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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1909)
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The Home Paper t issue will prove a welcome visitor to should head your list of newspaper and We handle a complete line of Office Stationery A Full Line of School Supplies All of the latest MAflrA'T'IIMP can be r and most nonular lYlrvJrZI 11 dJ found 1 GET THE HABIT of purchasing your from us. New, fresh cigars, kept i fine, large humidor. Jobbers of Western View Post Cards and Prices ARE RIGHT in Enlarged Portraits In Every Style & & & ZtXXSfc tercst the home news. Its every every member of the family. It periodical subscriptions. 1 1 C31CD Pens, 9 found here in our We guarantee to duplicate any Clubbing Offer of any subscription agency I When a Plumber is Needed ; send for us. We have plenty of time now lo attend to all classes of work This is not our busy season and it will pay you to have your PLUMBING. HEATING, FITTING. etc., attended to now before the rush of work begins. We are thoroughly posted in our business and an order from you will promptly put all our knowledge and skill at your service. The cost will not he great. Fred Bre n na n Wm. James, Exclusive Dealer in COAL & ... WOOD 'Phone Alliance, No. 5. ISebrasIca. A. D. NEW AUCTIONEER ELLSWORTH, - NEBR. Col. New has had 25 years' experience and is one of the most successful auctioneers in the northwest. Dates made at this office Course In Modern Agriculture V. Leguminous Crops and Rotations By C. V. GREGORY, Agricultural "Di-Ol-tion. Iotva S'tate Called Copyright, 1009. by Amertcin PrcM Asioclitlon AMONG the important classes of crops ki'owii on the farm aro I tho IcRUtucfl. The ll Is to tho fnrnu'r whnt a stuck of goods Is to ii lnorclmnt. Ho cnunot keep! drawing on tt forever without putting something back. Ordinary crops take plant food from the store In tho soil. This must be replaced In hoiiio way. Legumes, on the other hand, leave the soil richer rather than poorer. If you will examine the roots of a clover plnnt carefully you will notice numerous little swellings about tho size of pin heads or a little larger. These aro called nodule and arc tho home of certain bacteria. These bnc tcrla nro minute one celled plants, no small that thousands of them cun hung on tho point of n pin. We shall study some of the different ehisses of line terln in detail later. The ones that live on the roots of IcgunicM have tho power of cliaiiKlnpr the nitrogen of the air Into n form In which It can he used by the plnuts. When clover stubble Is plowed under tho nitrogen which Is contained In tho stems and roots Is added to the soil and enn be used by the following rrop. Where the soil Is badly lacking In nitrogen and humus It sometimes pays to plow tinder the entire crop of clover. Tho nitrogen which leguminous plants add to the soli Is by no means the only benefit which comes from their use. Nearly nil of them hnvo n long taproot, which forces Its way down Into the soli far below the depth reached by the roots of ordinary crops. Alfalfa roots sometimes go down as deep as thirty feet or more. Much of the plant food used by the crop Is brought up from this lower layer of soil, and some of It Is left In the upper soil when the roots and stubble decay. The passage of tho long roots through the soil also loosens It, mill when they decay add to tho humus supply. Thus the physical condition of the soil Is bo Improved, that the more tender roots of such crops ns corn cnu penetrate it readily. Because of these facts corn, potatoes and nlmost any other crop will grow faster and give a con siderably larger yield on a Hold which has grown a legume the year previous. The principal legumes are alfalfa, clover, cowpens and soy beans. Al falfa Is grown most successfully west of the Missouri river, although by no means confined entirely to that local ity. It requires some enro to got u good stand of alfalfa, It does best on a soil that Is somewhat sandy and should never be sown on a soil where the water table Is liable to stand for any length of time within three feet from the surface. "Wet feet" will kill alfalfa quicker than anything else. As n general rule the best thne to bow alfalfa Is early In the fall. Tho ground should be put In the best pos sible tilth, and If manured before sow ing the seed the chances of success nro considerably Increased. The seed should be sown nt the rate of about fifteen pounds per acre. A light har rowing will cover It sufficiently. If the young plants weather the first winter successfully, the critical time Is past. The advantages of nlfalfn over clover aro Its higher feeding value and greater yields. It can often be cut three or four times In a season, with n yield of from one to two tons per cutting. Alfalfa must always be cut as soon as about one-tenth of tho plants are In bloom; otherwlso tho vitality Is weakened and the yield of the succeeding crops reduced. There nro several varieties of clover, of which medium red Is the most wide- ttNcmorRori TW pntvcHia ) -pot V1Q. X EIG1IT-MONTH3-OLU AI.rALFA FliANTS. N'ote the long taproots and the nodules. ly known. Clover seed are usually sown with small grain In