Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 May 1949 — Page 9

o Farm Topics Continued from Reverse Side county home economics president, will preside at the meeting.

Malabar Farm, owned by Louie Bromfield, will be visited Friday, May 20 by county agents, assistant agents and personnel of the Soil Conservation Service. This tour is being arranged by Jay Gould, WOWO Farm Service Director. :

PURDUE MUCK FARM WEED KILLING DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY, MAY 21

A demonstration of the use of various weed killers on muck crops will be held at the Purdue Muck Farm, Walkerton, Indiana on Saturday, May 21. The group is asked to assemble at 1 o’clock central time or 2 o’clock fast time.

There will be over 150 plots of onion treatments, twelve different weed killers on peppermint and latest information by Kent Ellis on use of 2,4-D on potatoes. Mr. Ollie Lee will be present to discuss use of 2,4-D in pasture, fence rows, etc. Anyone wanting transportation should contact the County Agent’s office in Albion by 9:00 a.m. Saturday, May 21, D.S.T.

- HEAVIEST GAINS RESULT FROM DEFERRED GRAIZING

Deferred summer grazing increased beef production 46 per cent over season-long grazing on fertilized permanent pasture in Purdue grazing trials. Dr. G. O. Mott, agronomist in charge of the trials, points out that deferred grazing looks promising for beef production. Results are based on preliminary tests, however. Permanent pastures used in the experiment were typical of much

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permanent pasture in Indiana. The two pastures studied were largely bluegrass. However, both received 300 pounds of 0-20-10 fertilizer and 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate during 1948, when the experiment was conducted. One pasture was grazed under a rotation grazing system from May 20 to October 7, a period of 140 days. _The other pasture was grazed from May 20 to July 15, and again from September 9 to October 7. During the rest period, the grass was allowed to grow and accumulate.

The pasture grazed under the deferred grazing plan A produced 346 pounds of beef to the acre. The second pasture grazed:under the all-season, ,rotation grazing plan produced only 237 pounds of beef to the acre. This was 109 pounds less beef to the acre than what the deferred plan produced. This emphasizes the importance of grazing bluegrass pastures when they are most productive and resting the bluegrass when it is dormant during the summer, Mott said. : Dr. W, M. Beeson and W. M. McVep of the animal husbandry department at Purdue assisted with the study, selecting the comparable groups of cattle. - !

The Purdue men cautioned that these grazing results were obtained after only one year’s experimentation. But the results are a strong indication as to what wll probably be true over a long period of time. The tests will be continued during 1949 and 1950 according to present plans.

HOOSIER SCOUTS TO LEARN ABOUT CONSERVATION Hoosier boy scouts who attend summer camps throughout the state are going to have an opportunity to learn something about Conservation, officials of the Indi-

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ana Department of Conservation revealed this week.

At a recent meeting of Boy Scout executives, district fire wardens, foresters and members of the educational division of the Conservation Department, arrangements were made to educate the scouts in fire prevention, tree and wildlife identification.

The meeting at Clifty Inn, Clifty Falls State Park, was set up by Gunn Smith, boy scout executive of Madison, and dates were scheduled for summer camps in the Brazil, Vincennes, Evansville, New Albany and Madison areas.

- This is the sixth year such training has been given by the Conservation Department to scout groups. Field work during the day and films and lectures during the evenings will make up the

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the fire prevention program and Milt Wysong of the Educational Division will conduct the lectures and show movies on conservation.