The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-17

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Of these / counted between twenty and
thirty seed on another, between thirty ana
forty; and On third, forty-two. Whether
such would be the result in ell cases am
not prepared to say, butt is left to the judg-
ment Of the intelligent reader whether in the
course Of even two years such afield ofground
| would not in ell probability be covered as
thick as It could stand If only small part
| Of such an amount Of seed were produced.
Let us now pause one moment to caicu-
| fate tho difference between this and the
usual cost Of red clover. For req clover
one would have to fertilize such iand at Q
cost Of from ten to fifteen or twenty dollars
an acre before it would even terminate.
Next. there would be two or three dollars
more for seed. Then, in two or three years
it would all die out, leaving you to do all your
work over again. But you would get the
proceeds in red clover the first year. Very
true but you would get less the second, II
pastured; and by the fourth year none at
all. That is about the experience here.
Per contra, Lespedeza requires no manure
whatever at the outset the seed for one
acre need not cost you, even at present
prices, over two dollars; and once well set,
it will last you till your locks blossom like
the snow-drop, even if you begin before
thew have established the fixed color OF
vonth: for the more cattle that run upon
It, in the ordinary way Of pasturing, the
better it will grow, IL We can form any
Indictment Of its habits form the facts be-
fore our ewes. Which, then, is best2 1t
would seem that either some of us are won
derfully mistaken, or red clover has seen
the best of it's days here at the South.
A.. Will itkill broom-straw or sedgegrass!
why, yes; to be sure it will. If you don't
believe it, just come to Catawba county,
where it is yet scarcely made beginning,
and see for yourself. AS the boor SAID
when asked by the parson whether ne
would take the woman for his Welded
wife, "That is just what it coined for" 1t
is the very work which Of all others it seems
to love best. 1t will sweep in year or
two the rifest field of it as clean as water
will wash child's face. 1t will kill tJust
as certainly and just as dead as death vii!
one day kill every son and daughter OF
Adam. What and Tennessee broom grass,
too? Yes, Tennessee broom-grass, too, as
dead as door nail.
But will it kill nutgrass, wiregrass, Der
mudaerass, and all the like kind Of pests
That I do not know, having had no oppor-
tunity of judging. Gentlemen of character
and position who have had such opportu-
nifty say it will. / make no doubt Of the
fact; but there might be q struggles KIM
of pull Dick, pull Harry contest that 1t Wouia
take time to decide. 1t is mighty agent
where it gets once well established, before
which scarcely anything Of its own dimen-
sions can stand. AS for crabgrass and such
backward and feeble things, it makes no
more of them after the first yesr than fire
does Of boar frost. They can no more get
through it or live among it than they could
on ground covered six inches deep with
pine straw.
s. Once in the ground, can it ever be got
out again. Certainly it can, if there is
fixed and persevering determination to get
it out not otherwise, for if left to pursue
its own course, it will seed itself forever.
All that would be necessary would be to
blow it up as fast as it started for one or
two seasons till all the seed that happened
to be in the ground had terminated and
been destroyed. There is scarcely anything
that yields more readily to plow or hoe.
G. Will it do to SOW with wheat or oats
Yes; but it will be retarded in it's progress.
It will not expand itself go widely, and will
not scatter go much seed. Therefore, sow
thinly and by itself, unless you can afford
to SOW as thickly as red clover. In that
case, sow as you would red clover with any
small grain.
7. Can it be cut the second time for hay
do not know certainly, not having tried 1t.
A neighbor tells me he cut 1t twice last
year on piece Of low meadow. l have
every reason to believe it true. -,
s. How much hay will it make to the
acre.? As much as red clover, or more, and
of q more delicate texture. On strong damp.
lands it will attain height Of two and q
half feet, and stand the thickest of any
thing ever saw. Judge for yourself.
The great value of this plant, as often be-
fore observed, consists in its capability of
bringing our now worthless and cast-away-
old fields into profitable use as pasture lands
in O very short time and at comparatively
little expense. Let us, till seed becomes
less expensive, scatter it thinly over such
fields and leave it to work its own way.
The first season the plants will, be few;
like Virgils shipwrecked mariners,
"Rart nantes tn qurgits vaSto.'
The second year they will show them
selves in force. They will SOON run and
unite together, making-to reverse on ex.-
preston of Shakespeare
"Making the red one green"
And beautiful green it will be. Com
pared with what we now see on our denu-
ded hillsides, it will be as the brightness
and glory of May morning to the sombre
aspect of wintry sky.
am now Offering seed in the pericarps,
almost perfectly clean, at one dollar an
ounce. Any time will do to SOW alone
on old fields till the lst Of May, though not
go well as more early. T. S. W. MOTT.
Sherrin'S Ford, March l, 1869.
INFLAMED UDDERs.-Messrs. Editors,-
Your correspondent NJ, of Madison county,
inquiries January I, page 49, for remedy
for inhamed udders. About his heifer: |