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Thursday, May 1, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page FW« Notes From The County Agent's Office By C. B. CANNON, County Agent ■ ' Home Grown Feed For Dairy Herd \ Robert A. Harris, Rt. 2, Gray Court, produces his entire supply of dairy feed from his farm. He has approximately 400 acres of fer tilized acres for grazing and 40 acres of Sericea for grazing and hay production. With the dry year last year, Mr. Harris carried his herd through the year on home grown feed. He ieeds silage, hay and grazing from pasture asy his roughage. The grain ration is a mixture of cottonseed meal, small 1 grain and corn and cob meal mix ture. The cottonseed produced on the farm is exchanged for cotton seed meal to mix with small grain and corn produced on his farm. Mr. Harris is now milking ap proximately 135 head of cattle and shipping daily to Greenville ap proximately 250 gallons of milk. He also has approximately 135 head of dry cattle, heifers and young calves. He is now preparing land for planting to corn, both for silage and ear corn. He will irrigate approxi mately 35 acres of bottomland com to produce the farm’s requirement of ear com. Also his tenants will have about six acres of com on shares, but not irrigated, that will be grown for the ear. For his silage corn, Mr. Harris will plant approximately 53 acres but does not plan to irrigate these New IShowDown" way gives the true facts about why the BIG 92 . t ■ • ’ MK ... outvalues them aff for roominess, comfort, safety, dependability! A y COOPER MOTOR CO. West Main Street Clinton, S. C. acres. He has already purchased a new forage harvester machine to harvest his com for silage in the field, thereby reducing the costly and hard to obtain man labor. He is a big believer in silage for his cattle and feeds it whenever need- ea to supplement his pastures or hay supply. He has under con struction now a trench silo that will hold approximately 150 tons of silage which will be in addition Mr. Harris follows the calf vac- to his other silos constructed some years ago. cination system in his herd for the prevention of Brucellosis (Bangs) disease. He has joined the state pasture contest and also the 100 state corn contest. He has been in the com contest for the past two years, pro ducing 126.5 bushels of com on an acre in 1950, and 108.3 bushels on an acre in 1951. T. Pluss and D. Eugene Brown, Rt. 2, Laurens, and Rufus Lang ston, Gray Court, Rt. 2, also have joined the State Pasture Contest. First state prize is $650. The sec ond prize is $300. First district prize is $200, second district prize $100 and third district prize $50. Application blanks may be secured at the County Agent’s office by those who wish to join. Manley Says Grazing Pays While in the Youngs community observing pasture program on the farm of Robert A. Harris last week, the writer observed also good graz ing on the farm of J. T. Manley. Mr. Manley has 8 acres seeded last fall to a mixture of Crimson clover, oats, barley, rye grass and rye on which he is grazing 25 milk cows, three heifers and six calves. The cattle began grazing on the eight acres November 1 and have been kept on the grazing approxi mately 50 per cent of the time since they were first turned on, and ro tated to another eight acres. The mixture was fertilized at seeding time with 400 pounds of a 3-9-9 fertilizer and top dressed with 150 pounds of ammonium nitrate I acre in late winter. Mr. Manley is; shipping approximately 65 gallons of milk daily to Greenville from 25 cows. Red Top Weed Sign of Acid Soil At this season of the year many fields and pasture lands show the presence of a red colored weed known as shotfp^sfcrrel or red top. Other weedy such as daisy, devil’s paintbrush and broomsage indi cates acid lands where they grow. -When sufficient lime is added to the soil, these weeds in most case* will almost completely disappear. We need not expect the best re turns from fertilizer applied to crops or pastures as long as the land shows high acid test. Pasture grasses and legumes produce con siderable more growth on lands properly limed. Bermuda grass when fertilized and limed accord ing to recommended practices con tains i.9 per cent more protein than alfalfa hay. Unless and until farmers begin to lime and fertilize bermuda grass, summer pastures to afford grazing until killing frost, we will never be successful with our winter graz ing program, simply because farm ers will turn cattle on the supposed winter grazing before winter comes due to the summer grass grazed out before frost comes. This sort of oyer-grazing will prevent the win ter grazing from ever getting a start. Bermuda pasture should receive now, if fertilizer has not been ap plied this spring, from 400 to 500 pounds of a 3-12-12 fertilizer per acre broadcast and top dressed with ' nitrogen to the extent that will cause sufficient amount of grazing. Let this past minter short grazing supply be a reminder early this spring the importance of fer tilizing summer pasture lands. Pas ture grasses need lime and cattle grazing can show you where lime is applied by the way thpy graze on the treated area. Tax Refund On Tractor Gak Farmers are reminded that gas used in farm tractors are rebated to those farmers who file proper blanks with the South Carolina Tax Commision in Columbia. A large number of farmers are pow using farm tractors, replacing mules and the gas refund tax on gasoline is worth considering. Plan For Fanners Week The annual Farmers week will be held at Clemson college during the week of August 11-16, and it’s not too early to begin making plans to attend this educational and recre ational week. Don Anderson Heads College Religious Group Don Anderson of Rome, Ga„ is the new president of the Presby terian College student Christian as sociation. He w r as named to the leadership of the religious organization in a recent campus election succeeding Joe Dodd, also of Rome. Anderson is a rising senior and currently serves as editor of The Blue Stock ing, student weekly newspaper. Tommy Sheriff of Orangeburg w’as elected SC A vice-president; Jimmy Stevenson of Abbeville, sec retary; and Ray Smith of McClel- lanville, treasurer. The Student Christian Associa tion is affiliated with the world wide YMCA movement and is in charge of all religious activities sponsored on the campus. 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