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IF IT J INERESTING TO 
SViember 

Eli Wiggins 
sy TWO NEW FACES appeared in 
the West Springfield headquarter’s 
staff during December. 
Eli Wiggins joined Information 
Service to devote his time principally 
to preparation of material for the 
Field Service manual and to promote 
its more aggressive use by fieldmen, 
warehouse workers and local repre- 
sentatives. Mr. Wiggins has been a 
fieldman in western Pennsylvania. 
Previous to this he was, for several 
yeats, supervisor of vocational agri- 
culture in Lawrence, Beaver and But- 
ler counties, Pennsylvania. He is a 
graduate of Bethany College, West 
Virginia, and also did graduate work 
in agriculture at Pennsylvania State 
College. 
J. D. Donnis has taken over duties 
as an assistant in the Farm Supply 
Services at West Springfield. Joe 
started his work as a local representa- 
tive, later served as a warehouse 
manager and became a fieldman in 
western Massachusetts in July, 1940. 
He attended Massachusetts State 
College. 
sx INTO THE MOVIES went East- 
ern States Member C. B. Musser and 

family and their farm of York, Penn- 
sylvania, when USDA recently pro- 
duced a film to highlight outstanding 
food production. As a sequel, The 
Gazette and Daily newspaper of York 
carried a full page of pictures and 
story on the Musser family opera- 
tions. It is understood that prints of 
the motion picture have been shown 
in Russia and China. The Mussers are 
just about 100 percent Eastern States 
in their cooperative purchase of farm 
supplies. 

J. D. Donnis 
yy BEST KNOWN METHOD of 
seeding smooth bromegrass is to mix 
10 pounds of seed with 50 or more 
pounds of oats per acre and distribute 
the mixture with a standard grain 
drill. Care must be taken to have the 
oats and the bromegrass covered with 
soil but not too deeply. Usually ad- 
justing the drill hoes or discs to run 
as lightly as possible and still have 
the seed covered is best. Also planting 
both the oats and the bromegrass as 
early in the spring as the ground is in 
good tilth is important. 
Good stands of bromegrass have 
been obtained from fall seedings but 
conditions are less likely to be favor- 
able for a quick start, and sufficient 
growth may not be made to success- 
fully withstand that first winter. 
Also there may be no good use at that 
time of year for oats or some other 
small grain, the seed of which is 
needed to carry the light bromegrass 
seed through the drill. 
Superphosphate may be used as a 
catrier in sowing bromegrass seed but 
requires more work in mixing than 
does oats. 
Some lots of bromegrass can be 
seeded satisfactorily with a cyclone 
seeder when the seed in the hopper is 
kept constantly stirred, but other lots 
are so light and winged that this pro- 
cedure is indeed difficult and uneven 
distribution may result. 
So to make your first seeding of 
bromegrass easy and successful, drill 
the seed in combination with oats 
early in the spring. 
A DRY PERIOD of six to eight 
weeks with five to 10 dollars’ worth 
of Eastern States Fitting Ration and 
Eastern States Calving Ration may in- 
crease the amount of milk produced 
by a good cow from 1000 to 3000 
pounds. Calving Ration is laxative, 
cooling and helps prevent inflamma- 
tion of the udder, supplies an abun- 
dance of easily assimilated calcium, 
quickly available sugar and increased 
quantities of vitamin A. When a cow 
calves with ease and has little or no 
congestion of the udder, you can get 
her back on full feed quickly, which 
helps keep the incidence of aceto- 
nemia to a minimum. 
sx TWO YEARS OF HAY ina four- 
year rotation is better than one, ac- 
cording to results of trials of the past 
seven years by the Ohio Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio. 
The following chart gives the pro- 
duction from three typical rotations: 
PRODUCTION OF 
Rotation IDI, FO TIBIN| 
Corn, oats, wheat and clover 270 2480 
Corn, soybeans for grain, wheat 
andiclovet ee eee 360 2560 
Corn, wheat, 2 years of alfalfa- 
clover-timothy meadow... 370 3080 
* Digestible Protein 
** Total Digestible Nutrients 
The soybeans were harvested with 
a combine and the haulm disked 
down for the wheat crop. 
The third rotation removed less 
nitrogen from the soil but more phos- 
phorus and potash than the other 
two. With such a rotation, mineral 
fertilization’ needs to be heavier to 
replace these heavier removals. 
