The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

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eiovere, wheacei se extract the concha bog "
°hirer sickle lit:— For 00110 1•••111 II • ...."',"
dieu dust of I eel tieing i. capable •if coo•
a. it ie messily express. d„ brit/ "elover sick," led-.
omit hi eonfeesed that in bum. dietrode
creased diM ally in growing clover. I
stiiiteit • this oilliaulty to the feet that mhpsssd
ac..
deed is di rived from earner Wien Aa4 --
ruher cii. bit prioclullF to the
F.iniuig it in lb.
ethot
by. or ifiii"ei:But;:tscrb"hivasti:;:tve;hems::reslk't;:l't of• plapiromml foe children.,
The chillern will soon have noe Place
Vor to play in. an' if they do grn•,
They will have a thin stiosherienu tau,
We their bodies Po supple 44,11411,
But a Man is • intik!. or la child,
An' his limbs do grow worlasoole hi we,.
Ale if the young add'n little body • lauded,
Why the man% well the sooner decay.
Now if this be so where no maxy years follow,, 4
corrective to toe cramping system, can it be wondti.,
that the second half of the history of the
plant sh,,old I.
affected by the smothering and dr. M
wing up of the it
half. The miteliief is augmented in tie second year by
the growth of weedy., not only in the... notice to the,.,
but thou too often sown with the seed. some VMS
since 1 inatituti d • aeries of inqui el, s into this matter,
and then found that samples of clover geed as rec.irat
from different seedsmen were shamefully dirty, 1,
he
other iospectors of nuisances., I received Do
amount of ill. will for ray p•loa. but I hada wiliciebt
reward in the fact that for the last flee yearn Zhu. not
net with such dirty umples ea (then export], although,
within this year I have esamined as essay as fifty
specimens, obtained from both "large and
seediquen, and have others in hand. For 00,114. d
Cirencester we kept up plota of different clovers, aed
found Nast when drilled and kept clear of weei• the
annual red clover would keep. good plant for three,,
four years, and that by digging and sowing again,
good crop could be got, and once we could point to beds
of perennial clover that had been kept up for as much
aa terse years in good condition. Indeed, I consider
the common to be ea nosily pereanial as almost any
perennial plants. But if it be attacked by weeds and
parasites it will with difficulties be grown at all. Bet
the soil end mode of cultivation is • common cum of
the so-called clover sickness. OM the oohtes of the
Cotheaerolde, on which we have, perhaps, four inches of
*oil and then the solid rock, we constantly hear of this
complaint; indeed, on the College farm of eoliths sand,
.11 the land was amid to be clover nick, and so long as
the plough was not allowed to go deeper than four
inches, it undoubtedly was so. But whet the impres-
sion gained ground that there four inches Lad been
worked out, it was determined to PAO the steanipplough
for our roots to the depth of twelve inches, thee
followed the barley to be ateueeded by clover, and tbe
crop referred to of 2i tons of hay to the acre was attri.
bated to this method of cultivation. I have now
the same promise in another geld with the
some treatment, and begin to think that deep
cultivation for roots Is a present core for clover
sickness, and therefore, so far from waiting the pt,,.
cribed eight years for another crop of Corp, I Lau
pursued my own course independently of my pude-
cessoe, in each instance eliciting the remark, "Who
would have thought it r I look then upon the tubitct
of clover sickoesa as one dependent upon the following
precautions —A jodicious change and choice of
wed. We inquire solo the moil from whence we cot
our seed barley and wheat, but whoever asks this with
regard to clover? 2nd.—The rejection, as a role, of
foreign seed, more esoecially if from a warmer country.
3rd.—Clovers should be self-sown to be perfect, hat if
sown with grain we should at all events take we to
now clean 'reds in clean land; weeds, &detail to the
hindra
sick of any crop similarly treated. 4tb.—r)e. per eal.
grownince
thhy. corn,
same
wkwilly,
be. trhatmwench jigorht anzll I,6ahindt
tivation, if only to the extent of three or four inch, s,
for if we go deeper we have fresh capital to draw
upon ; indeed, deep cultivation may be regarded as the
renovator of the soil for the present generation. v•ai
of the food•prodou'ae
depth of Common ploaghing ha. of late been fluted
...dui or the soil to the ordinary
into the esa. It is to be hoped that satisfactory means
of stopping this watt* will be discovered and promptly
larded upon, but meanwhile, the edema-plough may
obviate immediate deficiencies. —Bradford Abbas, Sher-
burne.