Thursday, October ?, n
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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.
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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.
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