American Agriculturist, June 14, 1924 
Questions About Crops 
Rape for Hog Pasture-Summer Silage 
Will you kindly tell me what time of year to sow rape 
for hogs and how much to sow per acre? What other 
crops will make good pasturage for growing hogs.—N. 
A. S., New York. 
DAPE may be sown any time even as 
* early as March, using anywhere 
from four to eight pounds in broadcasting 
or two to four pounds per acre if it is 
planted in the drill row. These drill rows 
vary from 10 to 18 inches apart. How¬ 
ever, this is rather an elaborate way to 
handle this crop. It is more economical 
and practical to broadcast rape on top 
of your plowed ground following after 
with a disk harrow which will sufficiently 
cover the seed. Rape is wonderful pasture 
crop for hogs. 
Oats and Canada field peas make 
pretty good pastures but these are more 
limited as to season. For a permanent 
pasture there is nothing like alfalfa. In 
your section of Wayne County it should 
be a rather easy proposition to get a small 
bit of.alfalfa pasture started. Of course 
you will have to lime your land and it will 
be better to buy scarified seed of northern 
grown origin. But once you have a good 
alfalfa pasture started it is a wonderful 
asset. 
Rye for Summer Silage 
We have some rye sown last autumn. It is now 
heading. Will it keep if put in silo and when should it 
be cut?—M. S. C., Pennsylvania. 
\/OU may use rye for summer silage 
* providing your silo equipment is 
properly designed. Rye spoils rather 
quickly in the form of silage and there¬ 
fore it is necessary to feed more than 
two inches a day. If your silo is of such 
diameter that it will be necessary to take 
more than a two-inch layer for a single 
feeding, you are perfectly safe. 
Rye is cut just as the grain kernels are 
in the milk stage. It is run through a 
silage cutter. Unusual care should be 
exercised in tramping the mass down to 
exclude or force out as much matter as 
possible. The stems are hollow and tend 
to hold air and therefore these must be 
smashed down. 
At the Kentucky Experiment Station 
it has been found that rye silage was 
relished by cows and that it was not 
injurious to the flavor of milk if fed several 
hours before milking. In other words it is 
better to feed it just after milking is over. 
At the Vermont Station, it is the ex¬ 
perience of the cattle feeders that rye 
silage was somewhat dryer and not rel¬ 
ished as much by the cows in comparison 
with corn silage. At this station it was 
found that when the cows were changed 
from corn to rye silage, they shrank in 
milk. When they went back on corn 
they gained part of this shrinkage. 
in soil that has never grown tobacco 
before. 
No doubt you have already planted 
your crop but you may still help some by 
spraying, starting when the first leaves 
are the size of a finger nail with a 4-4-50 
solution of Bordeaux mixture, the same 
treatment being repeated every week 
before being transplanted in the field. 
The New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture has an excellent bulletin on this 
subject, which is free on request. Ask 
for Bulletin 329. 
New York Vegetable Growers to 
Hold Long Island Meeting 
r I ''HE New York State Vegetable 
A Growers’ Association will hold its 
first summer meeting in Nassau County, 
Long Island, July 14-15. The vegetable 
growers expect to reach New York 
Sunday, July 13, and visit the early 
morning market on Monday. The train 
will then be taken to Mineola, where 
H. C. Odell, farm bureau agent for 
Nassau County, has arranged a fine 
program. A visit will be paid to the State 
School of Agriculture at Farmingdale 
where 'Director Knapp will welcome the 
visiting vegetable growers. 
Secretary Townsend announces that 
prominent vegetable growers from as far 
West as Buffalo have already arranged 
to make the trip to the Long Island 
section. The county grange is also co¬ 
operating with the farm bureau in order 
to make the meeting a success.—T. H. T. 
Chemical for Destroying Canada 
Thistle 
Will you kindly tell me what chemicals are used in 
destroying Canada thistles?—M. S. M., New York. 
YYNE of the most approved chemicals 
^ of the present time is copper 
sulphate or bluestone. This is used at the 
rate of 12 pounds in 52 gallons of water 
or 1 pound to 4 X gallons. This is 
sprayed on the foliage of the Canada 
thistle. Of course, the best method is to 
take them out, root and all, but where 
the infestation is heavy it is usually 
better to spray. 
How to Treat Tobacco Seed for 
Wildfire 
I have heard about treating tobacco seed to kill wildfire. 
Will you give me a brief description of how this is done?— 
J. J. G. 
HPOBACCO wildfire lives through the 
winter on the seeds and unless the 
grower is not sure that his seed comes 
from disease-free parts it is better that 
they be treated. The process is as 
follows: 
Make up a solution of corrosive sub¬ 
limate 1-1000 (in the proportion of one 
ounce of corrosive sublimate in 10 gallons 
of water) in a clean glass or wooden 
vessel. The liquid should be twice the 
volume of the seed to be treated. 
The seed is placed in a cloth bag and 
immersed in the liquid for 15 minutes, 
the liquid being stirred occasionally. 
At the end of this period the seed is 
removed and washed thoroughly in clean 
water and spread out thinly to dry. The 
seed may be dried in the direct rays of 
the sun without injury. It must be 
sown following the treatment before 
sprouting takes place. When the seed 
has been thus treated, do not recon- 
taminate it by putting it back in an old 
seed bag. The seed should be planted 
Mississippi Beginnings 
{Continued from page 556) 
the only real original Americans. The majority 
of them profess Christianity—Protestant in 
the south and Catholic.on the St. Regis reserva¬ 
tion in the north—but there still remain a 
considerable number who are “pagan” and 
who retain the tribal rites and ceremonies. 
The legal status of Poor Lo is peculiar. He 
is the ward of the State but he is not a citizen. 
He does not own his land as an individual but 
the tribe hold it as “tenants in common.” 
They may lease their land but may not sell it 
or alienate it. These leases may be given, 
however, for very long periods. So the city of 
Salamanca stands on leased Indian lands. The 
reservation is crossed by three important rail¬ 
roads, the main line of the Erie traversing it 
from end to end while the eastern end has a 
splendid concrete highway. The Indian is not 
subject to taxes or military duties, although 
they furnished many volunteers to the Great 
War. It is said that they assert themselves 
to be an independent nation—literally “an 
empire within an empire.” 
The State surely deals liberally with the 
Indian. Whether we deal wisely with him is 
another matter. We have set aside for his use 
forever lands which are on the whole of ex¬ 
cellent quality and which are ample for his 
agricultural needs. Moreover, we have treated 
him like an irresponsible child and have fixed 
things so that he may not sell or squander his 
heritage. We have relieved him of all responsi¬ 
bility and together with the federal government 
have given him just about enough of money 
and cloth to kill any impulse toward self help 
or independence. I repeat that we may have 
been liberal but we have not been wise. His 
best friends say that the tribal relationship 
ought to be broken up, the protecting hand of 
the State withdrawn and then full citizenship 
accorded him as he desired and became worthy 
of it. At best he is a strange, pathetic figure 
in a State where once he was master. 
Golden 
Princess 
Judith, Junior 
2-year old 
Jersey 
557 
Produced 
10,073 lbs. of 
milk and 638.77 
lbs. of butter- 
fat in 305 days 
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