The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 21, 1907, Page 2, Image 2
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Agricultural
Crimson Clover in a Nat*
shell.
It is Time Right Now to Sow
This Great Soil Improver
and Here Are the Very
Facts You "Want to Know
About It.
Progressive Farmer.
Crimson clover is useful (1)
for soil improvement, (2) loi
hay, and t3) lor grazing in Marcl
and April. Crimson clover i?
an annual plant, making i's entire
growth in about rcven oi
eight months, from September tc
May. See either purchased oi
homegrown, must he =own evert
year.
Crimson clover thrives on f\
groat variety ol soiis. inclu linp
some of the poorest. It is much
more apt to succeed on so:Itpoor
n lime than is red clover.
II does especially wen on a mixture
ol clay and sand, that on
loam or clay loam soil. On
strongly acid soils its success i
doubtful, unless lime is used a
fertilizer.
Sow fifteen to twenty pounds
of seed per acre broadcast when
the s<?il is moist between September
10 and October 10, September
sowing being generally preferable.
The land should be free
trom much litter. There is no
better place for crimson clover
seed than a clean cotton field,
where the seed may be sown
among the growing cotton plan's
immediately after the first'picking
Covor with a one-hoi>e
cultivator, or scrape, etc.
Unplowed cowpea stubble land,
disced, often makes a good seed
bed. It tho land must be plowed,
pulverize and compact it by
the use of harrow, drag or roller.
On mo9t soils 200 to -100 pounds
of acid phosphate woum he helpful.
On acid soils 6 to 8 barrels
of lime per acre, first slaking
it, may be ilesirable. When
crimson clover is sown among
growing cotton plants, we use no
fertilizer.
now TO INOCULATE.
Do not. was'? any money on
crimson clover seed unless yon
can inoculate them with suitabl
soil. With'ut inoculation this
crop is generally an entire f i 1 ure.
Inoculation consists in sowing
with tli ; seed certain germs
that will cause enlargements on
the roots of certain plants.?
Those enlargements* ot
tubercles are fertilizer factorial
changing the useless nitrogen
of the air into the form of nitrogen
useful for fertilizer, or foi
unrl pnul.ilU/. if bought 11
fertilizer, fully 15 cents |>ei
pound.
The surest means of inoculat
ing the seed consis's in kowii^
with tlie seed some soil from r
spot where any true clover, ?<
red, white or critn on, has recently
grown successfully. S >i 1
from around the r<>o's of Japan
("wi'd") clover will not serve.
Careful search in most old lawnand
pastures will often reveal 'he
presence of one of the small
white clovers. This is difltin.
fiuisnable in the fall by i?* round
ish, small heartshaped leaves one
THE LAN I
Department.
I by fin-ill roundish en'ar^ementa
(tubercle-) on 1 he ro >ts. Mix
a little waur wi'h soil from ti?ispot.
Then mo sfen the crimson
clovers, ed in this dirty water.
Now mix the; wet seed with notne
c/\tl i 1 .'liH* noivilfir.
W1 l iwg T'lliu rv ?< Vil ,7 I ' ?? - V
ed condition. It ihe inoculating
-oil is shun 1 iiit, sow broadcast,
in nddi'iou, from a few hundred
pounds to one ton of it per acre.
O'herwise, omit this latter step.
Promptly coyer seed and in 1
. ocuhtting earth with a harrow.
, Much sunlight may kill tho
ge?ms Imculitim with soil is
many limes surer than reliance
. on "pure cultures," or inocu'a
ting material prepared in the
. laboratory. Do not pay extra for
seed said to b^ inoculated. it
will pay to have soil from some
clover fi 1 1 t h pp d you. None
can he shipped from Auburn
because our S' il contain ? germs
of di-ease.
HOW TO 17SB CRIMSON CLOVKll. I
Criiu^on clover can be cut for j
hay about April 20 to May 1.
The stubble has considerable
fertilizing value, and wilP great
- ii r
ly increase toe vieiu 01 any iau'
crop that follows the clover,
such a-' corn, sweet potatoes,
sorghum, etc.
By Apr;l l*t 'ho crimson clover,
about halt grown, may be
plowed under in time for a cotton
crop, thus improving the land
while it grows cotton every year
Crimson clover tithes the place
of cottonseed 01 ?al or ni'rato of
soda in the feriiiizer, buf doesu't
lminish t ho need f< r t< rtilizing
cotton wit i phosphate or potash.
To get. maximum fertilizing ef.
feels, stock should be kept oil'
until just before plowing under
(the half grown crimson clover,
when it may be grazed.
