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Barley growing: s recommende

By D.K. SMITH P.E.1. Dept. of Agriculture More consideration should be

irenent there are about 18,000 |

acres of barley. produced on/? ‘Prince Edward Island. Although | this might seem like a large ac- |

reage, many Island farmers

and other grain crops.

be less and better use will be made of the land. There are sev- eral reasons why the barley ac- rage has increased. Animals

could be producing more barley © ;

By producing all of our home i ge ‘lgrown feed, the feed costs will; ~

fa alen necessary that the Melds be well limed. A soil test should be taken to determine _ proper lime and fertilizer rates. As a general rule, approximately 400- ‘500 ‘pounds of 6-12-12 fertilizer

Should be applied per acre. Spraying for weeds is also

cog Important. ;

Z The recommended _ varieties include Herta and Charlottetown 80. The Herta variety is relative- » ly new compared with Charlot- | 4 \tetown 80. It is- generally higher | 4 yielding has a

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a town 8&0. 4\TEST SEED eee |

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{grain samples have to be sent to - Ottawa, this should he done im-

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. mediately and you are asked to

‘Jean digest and use a larger per- |

: oats or mixed grain. The tota’

centage of the barley than either |

digestible nutrients of oats is |

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one Maclsaac stands on the feed ough at his father’s - feedlot~ at Mermaid, as some 40 steers enjoy a noon-time meal. These steers; ‘nd fifty others, were fed through the late fall and the winter and early spring on a ration of corn silage to - which chicken-titter—was ‘added for

- its protein content, along with sev- eral other ingredients.. Alan is a-son

of Mr. and Mrs, Leo P. Mclsaac:

The estimated feed cost for the ° steers shown here was 32 cents per

day.aThe animals were sold a few

days after the picture was taken.

feedlot production in” his own! province. He urged that corn

about 70 per cent. This is main- ly due to the fact that oat ker- nels have 25 to 30 per cent hull as compared to approximately 12 per cent hull in barley. ; Acreage yields for the last three years in Prince Edward Island shows that barley produ- ced more pounds of TDN than oats.

In order to produce the number of pounds of TDN

same per

~jacre-from~ oats,;~as~is~been~pro-

duced from. barley, the yields would have te be increased con- siderably.

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\ley should be seeded as ‘soon as

jthe land is ready. A thumb rule jis that for each day seeding is

-|delayed, the crop will decrease |

\by about one bushel per acre.

Seed treatment is very i : ; he ey xe ry por mination of 75 per cent an d q

30_ weed |

‘tant and costs—only—about 25 jcents. per acre. .

ISOME POINTERS—

|be cleaned up to at least Canada

contact the Department of Agri- culture for the address, costs) and amounts of seed to send. | \Your home grown seed should |

INo. 1.

It is important that good seed \be used— seed with a known

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Sermination percentage and aj

minimum number of weed seed. \Canada No. 1 seed for example has a minimum germination of 85 per cent and maximum num- ber of ‘15 weed seeds per pound. \Canada No. 2 has minimum ger-

stock plants are gffeen br one cooperating Nurseryman further propagation. Elite stock is obtained each year from the

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plantings. Here again a disease |disease-free plants can not be

re . and insect control program is over-emphasized, following this ntal Farm. ans P P : 8

Raperiin a followed. : a spray or dust program to keep

This elite stock is grown under — Field inspections are made hy them. disease-free will undoubt-

isolation of at- least ‘from other’ strawberry ‘ings. A rigid disease and insect control program is followed. The resulting stock is called. Founda- tién Stock and is sold the follow- ing year to a limited number of) Cooperating Commercial!

shorter and serymen arranged for by 4\stronger straw than Charlotte- | P.E.1, Department ef Agricul:

ture. ‘

>) If home grown grain. is to be (must obtain Foundation -\used or sold for seed—it~-should-each year, This stock is grown “ibe tested for germination and under isolation of at least 500 _ purity. Due to the fact that the feet

3,000 feet representatives of both Depart. edly pay dividends,

ments of Agriculture and upon) These plants may be obtained approval hy the inspectors a/from the following nurserymen certificate is issued to the. grow- Louis Jenkins—Lower Montague er who is also supplied with/Parker Jewell—York

tags issued by the P. E. I. De- George Wright—Sherwood partment of Agriculfure stating) The following varieties are that the plants to which the tags eee siles are attached.were grown AC- | Mid-Season eas 'edrding to specifications and are adier, Acadia known as Improved Stock Straw- 7 ate Sparkle.

berry Plants. These plants may, be in short DISEASE-FREE PLANTS _ ..- |supply—so order them now and ‘The importance of planting increase both quality and yields!. sskereersrunpsmmncrcunsupat iia aba

KEEP THAT » TRACTOR _ RUNNING

plant

Nur- the

Redcoat, Gren-

Nurseryimen stock

Commercial

from other strawherr v

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|maximum number iseeds.-The best seed is Canada Registered No. 1 and No. 2 then

iby using better cropping prac- |

For example, a 70 bushel oat} Well drained land is the~ first Canada Certified No. 1 and No. crop-is necessary to equal the consideration when selecting a 2. Then just-plain Canada No.1} feed value of a 45 bushel barley {field for barley. It must. be well,and No. 2. | crop. ; cultivated. Barley should not be In each class of seed the ger- The average yield of Prince grown two years in succession mination rates are— guaranteed | Edward Island barley ‘is about in the same field because of the minimum of 85 and 75 per cent | 43 bushels per acre. This yield |danger of root rot and the barley but total weed seeds will range | per acre can be increased easily |joint worm. all the way from three to 50 per, | The ‘successful growing of bar- pound and total other seeds from tices. ley “will depend on the proper 0 te 150 per pound. Sow nothing } Early seeding-te-e—must. Bar- |fertility. To obtain high yields less than Canada No. 1.

silage is so good that no other feed compares with it." It will produce twice as much beef per acre,” he said, “as any other crop you can grow on yeur farm."

