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THE AIKEN RECORDER, AIKEN, S. C., AUGUST 28. 1891. SIEMlCftB CLOVER FAILURE AND “SICKNESS.* Peculiar Condition* of Soil That Bender Paying Crops Impossible. The advice is usually given to grow as much clover as possible on the farm, and the soils would be richer for it With most wornout soils in this country, this advice is applicable, for very few farms have a superabundance of vegetable food mixed up thoroughly with the soil, especially in the large corn growing regions. But, writes an Ohio farmer to The American Cultivator, the indiscrim inate advice to grow clover continuously on the land, and even on the same field, may in the enrl have a contrary result from what is generally expected. There are many cases of clover failure through out the country, and many who would grow clover on the farms complain that A good “catch” cannot be obtained. The clover only comes up in a straggly, sickly sort of way, which weeds and other grasses soon crowd out Elaborate systems of sowing the clover, season after season, with other seeds will sometimes effect a change on such soils, and if this can be accomplished the farm will be greatly benefited by the change. But when clover has been grown on a field year after year in large crops, and then should suddeyly begin to fail, until in time it refuses to grow any better than on the first poor soil where a catch could not be obtained, it is pretty certain that a new element has entered into the ques tion. It is undoubt wily “clover sick ness” of the soil which prevails so exten sively in England, and even in this coun try where the crop Inis been grown too long or has been frequently repeated. Clover sickness of soil is a peculiar con dition of the laud w'hich has not been understood until recently. Farmers could comprehend the destruction of the young roots by worms, insect enemies and other similar causes, and they could easily explain the reason why a good catch could not be obtained on very poor, uncongenial soil; but for the soil sudden ly to refuse to crop as it had been accus tomed to for years was a mystery. Now it appears that the soil has been over supplied with the rich clover until, like the human stomach, stuffed with too much food of one kind, it refuses to re ceive and digest any more. The land is sick of this one crop, and the soil is clover sick, as it is called in England. The cause beyond this is really obscure, even in England. R ; ch land, suitable to clover, that will grow large crops of grain, turnips and beans, refuses to grow clover except at intervals of from four to twelve years. Furthermore, it has been discovered that the addition of or ganic matter only aggravates the matter and increases the clover sickness of the soil. There are comparatively few farms MAKING CLOVER PERENNIAL. Opinions Expressed by American Culti vator on This Subject of Interest. We see occasionally statements that red clover is under some circumstances a perennial, or in other words that once seeded it may live in the ground for years. This is not the old idea of clover, which has always been recognized as a biennial, starting into growth one year, seeding the next and then dying just as annual plants do. Winter wheat and rye are familiar examples of this. Yet it has been found that many known bi ennials, if prevented from seeding the second year, can be continued in growth to the third, or even possibly until the fourth or fifth year. It is possible that clover thus prevented from seeding the second year may live over until the third. We have seen many pieces toler ably well seeded with clover the third year, and this under conditions which indicated that part of these clover plants were such as had lived over from the previous season. An interesting and to a certain extent practical question is whether this habit of perennial growth may not be perpet uated. It is quite possible that by the seeds from these leftover clover plants this has already been done, and a certain portion of the clover seed commonly sold has this perennial habit already estab lished. If it has not been done we are strong in the belief that it may be. Greater changes than this have undoubt edly been made in many of our culti vated grains and grasses. These im provements were made hundreds and even thousands of years ago. It ought to be the duty of scientists in the present time to make such improvements in cul tivated plants at the present time. There are some advantages of the bi ennial clover. It is rarely, though it is sometimes, an advantage to have clover grow and keep in the ground the third year. Some farmers may prefer to grow this, as many now prefer to grow the alsike clover, which is now as thorough ly a biennial as the common red clover used to be. It is very possible that even the alsike clover, by preventing it from seeding early as it now does, may be made to produce its seed later, and be in time changed into a perennial. Men