
milkings daily. One of 94.2 pounds of fat and 
2691 pounds milk. Another over 80 pounds 
fat and the third over 70 pounds. His seven 
cows averaged over 51 pounds milk and 1.86 
pounds fat daily. W. E. Janes also has a 
Brown Swiss with over 70 pounds of fat on two 
milkings daily. 
Boonville Agent, H. L. Stahlman 
During the past month, 422 cows were 
tested, 332 of which were milking and 90 were 
dry. There are 68 cows on the honor roll. I 
find there are 12 milking machines owned by 
members of the association. Five of these are 
are not being used. There are seven different 
kinds of machines represented. Eight mem¬ 
bers are feeding ready mixed dairy rations and 
eight members are mixing their own rations. 
The following herds produced 1000 pounds 
milk per milking cow for the month: 
Donald H. Douglass, 1324 pounds milk, 41.2 
pounds fat. 
Leo A. Kotary, 1280 pounds milk, 10.1 
pounds fat. 
Wm. Casbaker, 1180 pounds milk, 38.2 
pounds fat. 
Chas. H. Lemon, 1056 pounds milk, 35.9 
pounds fat. 
J. & E. J. Karlan, 1022 pounds milk, 33.9 
pounds fat. 
Dryden Agent, W. A. Boyd 
Poor cows sold, 7. Good cows purchased,! 
Most members are feeding balanced rations 
with about 22% protein as silage is very lo ff 
and of poorer quality than former years. 
members had total of 41 cows milking. 
Average pounds of milk per cow, 753 pounds. 
“ butter-fat “ 28 
Average test 3.7 per cent. 
