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Thursday) September 12, 1907. 13 Crimson Clover in a Nut-shell. It is Time Right Now to Sow This. Great Soil Improver and Are the Very Facts You Want to Know About It. Here Messrs. Editors: Crimson clover is useful ( 1 ) for soil improvement, ( 2 ) for hay, and (3) for grazing in March and April. Crimson clover is an annual plant, making its entire growth in about seven or eight months, from September to May. Seed, either purchased or home grown, must be sown every year. Crimson clover thrives on a great variety of soils, including some of the poorest. It is much more apt to succeed on soils poor in lime than is red clover. It does especially well on a mixture of clay and sand, that is, ,on loam or clay loam soil. On stronelv acid soils Its success is doubtful, unless lime is used fertilizer. as ing earth with a harrow. Much sunlight may kill the germs. Inocu lation with soil is many times surer than reliance on "pure cultures," or inoculating material prepared in the laboratory. Do not pay extra for seed said to be inoculated. It will pay to have soil from some clover field shipped you. None can be ship ped from Auburn because our soil contains germs of disease. How to Use Crimson Clover. Crimson clover can be cut for hay I about April 20 to May 1. The stub ble has considerable fertilizing value, and will greatly increase the yield of any late crop that follows the clover, such as corn, sweet potatoes, sorgh um, etc. By April 1st the crimson clover, about half grown, may be plowed un der in time for a cotton crop, thus improving the land while it grows i cotton every year. Crimson clover takes the place of cottonseed meal or nitrate of soda in the fertilizer, but doesn't diminish the need for! fertilizing cotton with phosphate or potash. To eet maximum fertilizing I where the seed may be sown among effects, stock should be kept off until the growing cotton plants immedl-l just before plowing under the half ately after the first or second pick- grown crimson clover, when it may ing. Coyer with a one-horse cum-he grazed. vator, or scrape, etc. ; The growing of crimson clover (or , Unplowed cowpea stubble land, vetch or burr clover) constitutes the! disced, often makes a good seed bed. most practical method of immediate If the land must be plowed, pulyer- iy adding 25 to 50 per cent to the ize and compact it by the use of fertility of most of the land devoted harrow, drag or roller. On most to cotton. Let no man expect to suc- soils 200 to 400 pounds of acid phos- ceed without inoculation. Failing to phate would be helpful. On acid find suitable soil, grow as a sample soils 6 to 8 barrels , of lime per acre, a patch of crimson clover so small first slaking it, may be desirable, that you can cover the ground with When crimson clover is sown among stable manure. But inoculated plants growing cotton plants, we use no do not need stable manure. September Sowing is Best. Sow fifteen to twenty pounds of sped Der acre broadcast when the soil is moist between September 10 and October 10. September sowing being generally preferable. The land should be ffee from much, litter. There is no better place for crimson clover seed than a clean cotton field, ings the small boy of the household watched in silence the visitor's ef forts at making a toilet under the unfavorable aspices, but when! on the third day the toothbrush, nail file, whiskbroom, etc., had been duly used and returned to their places in the traveler's grip he could suppress his, curiosity no longer, so boldly put up question, "Say.mister, air you al ways that much trouble to yo'se'f ?" -Lippincott's. ! ' ' mm i 5' - .- i the fertilizer. J. P. DUGGAR, Director Alabama Experiment Sta tion, Auburn, Ala. How to Inoculate. Do not waste any money on crim son clover seed unless you can inocu late them with suitable .soil. With out inoculation this crop is generally an entire failure. Inoculation con sists in sowing with the seed certain germs that will cause enlargements on the roots of certain -plants. These enlargements or tubercles are fer tilizer factories changing the useless riitrogen of the air into the form of nitrogen useful for fertilizer, or for food, and costing, if bought in fer tilizer, fullv 15 cents ner pound. " ' , , that wheat growing Is profitable only on new The surest means of inoculating nd rich son. Mr. c. R. McKenzle. of West- the seed consists in sowing with the field. New S!81? K seed some soil from a spot where any I could not compete with Western grain fields. v.s tmc-m I TTa selected a niece of dark loam, slightly "uc .icu, v .w-; graven y soli which had had no fertilizer for has recently grown successfully. Soil 1 ten vean. it had been in grass, and farmers from around the roots of Japan can .readUyunde ( wild ) clover will a. not serve. sie used nothing on one part of the field. On Carpfnl qpnrrh In mn?t nld'lawnq and another part housed Thomas Phosphate to uareiui searcn in most oia lawns ana phosphoric acid and nitrate of soda to pastures will often reveal the pres- to supply nitrogen. On another part he used pnoft nf oTiP nf the small white the phosphate and the nitrate and In addl- ence oi one oi tne sma.ii wniie tlonmuate of pot,. The object of this clovers. This is distinguishable in was to see which element was the key to a the fall by its roundish, small heart- Lhe yleid. The answer was shaped leaves ana oy small rounaisn clear, as the following figures show the The General and the Boy. On the Atlanta campaign General Sherman made his headquarters for a time at the house of a farmer, where a tin basin and a roller towel on the back porch sufficed for the family's ablutions. For two morn- Fertilizer for Wheat. In some parts of the East farmers are glv iner tin wheat erowlne. Many of them think It useless to try and compete with the newer and richer soils of the west. Many argue enlargements (tubercles), on roots. Mix a little water with soil from this spot. Then moisten the crimson clover seed in this dirty wa ter. Now mix the wet seed with some of the same soil in dry, powder- j Plot 1 No Fertilizer.., (600 lbs. Thomas Phos 2 phate 1180 lbs. Nit. of Soda f 600 lbs. Thomas Phos Yield of grain per acre ....10 bu. eT condition. If the inoculating soil 3 180 lbs. Nit. of Soaa Wo bu. 30 bu. is abundant, sow broadcast, in addi tion, from a few hundred pounds to one ton of it per acre. Otherwise, omit this latter step. ' Promptly cover seed and inoculat- 25 bu. Increase over no fertilizer 15 bu (120 lbs. Mu. of Potash The natural soli gave only 10 bushels. The phosphate and the nitrate brought the yield to 25 bushels, but when the potash was added there waB an increased yield of 15 bushels per acre. 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