There are several methods of Mer- feeding corn silage that are new.

Corn silo feedlots interest expanding

A combination of steer feedlots farm of Leo P. MclIsaac, afid corn silos appear to be a maid, not far from Charlotte-: One is to mix with it a quantity development of the immediate town. He is the president of the jof chicken litter that will bring future. The present feeling cer- P.E.I. Beef Producers Associa- -the protein content up to the re- tainly points that way with deep tion that has been sparking ef- quired concentration. The other interest stirred- early this year-forts~ toward: more and—-better- iste mix urea-with the silage: by an. Ontario man speaking jquality production, and more re-'| Mr. MeclIsaac has been using here, revealing itself in enquir-|cently towards more effective the chicken litter— it’s available fes-as-to-cost and availability of marketing. -from_his- ‘own ——laying-house--—-. necessary construction materials| The Ontario man, George Mor- through the winter months. He severa! weeks later. ‘tis, Merlin came here with the has got really good results. He -One corn silo-steer feed lot ar-\authoritative background of his has fed 90 head of steers throu- gh the winter months at an av-

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_}last_ December. He had been us-|breaks it: down.into.protein,|infection. 9 program the Genetics

| Valley—there..are .many..large

|ment, Urea, will virtually elim-

not a protein in itself, though it

erage cost of 32 cents per és he reports, and that includes an| estimated cost of the corn silage

with the supplementary feed | Use improved stock added to balance it. ~ : : strawberry plants

MISS LITTER Chicken litter seems like a

messy, unpalatable sort of thing | By J.D. KILPATRICK to feed livestock, but the anim-| Are you satisfied with als eat it regularly. Mr. Mcls-|strawberry plants you are aac,;-and- others who have: tried it, report the animals’ miss it if it should be left out of a feeding. once they have become accus- tomed to eating it as a part of |are infected with virus diseases. |vincial Departments of Agricul- the ration. —————__|Not all virus diseases can be ture. This-program was started Jack Johnson, supervisor of|/seen— in fact, most of them /fo assure a supply of high aual- CBC farm broadcasts at Halifax | ; : ity disease- free strawberry spoke to. the beef producers here |go to work on it,and this action plants with a minimum of virus

|show no symptoms at ali— ex- | the cept reduced yields. ire now; Why not use Improved Stock growing?. Do: you find that your; Strawberry Plants? These | yields keep falling off, year aft-|plants are produced under a er year? Your problem may be |program which has been deve-

ing it on his own feed lot, he said, with most satisfactory re- a 3 i So- much of the chicken litter is being fed in the Annapolis

along with several other mater-| In this ials. ; , .jand Plant Breeding Research See pe ‘lInstitute at Ottawa maintains a CUD CHEWERS ONLY supply of virus-free plants, as

This only happens’ when the /determined by indexing. Each urea is fed to an animal _that | spring . the -Experimental_Farm- chews its cud. It is of no use, tojpeceives a number of these other livestock for that reason. | plants which are grown in fumi-

There is urgent warning,” it| gated soil in a screen house. In was explained. And this was em-) addition to being grown in a phasized, strongly by Dr. D.W.G.’ screen house further insect con- MacAskill, Cyanimid of Canada trol is attempted by a complete ‘Ltd. of Toronto in his talk to thé qusting program. = 8

poultry. establishments there— that one farmer said he had to drive 35 miles to get a load, be- cause virtually all that is avail- able was being fed to cattle in the area. ; The farmers there have been

due to the fact that your plants /loped by the Federal and Pro- |}

feeding the litter since May, he said— he was talking on the eve- ning of December 6. “I know} farmers,”’ he said, ‘‘who haven't fed a bale of hay to their cattle since they were taken off pas- ture in late August.’’ The unus- ually dry summer season of 1965 made. pastures deteriorate rap- idly, which would account for. the early removal of cattle.

But knowledgeable eattlemen, including Mr. MclIsaac, told this paper earlier this-month that the benefits of a new protein supple-

P.E.I. Beef Producers Associa-| The following year these elite tion here. ware a

It is:an unmistakeaply urgent] 3 rac warning that is vitally import-| ant to anyone using urea as a livestock . feed protein supple- ment. Unless the urea is mixed . evenly into the feed —20 pounds = will balance a ton of corn— it . can be very dangerous and can (poison the animals that eat if, it |~ was explained. -, If the powerful urea ‘s not evenly distributed there !s dan- ger of too much of it being con- centrated in one smal! area, s0 that it can.be eaten in almost pure form “by the animats—And- ‘an produce >. DOS sibly death. se

This warning was sounded, tt was explained, for the benefit of those who may be thinking of purchasing urea, and hand mix- ing it into the feed. There is no danger when the urea {s proper- ly. mixed, it was. emphasized. But improper mixing is just ask- ing for trouble, it was emphas- ized even more strongly. _

ment. welt :

It's a cheap feed and is per- haps the most potent source of protein that is known to the cat- tle feeding world today. Urea. is

is a~ nitrogen used in fertilizer. But it acts something like this. When it-is fed toa steer, or any other member of the cattle world, the bacteria in the ‘‘rum- inant’s’’ (cud chewing) stomach

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