Salisbury, N.C., June 24—Barley and vetch planted after corn, properly fertilized and topdressed with nitrate of soda, returned a yield of between three and four tons of dry hay per acre on the farm of W.D. Graham near Salisbury, reports W.G. Yeager, County Agent for the Extension Division of the State College of Agriculture.
Mr. Yeager states that the land on which this hay was grown was good bottom land recently drained. It was first put to corn for three years to “tame it down” and last fall Mr. Graham planted it to a mixture of barley and vetch. He fertilized the crop before planting with 300 pounds of a good high grade fertilizer and then topdressed this spring with 100 pounds per acre of Nitrate of Soda. The result was one of the heaviest grain and legume hay crops ever seen in the section.
“This field,” says Mr. Yeager, from the time it was about ready to cut until the last load of hay had been removed, was a source of much attention in the neighborhood. About 60 different parties in automobiles drove to see it, and many were impressed with the possibilities it showed for making hay in an intensive way.”
Mr. Yeager states that the hay crop of Rowan County this year will be worth more money than the grain crop, and, on some farms, will be the main source of money with the exception of cotton, which of course is yet to be made.
From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., June 30, 1924
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