Thursday, October ?, n - I - " Sow Crimaoiv Clover Now! f Not Too Late Over Most of the South to Sow This Great Cover Crop and Thus largely Increase the Corn Yield Next Year Keep Winter Cover on Lands a nd Prevent Loss of Fertility. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. BvT. B, HE BETTER our farmers be come acquainted with crimson clover, the more highly they value it as a soil improver, especially if corn is to follow. The reports that come into my office give testi mony to its value as a crop to "pre cede corn. In a letter just received from an eastern Carolina farmer, living in a county where a few years ago it was supposed crimson clover would hot grow, he states that if he could grow each year such crops of crimson clo ver as he grew last year he could reduce his fertilizer purchases to only enough to side-dress his crops. He also stated that if he could have got ten a good stand of corn where he nad crimson clover, ne would nave made from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. His is simply one letter out of several all testifying to the great value of crimson clover as a soil improver. H With such experiences as growers of crimson clover are having, the wonder is that every farmer is not growing it, at least to .some extent. In central, and eastern Carolina, and the States south of us, now is the time to sow crimson clover. Sow about 15 pounds of seed, if 'm seed, or twice or three times id a. many if in the chaff, per acre and harrow in. The seed are very high- priced this season retailing at about 12 cents per pound, but the results, if the crop does well, will justify the purchase. $8.20 Worth jof Nitrogen Per Acre. According to chemical analysis, a ton of crimson clover hay contains about 41 pounds of nitrogen which is practically all taken from the air, if grown on land well inoculated with the crimson clover bacteria. This is more nitrogen than an average 8-2-2 ton of commercial fertilizer contains, which accounts for its great corn-producing proclivities. I'his quantity of nitrogen, at ,20 cents per pound, is worth $8.20, which is well worth spending two or three dollars to pro cure. If the crop should produce more than one ton of hay per acre, the quantity of nitrogen would be still larger. This does not include the nitrogen which the roots, stubble, etc., contain, which is quite worth considering. Nor is the nitrogen added to the soil the only benefit we get from the clover. It makes a fine winter cover crop and as such is a great protection from winds, rains, etc., keeping in the land much fertility that would otherwise be lost. Being a deep root ing crop it will help to make our soils deeper after the roots decay by per mitting the air and moisture to fol low the holes they made through the subsoil and by their action make fer tile soil deeper down than it now is. The vegetable matter or humus which it will add to the soil will act as host for millions of bacteria so necessary for making available plant food for the crops that may follow. The advantages of crimson clover are so many that they can not all be treated in the space allowed for this article, therefore I suggest that those who are interested in the crop write to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D, C, and ask for bulle tins on crimson clover, also ask for bulletins on other legumes. How to Inoculate the Soil. Crimson clover, being a legume, re quires the presence of the bacteria for that plant. Unless hese bacteria are in the soil the crop will be disap " pointing. Jf it is not known that the Parker. soil already contains the necessary ; bacteria, it will be well to procure from a field which grows crimson clover successfully soil to inoculate the land with. Apply of this soil, broadcast, from 2 0 U to 500 pounds per acre, preferably on a cloudy day or. late in the afternoon and harrow in at once. If the soil is allowed to re main uncovered in the hot sun for some time, millions of the bacteria may be killed by the sunshine and the land fail to be sufficiently inocu lated to make a satisfactory crop. Hairy Vetch Another Good Cover Crop. What I have here written about crimson clover applies with equal force to Hairy vetch. Hairy vetch is even richer in nitrogen than crimson clover and in some respects makes a better hay than clover. However, if it is to be planted for hay, it will be best to sow it with oats, or a smooth head variety of wheat, say 25 pounds of .vetch and '1 bushels of oats or 3 pecks of wheat per acre. Cut when the wheat or oats are in the dough state. I regard vetch as an exceptionally fine crop and advise those of our farmers who have never grown it to nut in at least one acre this fall. It Cfaii be put in even later than crimson cIcvp' but the earlier it is now put in, tu ' tter. If sown alone, use about 3u '.uds of seed per acre, f A Cowpea Thresher That Does the Work. Messrs. Editors: During December I heard that a pea thresher, for threshing peas from mown vines, had been purchased by one of our neigh bors and that it was perfect success. A few days ago Mr. Scarboro, the owner said to me, "I want you to see this machine at work. It is a perfect success. Can't you come to Mr. Thom as Barham's Monday and see us thresh his hay?" I went, but I just iid get there in time to see the last of 16 stacks of hay go into the mouth of the machine. It was manufactured by the Koger Pea and Bean Thresher Co., of Morristown, Tenn., and sold for 1300, f.o.b. It is as. large as a small wheat thresher. It cuts the hay and cleans the peas perfectly without breaking them. The hay was hauled from the field where it had been stacked since the fall. A 4-horse-power International gas oline engine, with ease, was furnish ing the power. Mr. Scarboro said he had threshed between four and, five hundred bushels of peas. It will thresh a half bushel per minute from good hay. ' He bales the hay as it is threshed. The hay is in much better condition after it is threshed. It is cut fine, yet not so fine but that it can be handled with onlj' two wires on each bale. Two wires would not be enough if the hay is to be shipped. must say, I don't think that more than , two wires will be necessary in this community for sometime yet. E. L. SHEARON. Wake Co., N. C. Clean Advertising. Messrs. Editors: Do you mind my writing you an earnest appreciation of the stand you have taken for clean advertising? It is such a comfort to read your paper and not meet the reek and the filth so common to many farm journals, making them an actual menace to morals, health and pocket-book. ALDEN B. FARNHAM. PROOFING "yE OFFER, to the con- " sumer ;the best Ready if . 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