The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-05-16
a9uHle and farm.
AIsfke Glover.

AEslhC SAONCEs
Il is only few years since Ask.
clover was imported from Sweden
where !: has been grown in the ma
tive pastures for many years. The
plstt bears greater resemblance to
The common white than to the red
clover. Il yields two mowiDgs an
nuany, If cut ezpressly for Lay when
In full bloom, which in this latitude
is generally the last Of June or the
first of July. But il cut for seed it
should stand about two weeks later,
then afordlng abundance of superior
pasture for all kinds OF stock. The
seed is cut from the first crop. The
Alsike, when left to seed, has its stalks
and leaves yet green when its seeds
are ripe, and produces much better
hay than the red clover when it is cut
for that purpose.
The weight Of seed required to be
sown is from three and half to four
pounds per acre, which is an sbund-
ance. The seed being much smaller,
a less quantity is required than of the
red clover. -Four pounds Of Alsike
will seed more land than ten pounds of
REQ clover. The seed is sown at the
usual time of sowing common red
clover, on wheat, oats, rye, or barley
1t generally yields from three to eight
bushels of seed per acre. The head is
formed with pods, like common white
clover, with several seeds in each
pod.
l have tried Alsike by the side Of
red clover four successive years, seed
sown at the same time and in the
same field, and find that cattle, horses
snds heepwill notgraze on the red cl >
verso long as they can get a good bite |
on the Alsike. Ny experience is,
there is no clover equal to it for the
purpose of feeding cattle, sheep and |
horses, and ] believe it to be equal to |
the red clover as fertilizer. Il
will flourish on both moist and dry
land-does not suffer from the sever
est frosts or drouth as red clover does,
it is as free from dust or fuzz as timo-
thy; hence it will not cause horses to
cough or heaVe as red clover hay does.
1t will grow from one to two and a
half tons of superior hay to the acre,
according to the season. /
/ think never had a greater
growth of red clover than / raised
four years ago, growing from three
to five feet in length. Alsike has
more branches, leaves and blossoms
from the main stock than red clover;
the hay is therefore much finer, and
lar superior in quality. In fact, it is
OF the same nature as the common
white clover, which all farmers will un-
derstand, except growing to a much
arger size. All farmers know, who
have had experience, that common
white clover pasture is far superior TO
my red clover; therefore, If it would
grow large enough to NOW, it would
make much better hay than red clover.
Alsike clover blossoms furnish aa &
abundance of honey for bees; they
,an work on them as well as on the
white clover, and can gather
much faster.
To SOW the seed, mix the quantity
# seed with the quantity OF plaster I
you wish to sow per acre evenly, and t
ow as if sowing plaster, except on e
mailer lands. In SO doing you SOW "
'our seed at the same time that you Il
os your plaster, saving the labor of G
yoing over the field twice, and it can n
'e sown much more evenly. As the t
eed is SO small, and such little s
quantity is required per acre, it is t
lificult to hold the quantity in the G
and or jim gers that is required If P
own by hand. Plaster should be B
own as fertilizer, as on red clover. 8
Cor. Cowhtry Gentleman. Q