The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 28, 1891, Image 8
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. Between the
ranch and Midland a distance of
twenty-five miles, the roads were bad
ly washed out.
Few children can induced to take
physic without to struggle, and no
wonder—most drugs are extremely
nauseating. Ayer’s Pills, on the con
trary. being sugar-coated, are eagerly
swallowed by the little ones, and are,
therefore, the favorite family med
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Notwithstanding the alleged hold
ing back of griin in the west there is
such a heavy noveiuent of it that the
supply of carsis said to be insufficient
to carry what .8 offered for shipment.
So long as tbit sort of activity con
tinues no dearth of supply may be
expected suffident to materially af
fect prices.
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From threshing reports it isevident
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ceeds the crop^stimates based on the
data published by the Department of
Agriculture before the harvest, In
stead of a tofal yield of 525,000,000, it
will nearly reach 600,000,(XK) bushels,
and give over 200,000,000 bushels for
export.
F. O. Hoffman, editor Times, Rocky
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Bradfixld Regulator Co.. Atlanta, Ga.
Augusta & Asheville Short Line.
Port Royal & Western Carolina
Railway.
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
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Connection made at Greenwood with
C. & G. Road ; at Anderson with the
Blue Ridge Road; at Spartanburg
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For further information apply to
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G. P. A. P. A.
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T. P. A. T. M.
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