the spring. A surer way of obtaining a stand Is to sow after tho oats hnvo been disked In and cover with u harrow; othorwjso tho seed are put In so deeply that many of tho little plants never reach the, sur fnco. Oho of the principal reasons for fail ure with clovor Is poor seed. A snm plo should always be tested bofore sowing. This can be easily done by putting a hundred seeds between a couple of moist blotters and keeping In oj" modules f jll n warm plnco for n few days. Tho number that germinate can bo used ns a guide ns to the amount of seed to use per acre. One renson why clover and alfalfa aro not more popular with fanners Is tho dllllculty or curing tho hay. If It Is left In tho swath until dry enough to put lit the mow, tho lenves, which aro the most valuable part, will become so brittle that many of them will bo lost A better way Is to go over the field with 11 side delivery rake as soon as tho lea vox have wilted a little and throw tho hay together In loose wind rows. Handled in this way, it dries ovonly, and the leaves will not fall off so easily. Hay cured In this way Is also less liable to bo dusty than when cured by direct exposure to the sun. Ouco In awhile, even with tho best of care, somo of tho hay will bo cnught In a rnln. A hard rain on clover or al falfa hay washes out much of tho nu triment which It coulnlns. Such liny Is hnrdly worth putting In the barn, but may be made good use of for bed ding. In this way It Is mixed with the manure, and the plant food which It contains Is returned to tho soil. Cowpens and soy beans tire to the southern part of tho United States what clover and alfalfa nro to tho northern sections. Thoy nro grown more as hay and forago than for tho grain. These legumes nro also used in some sections of the corn belt as catch crops. If sown on early fall plowing, thoy prevent tho soil from wnslilng and thus losing much of Its avnllablo plant food. Thoy may be pastured off (MS?L.z -'1 "" uors- - v.T-r . ?f I'M. XI CITTINO A HEAVY aitOWTIT OF AM'ALFA. later or disked up In the spring. They are often sown In cornfields during tho Inst cultivation to keep the weeds down mid to add nitrogen to the soil. rsoeiiuse of tho fact that other crops make m much better growth nftcr the field has grown a leguino for a year or so It Is important that a crop of clover or some other legume be grown occa sionally. If a plan of rotation is ar ranged so that the fields are regularly changed from one crop to another, so much the better. It bus been found that when any crop Is grown year aft er year on the same land the yields will grow less. The particular kinds of food that n certain crop requires grows scarcer, and weeds and Insects become more numerous. If another kind of plant Is substituted, other elements of plant food will be drawn upon, tho In sects will bo stnrved out andthechung ed methods of soil I rent incut will dis courage the weeds. Plants vary grcntly In their ability to get fond from the soil. Such crops as ryo mid buckwheat are strong feeders and are able lo obtain food from n soil on which more tender plants would starve. Some plants use much more humus than othors. Crops, like corn that are cultivated frequently deplete the humus supply rapidly, since the constant stirring of the soil hastens de cay. Oats, on the other hand, take comparatively Uttlo humus from the soil. These differences may be Inrgely equalized by n consistent system of ro tation. In planning rotations the aim should be to so distribute tho crops that they will be best adapted to the condition in which the soil was left by the preceding crop. Tho starting point of every rotation should be clover or some other legume. The length of time that n field should be left In to such a crop depends largely on local condi tions. In tho east, whore nlfulfa seetl Is high mid the dllllculties of obtaining a stand great, It Is usually wise not to plow up the crop for three or four years. Itetl clover lives only two years; lienco If not plowed up the second year the land must bo reseeded. In most cases two years Is as long us the land should be left to any one crop. Since clover Is grown with small grain the first year, this means only one year In which It will be the solo crop. If tho second crop of clover Is to bo plowed under, as Is the case when the soil Is considerably lacklug In humus, this work had better be done In the fall, so that the mnss of green clover may have tliuo to decay boforo the following crop Is planted. If tho soil has been properly cared for, however, this green manuring will be unnecessary. As n geuernl rule it Is more profitable to feed the liny or grass to stock and return tho manure to tho land. In this way from 60 to 00 per cent as much plant food Is added us would lmve beon If the crop had been plowed under, and nt tho same time tho stock has had the bene fit of tho extra feed. When only thu stubble Is to be turned under, tho plowing may be done either In lots fall cr airly prloar. . I Miss M. Ruth Taylor TEACHER OP PIANO 416 Niobrara Ave. Phone 381 DR. G, W. MITCHELL, fliyxlclnn ano Snrgeon ' Day and night clli Olliccovcr Horuo Utoro. Phone ISO. H. A. COPSEY, M. D. 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