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Spring Brings Again the Old Problems 
(Continued from page 391) 
to produce milk for a market that has 
become badly glutted, and where they 
have so little to say about the selling end 
of the business, is more than I can under¬ 
stand. And I think some producers will 
agree that I am pretty near correct. 
Much can and will be accomplished 
though in the way of organization, but 
this can not take care of the situation in 
its entirety. The matter of so much sur¬ 
plus milk to market can best be overcome 
by keeping smaller dairies and feeding, 
mostly home-grown feeds which should be 
done by every dairyman. 
Cooperation and good management will 
bring results in correcting present un¬ 
stable conditions.— Charles I/. Stiles, 
New York. 
His Job Raising Soy Beans 
a soil builder, and a food crop com¬ 
bination, I have nothing on the 
farm that pays so well as cow-peas. I 
began raising cow-peas about ten years 
ago, first planting only a half-bushel, upon 
the advice of a friend, on a small patch of 
ground that had failed to yield to barn¬ 
yard manure or clover. This particular 
piece of ground was small, but was so sit¬ 
uated in the center of a field that I be¬ 
came determined to make it yield. I 
planted the peas when I was preparing 
to plow the corn the last time in July, 
broadcasting them and cultivating them 
under. The next spring, the ground was 
loose and mellow and yielding more than 
any land in size upon the farm. 
Since that time I plant the peas with 
the corn, with a planter attachment. In 
the fall, I turn the young pigs into the 
field, where they live without any other 
food until snow comes. Then I open the 
field to cattle and horses, but cattle espe¬ 
cially, and consider that cow-peas have 
made more money for me than any other 
crop I have ever raised.— Charles D. 
Gooch, Ohio. 
A Rotation That Pays 
I N my practice of dairy farming I find 
the following rotation very satisfactory 
and has proven the most profitable for my 
farm and its condition. The rotation is 
worked out on a four-year plan of corn, 
oats and hay two years with a few acres 
of potatoes thrust in w r here most conve¬ 
nient. 
From twelve to fifteen acres are planted 
to corn most of which is put in the silo. 
This is fed principally to the dairy cows, 
the milk being shipped to New York. 
The manure from the dairy barn is hauled 
and spread during the winter on sod land 
intended for next year’s crop. As soon as 
the corn is planted usually from May 20 
to June 1, the potato ground is plowed, 
fitted and planted to potatoes. They are 
dug in late September or early October 
and sold direct from the field. This year 
the price received was 90 cents a bushel 
and the average yield was 150 bushels per 
acre. This was without the use of com¬ 
mercial fertilizers. The fertilizer being 
dependent on barnyard manure entirely. 
Potatoes on this farm are considered the 
best paying crop of them all. They are 
plowed out with a side hill plow as the 
land is rather steep for a digger and 
hooked out with potato hooks. Most 
farmers dread potato raising on account 
of the hard work but I find, for labor in¬ 
vested and large cash return, it is an 
A No. 1 crop to raise.— Peter Wiley, Jr., 
New York. 
Another Benefit from Alfalfa 
ALFALFA may now be regarded as a 
promoter of dairying and a destroyer 
of the Canada thistle. A. L. Bierbower 
of Cumberland County, Pa., proved that 
thistle infected land when heavily seeded 
to alfalfa, will subdue and exterminate the 
pernicious pest. After two or three years, 
you will have a wonderful stand of 
legumes (alfalfa) and no more trouble with 
thistles. Other farmers met with similar 
gratifving results by following this treat¬ 
ment. — O liver D. Schock, Pennsyl¬ 
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