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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1950
Page
13
Green legume grazing cuts feed costs and improves pig health but can injure light colored hogs on wet alfalfa or crimson clover. Skin reddening and roughness resembling sunburn and even ear loss may occur around the head and shoulders. Shade helps reduce danger. move pigs off grazing briefly if issues appear.
County Agent L. T. Wagnon outlines ten ways winter and spring crops can boost Morgan County farm income. Green grazing crops provide livestock products, spread marketing over the year, cut feed costs, reduce labor, improve soils, and support a profitable seed industry as demand for high quality meat milk and eggs rises.
An Alabama rate-of-lime study across 11 locations shows two to three tons per acre on heavy acid soils and one to two tons on creek-bottom soils best boost clover and grass growth. Lime neutralizes acids, improves organic matter decay, supplies calcium, and increases fertilizer efficiency, with forage gains averaging 63 percent and some over 100 percent.
High oat yields for grain depend on planting the right variety. Red rustproof oats such as Red Rustproof 14 Nortex Delta Red Camellia and Alber resist rust better across Alabama, with Camellia recommended where disease pressure is high. Helminthosporium blight harms young oats and may kill plants, suggesting mixing early oats with another winter crop for grazing.
Alfalfa, the leading hay and grazing crop, is now grown on most well drained soils in Morgan County. The Agricultural Experiment Station offers planting timing guidance and soil preparation tips including lime and fertilizer rates. Recommendations include two tons of lime, 500–600 pounds of super phosphate, 200–400 pounds of muriate of potash, and 15–20 pounds of borax per acre, with adjustments for acidic soils.
Morgan County farmers are urged to consider Ladino clover for permanent pastures. The plant, praised by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, excels on moist fertile soils with organic matter and even on slopes with clay loam if well drained. County Agent L. T. Wagnon notes its strong forage quality and grazing recovery.
Morgan County farmers face a problem: how to extract cash income from land not in cotton. J. C. Lowery suggests pasture and corn for livestock as best uses, with green grazing in winter to expand usable land and improve it. The goal is to utilize all productive acres including row crops pasture and forest.
Poultry farmers discover that permitting large hen flocks to graze destroys ground vegetation. A fix is to cut and feed about five pounds of a green crop to every 100 hens daily, with results produced quickly.
Tests by the A P L Agricultural Experiment Station show winter legumes such as vetch and Austrian peas respond strongly to phosphates. Superphosphate and basic slag outperform rock phosphate and collodial phosphate across Tennessee Valley Belle Mina and Wiregrass trials, with higher green material yields per acre.
The article notes that with sufficient green feed, a common lawn mower can harvest enough fodder to feed several hundred hens, illustrating an efficient rural feeding method.
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