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Top dress tall grass hay fields early for maximum utilization of nitrogen and large hay yields. Last year farmers like Mr. Cary Thornhill and Jim Massie, who top dressed with SO to 80 lbs. of N. per acre in late February and early March, were making first cutting orchard grass hay yields of 70 to 80 per cent of normal. While other farmers who had delayed applying nitrogen until after the grass greened up and started growing were making about one third of a normal crop. Our Virginia research agronomists have proven for many years that it pays to apply nitrogen before the grasses start waking up from their winter snooze.
The spring of 77 just accentuated the fact.
YEWS (TAXUS)—A Dangerous Shrub
Just heard that a farmer in '^ladison bad poisoned a group of cows by throwing yew clippings over the fence. In years past the same thing has happened in Rappahannock and surrounding counties. Yews are the darkest of all evergreen shrubs and are commonly used as hedges and in foundation plantings around the house. Even though the
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