The nr. wing of crimson clover
(or vetch or b -rr clover) consti
tu'es the most practical method
oi immeu iteiy adding j.? to otn
percent to the leriili'v of most
of tlie land devoted lo cotton.
Let no man expect, to succeed
without inoculation. Failing to
find suitable soil, arrow as a sam
j>le a patch of crimson clover so
email that you can cover tire
ground with stable manure. Hut
inoculated plants do not need
stable manure.
J. V. Duggar,
Director A1 tbama Experiment
Station, Auburn, Ala.
The New Pure Food and Drug Law
We are pleased to announce that Policy's
Honey and Tur for coughs, colds
and tang troubles is not aftectel by the
National Pure Food and Drug law as it
contains no opiates or other harmful drugs,
and we recommend it as a safe remedy
for children and adults. Fnoderburk
! Pharmacy.
Four Killed in Auto Accident.
r _____
t Colorado Springs, Col., Sept.
i 19?A powertul racing automo
bile occupied by seven prominent,
- Ell'a and a chauffeur, and
; built to hold bm three pass
? engeis, whi'e running at a lerrifi
ic rate crashed inio a telephone
pole at the hoHom of the VVest
' llurfatido street hill here to day,
and was wrecked. Four of the
occupants \ve*? killed outright,
< and the others mangled almost
beyond recognition.
OF INTEREST TO MANY
Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any caae
of kidney or bladder trouble that 1h not
beyond the reach of medicine N<? meci'
eine ctin do tuoro. Funderhurk Pharmacy
/ASTEll N!iWS, SEPTEMBER
The Value of Shredding >
Corn And How Dairying
Improves the Land from 5
to 50 Bushels of Corn.
Soul kern Cultivator.
Some time ago you askpd that
I write you an article on shred*
ing corn. I should h ive (lor'e
this <raiii?*r but perhaps it is n< t
now too !a;e to influence some
In ul'T'Qil
1 y>ought mv outfit;?a tread
power and small shre d ?r?somo
eight years ago, which has done
seiv'ce each yaar sine*, very
nearlv payini lor itself each
year. Lwt year 1 and a good >1
lustration ot what e rti alone is
wor h It happened that the
clover was convenient to feed
and my hay wa9 no!, so 1 fed
stover for roughage to my cows
f'?r eeve*nl months. When the
stover fi. :vft out 1 ted one meai
of silage nn i ore of hay with no
perceptible change in the amount
ot but'er ma-ie p *r d iy.
It would be impossible for in
; o rna dairy wi'hout shredding
my corn, and 1 sho- Id c -n id* r
t had lost half < f my crop it 1
fai'ed to save the stdlis.
1 feed my cow' a hundred do 1
!;:rs worth of stover a month as
long as it lasts. On my crop this
year of 12 acres of early corn i
will make 01)0 bush< Is 'if corn. 1
al o have 4 ncres of late corn, (>
acres rf silage and a small
; amount ol hay, and on tnis I in!
tend to winter 4') cows and 6
I horses, and 1 wi 1 have some left
for the yearlings. As \ write this
article! am looking out over a
field of which before J started
info dairying would no1 make 5
bushel^ of corn per hcm?, which
new will yield 50 bus! els.
Since you were hero I have
built a new cow barn holding 40
cows and have gotten mv besf
Jersey cow up to 50 poundft
milk a dav, the herd making
30 pounds of butter each
day, for which I get 30 cents
per pound net.
W. I. Harley.
Sowing Grain and Grasses.
September and October are
the months for sowing grasses
and grain. We trust all our
farmers will do their lull duty
in this respect. While none can
tell the results ol a grain crop,
you can predict with absolute
certainly that all grain or grasses
! put in at the right time will yield
more than those pu? in later.
' There is a time for all things"
the Btb'.e declares, and I he one
who does th right tiling at the
right time always receives a
sure return. This is alt-o true
ol the man who takes pains to
put in his grain well. Remember
that deep and thorough
breaking pays and that "each
time you barrow the land will
add a bushel to the yield for
each acre" Try mixed grain and
grasses, t hen when >our grain
j is taken off the land the grass or
clover will come right along.
Remember that rape, Arctic
grass, hurr clo\er, red clover and
vetch all grow in the winter and
all make good food for stock.
They all save corn, and corn is
money. If you have any to
spare you can get the money for
it. So with the above crops they ;
nil will lirillir ill ,11,-v Stonllii.rii
? J
Cultivator.
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howing" of
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you can get the
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irowns, Tans and
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lawns at less than same
mufacturer. Cut prices
of clothing,
notion samples?some
them before they are all
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