The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-03-26
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Sow Clover and be Prosperous and
Happy.


We state it, after mature reflection,
that we have never known a farmer
that sows clover regularly every year
that was not prosperous man.
His fields are kept fertile and his
stock fat by clover, and the rich
milk and the sweet butter that sup
. ply his table give a pleasing con-
tentment and cheerful appearance to
the housewife that add no little to
his domestic happiness.
By reference to our market re-
ports it will be seen that clover seed
are cheaper than they have been for
years The time is therefore pro-
pitious for sowing a large breadth
of land in this king of all the grasses.
There is no species of forage at
once so nutritious and so cheap as
that from clover and as a fertilizer
and subsoiler, it has no equal. The
q virgin soil which had been accumula-
ting for centuries upon the surface
of the earth has met the wants of
one generation but the red clover
has been supplied 70 draw from the
atmosphere above or from the sub
soil beneath, the elements of fertili-
ty for another generation. Let
every farmer who has not done so,
buy a few clover seed and a little
land plaster and SOW on some worn
out spot on his farm. After break
ing the land SOW the seed at the
rate of a gallon to the acre, and
when the little plants, harbingers of
thrift and plenty, appear above
ground SOW two hundred pounds of
plaster to the acre, and the land is
redeemed. at a cost. too, OF less than
three dollars per acre.
But the plaster, what good does it
do? 1t feeds the young clover by
attracting ammonia from the atmos-
phere, and the young plant in its turn
changes the carbon and oxygen into
solid matter. When the plants have
completed their growth they deposit
all this in the soil to be used in feed !
ing other crops, and marketable |
products.
The roots. too, those little quiet
workers run down two, three or four
feet into the soil. seize upon every
ingredient that can be made ser
viceable in the growth of plants and /
bring it to the surface. After a crop I
of clover the land is loose. The
roots Of plants can penetrate it
The warm air can permeate it. The
water can percolate through it
The combined action of the ele-
ments upon it produces further dis
Indignation and sets free fertilizing
elements and inorganic materials,
till then beyond the power Of plants
TO assimilate.
a crop OF clover also shades the
land and prevents evaporation, and
by so doing, the capacity Of the soil
for absorbing the manurial gases is
wonderfully increased.
There are four substances neces-
sary for the full development of a
plant, and that development is OBJ
sttucted when any one of these is
wanting, viz: water, from which OK
ygen and hydrogen are obtained
carbonic acid, which furnishes the
plant with carbon; ammonia, which
supplies the plant with nitrogen;
and lastly the Inorganic substances.
All these substances are required
before a plant can reach its complete
and I'll Of them are in
creased after a crop OF clover. BY
the soil with its roots a
larger and more constant supply of
moisture (water) is assured. The
immense surface of leaves absorb a
large quantity Of carbonic acid from
the atmosphere the roots also find
carbonic acid in the decaying organ
ic matter. Ammonia, which sup
plies nitrogen, is absorbed from the
air. And, lastly, the inorganic SUBJ
potash. soda, lime, magne-
STA, silica, etc, are rendered availa-
bic to plants by being unlocked
through the decomposition rendered
possible beneath the surface by the
admission of air and water, following
Tie channels cut by the roots of the
clover.
No farmer worthy the name can
fail to make use of clover. the cheap
est remedial agent for that most
lireful Of all diseases, poverty Of
soil. Wherever it will grow let it
be sown, ana the investment will
prove III the highest degree profta-
Sun.
Bring up boy on a farm until he
s one and twenty. giving him suita. i