have discovered of late how plants, ani mals and even man himself have each learned to adapt themselves to their en vironment or surroundings. Cultivated fruits and plants are generally largely influenced by the treatment to which they have been subjected. If the luscious peach was originally evolved from a bit ter almond, as has been taught, it might well seem that there is no improvement beyond the reach of human skill and ingenuity to achieve. A Flock of Guinea Fowl*. A New England woman writing in The Poultry Journal has the following to say in favor of the Guinea fowl, which, as a rule, is not popular on account of the quarrelsome nature of the male bird: A flock of Guinea fowls is a great adjunct to the farm. They make the best sort of watchmen, and never fail to notify the farmer of night thieves or poultry stealers. There is a profit in Guinea fowls, too, considering the small amount of care and expense attached to keeping them. As a rule, the Guineas prefer to pick up most of their living, and they should have a large place over Negro Tenants. A contributor to the Augusta Chron icle calls attention to a very impor tant j>oint in the cotton raising prob lem, aud that is that not one-fifth of the cotton acreage is controlled by white men in the South. This means that the great majority of white farm ers are merely landlords who rent their places to colored tenants, and that as a general thing these tenants are not to be controlled by these land lords as to acreage or anything else. The power to control the production of cotton, this writer reasons, is out side the centrol of the members of the Farmers’ Alliance, who, as a gen eral thing, are landlords or middle men in the strict sense of the term. The colored cropper grows cotton for obvious reasons. First, because he has been raised up that way, his land is suited to cotton, which is a hardy plant, and after a certain stage in its development makes itself. Sec ond, because cotton pays his rent, se cures credit at tte country store for his supplies, brings ready money in market and keeps the farm going. It is very evident that in providing for a change of acreage or in pitching crops the colored tenant is a quantity which must be considered. Wages hands are growing fewer, tenants on shares are increasing, white landlords are more numerous than ever. Haiti to Order. The first government experiment with General Deyrenforth’s rain making balloon was made on the 20th near Midland, Texas, and was a great success. There were a few scattered clouds in the sky at the time the ex periment was made, but no indica tion of rain. Several kites with dy namite attached to their tails were sent up immediately after the bal loons, aud the dynamite was explod ed by elictricity, while rend-roek powder was exploded. Great volumes of white smoke as cended, only to be beaten down by the rain, which at once began falling, and continued for four hours and twenty minutes. Incoming ranchmen aud trainmen say the rain extended over an area of many miies, and Professor Curtis me teorologist lor this rainfall expedition, estimates that it covers an area of not less than 100 miles. 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O N and after July 5th, 1891, passenger trains will run as fol lows, by 75th meridian time: North * * Leave Aiken 10:22 pm Lv Augusta 7:20 am Ar McCormick... 9:33 am “ Andersou 2:15 pm “ Greenwood .. .10:45 a m “ Laurens 11*55 am *• Greenville 1:35 p m “ Spartanburg.. .1:50 pm “ Hendersonville!:20 p m “Asheville 5:17 pm Ar Hot Springs .. .6:45 p m South * * Lv Hot Springs... Lv Asheville 11:30 am “ Henderso’ville 12:36 pm “Spartanburg 3:20 pm “Greenville 3*00 pm “ Laurens 5:15 pm “ Greenwood 6:25 p nt “ Anderson 2: p m “ McCormick 7:40 p m Ar Augusta 10:00 p m Port Royal & Augusta Railway. Time—90th Meridian. South * + Lv Augusta 11:45 am 8:00 pm Ar Yemassee .... 3:35 pm 2:10 a m Ar Charleston .. Ar Savannah. .. . .6:50 p m . 6.20 o m Ar Jacksonville. ..7:35 a m Ar Beaufort .5:20 p m Ar Port Royal... .5:40 p m North Daily Lv Port Royal .. ..7:30 a m Lv Beaufort m Lv Jacksonville. .6:30 p m Lv Savannah ... ..6:55 a m Lv Charleston... ..8:10a m Lv Yemassee 9:40 a m 3:00 a m Ar Augusta 1:30 pm 8:40 am ♦Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Through Palace Sleeper runs be tween Savannah and Asheville. Connection made at Greenwood with C. & G. Road ; at Anderson with the Blue Ridge Road; at Spartanburg with R. & D. Roads. For further information apply to Jas. L. Taylor, W. J. Craig, G. P. A. P. A. R. W. Hunt. Sol Haas, T. P. A. T. M. Augusta, Ga. Carpets. MaUings, Mosquito Nets, Oil Cloths. Wall Paper, Shades, Lace Curtains. —CLOSING— -THIS WEEK ONLY AT- Geo. J. Fargo’s, G30 Broad St., Augusta, Ga- Fumiture, China Closets, Chairs, Folding Beds, Screens, Sideboards, What Nota. JESSE THOMPSON&CO -MANUFACTURERS OF- Y JILLrOAV 1*11% II LUHBER -DEALERS IN- Window Classic Builders’ Hardware COR. 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