The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-02-26
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loss hone Of its importance or interest
to farmers by age:
At what period clover was frat cul-
tivated cannot say. 1 think the an
clients had no knowledge " It-Bome
of our farmers seem equally ignorant.
/ am ambitious to make them value
il. Scarcely one farmer In fifty, in
the North, eoHs clover; in the South,
not one in ten thousand, and yet it Is
silver and gold.
EUsuaIly it Is s0wn among wheat
aud on a late snow in March. Il the
spoW mefgs quickly. Il Mill 60nt of
and come up in bunches, If if comes
up well, and freezing weather follow,
much or twill die. The hest WaS Is
TO SOW with oats, less seed Is required,
the sMnpnnd Ia fresh, the harrow COW
err II il eute 70 grow. Good seed
Is plnnp and OF yellow ereeEish
color. ! do NOT know that it will do
better, or as well, when soWn by
itself.
1t has been customary to SOW cloper
on worn-out land a good idea. II
one horse is stolen, take care Of the
other. The time 20 sow is before the
soil gets poor. Then il will cover the
ground the FIRST year, and it can be
cut and fed q year or two sooner. Ii
will take from three TO five years to
restore poor land with clover. If the
land lie very poor some manure must
be used to start ii. There is one other
way to restore land it will take two
years, aud from $50 TO 500 worth of
xn4huro to the acre.
Let me have the- attention of farm
ers who have poor farms, or who are
rapidly making them poor. On a
large farm, where much grain is raised
You cannot get manure enough to
keep II up. "a small farm can be
ruined soon, and It will be, il it is not
well managed. / know of no section
where farmers have long made money
faisiuK wheat unless after clover
Generally the farmers of our country
make from ten to twenty cents q day
trying to raise wheat. This will rum
any man this is why so many are
ruined. Farmers will thrive when
they SOW clover they often will when
they cease to raise Whest.
have noticed that wheat put in
after clover suffers less from rust.
feom the midge, from the weevil, and
the fly. It never Winter kills, and
this is the reason why. The roots of
clover are not only many and large,
butthey descend deep into the ground.
No p10w can 60 so sep, but ploWiDg
kills them. Through the Fall and
Winter they rot, and far down the
soil s loose and constansly moving.
The fbrous roots of the wheat easily
work downward, and by winter they
have SO firm hold that the frost can
not disturb them. From this we see
the use of land is similar to under
drained land-in the best sense it is
sub-soiled. One clearly sees that
wheat on such land can scarcely fail,
Nothing is more certain that it does
not fail WI heat after clover always
Yields i've bushels more to the acre
] would not be far from the truth If l
should say twenty bushels. What
miserable, mean farmers do we see,
putting wheat in oats-stubble, or sIob-
bkEfng It among corn, when So worth
of cloFerseed will SOW ten acres. Il
is not land that many want, it is q
knowledge how to manage it.
Suppose q common Western farm
sells for $40 an acre if it is in clover
twill seII2for $50, at least it will
bring this money in two years by
raising wheat upon it and the title
may TCmaIHs
What aAeautiful country is that in
which thetoWn of Bloomington stands
In the remote streets, in the vacant
lofs, on the public grounds, the people
have soWn clover. In September the
feed was half-knee high.
knowledge is said to be power, il
certalnlY. ID wealth. The Heavens do
not ste 3 whispef how we shall get
Il
wealth by right use of ideas. IT is
iotoni yseasy to restore the wofn-oul
cotton-fields of the South, but also to
greatly increase the prOductiveness of
those now TILED Cotton delights to
grow in the light and porous soil Gre
ated by decayed clover. And such
land will, By half. diminish the labor
of cultivation. The plow sinks, the
ere of the hoe is hid, the foot 10 ankle
deep. 1t is said that clover will not
grow there. One thing is mistaken
for smother. tits ideds that do not
grow there. Ny judgment is that ii
Is the best land for clover in the world
Ten acres OF clover is worth more
than ten acres Of corn. In the Spring
turn your hogs on it in Autumn, fin.
ish faftening them with corn il will
not take much. ] know a farmer who
only gives them bran, and no one has
heavier or better pork. A span oi
horses put in q stable, cannot eat the
clover on an acre il will grow faster
than you can cut it. Glover hay il
worth thirty per cent more than tim.
ethy to make cows give milk. There
is peculiar property in the seed
which causes greater secretion, for
clover from which the seed is taken is
not worth much.
am in favor of small lots. Inside
fences can be made cheap. Drive
stakes three feet long in q straight
line. Let the tops be level and square
Lay rails on top. Bind each rail will
two cross stakes, Put another rail Oh
top. 1t viii not keep out hogs but ns
COW can get over. No land is wasted
1t iB easy to moYe it.
Clover will grow faster for being
fed. It is better for cows aud hog
than when cut. Itried soiling once
The COWS did not know what 10 make
of it. We hauled clover enough te
last them two days. They ate il vi
in two hours. We got another load
1t was soon gone. The flies troubled
them, and they could not get them off
] went TO milk, and returned fol
WA16l 4AE1t471O ~ C16s LdGJ ltAl not SAfe
az mich as common. When 1 go
through, one side of my face and tht
back Of my head required water and
towels, too. tried it the next day
I haven't tried it since. The people
in Massachusetts are said to be very
polite. / presume the cows are.
There are many farmers going tC
ruin who would be saved if they
would SOW clover. There are many
farms which do not yield two pei
cent. on the labor they receive, which
would yield twenty if put down tc
clover. There are large poverty.
stricken regions where farmers are
deiuded with the idea that If they trS
long enough they can raise wheat
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