Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-02-11

grain will fail nine cases in ten.
The quantity Of seed to SOW per acre
depends upon the character Of the soil,
its state Of pulverization, and also upon
the fact whether the land has ever been
seeded to clover. Upon good, fresh,
rich soils where clover has not previ.
ously grown, one bushel for eight acres
VIII be sufficient. If the soil is thin
and unproductive, one bushel for six
acres ought to be sown. If the land has
been regularly rotated with clover, one
half the quantity of seed mentioned
will suffice, sometimes much less.
The frequent failure to secure a good |
stand of clover admonishes the farmers
of the State to exercise more care in
seeding. When sown late in the spring
many of the seeds sprout, and are killed
by dry weather. 1t would be all the
better if the seed could be buried
halfinch Cor even an inch on loose Soils
beneath the surface after the middle of
Marah- Earmara ara nftnn too sr,as;nt,
of the seed. While upon well prepar-
ed soils bushel to eight acres is suffi-
cient, yet bushel to six acres will, in
a majority of cases, give better and
more satisfactory results. When thin,
the woody fibre is greatly in
creased. There is no greater blunder
committed by the farmer than to be
sparing of grass seed. 1t is difficult
for grass to be too thick. The plants
shelter one another; they retain all the
dew and moisture when thickly set,
and they must push upward, as there
is no lateral space to occupy.
GROWTH AND MANURE.
Red clover rarely makes much
growth the first season if sown with
grain. Should the weather be very
seasonable after harvest, and the land
fertile, it will sometimes attain the
height of thirty inches and put out
blooms, making an excellent fall pas
ture. When sown alone, it will always
blossom in August.
Sheep are very injurious to young
clover, and should never be allowed to
run on it until the second year. Grass
hoppers, too, often eat out the crown
and destroy it. Dry weather in stub
, ble.feld where the rays of the sun are
6 reflected and repeated thousand times
from the surface of the yellow stubble,
! is very trying to its vitality. Yet if
the land has been we'll and deeply bro.
= ken and is moderately fertile, a suffi.
, cient stand may be depended upon.
. As soon as it begins to grow, in early
!. spring, an application of two bushels Of
+ gypsum or land plaster, upon granite
or sandy soils, is absolutely necessary
to get good growth.
~ Some interesting experiments were
!. made in Germany by DIR. Pincus, re
!. specting the action OF gypsum (sul
y phate of lme) upon clover. Three
70 plats of land about s of an acre eacl
u were selected in May, from the middl
u of large clover field. The plant
of were then about an inch high. One G
90 the plats was MANFRED with 1913 pound
n of gypsum, the second with the sam
~. quantity of sulphate of magnesia, an
the intervening plat was left withOu
the application of any fertilizer.
On the plats treated with .gypsul
'e the clover plants soon showed deepe
"' green and a more vigorous growtl
Gu The clover on the unmanured pill
nu bloomed four or FIVE days earlier tina
"a on the MANFRED. On the manure
~ plats the clover was in full flower {
al May "a, when it was mown. The r
u" suits were from each plat:
OF Cwt of Clover Ha
~ Without manure...."..... ......"..""""".2l
with gypsum ....... ...................'.3.
fon With sulphate of magnesia..
In l have rarely found an application
ed gypsum beneficial upon clayey loan
lal hut its effects are very apparent
yht strong limestone soils, such as are foul
Ugh in the Central Basin. On the choC
the late,colored soils of Warren, Montgo
For cry, Stewart and Robertson, gypsu
the benefits clover very little. Upon t
ind soils of the Unaka and Cumberla
the mountains, it is indispensable to sect
for a remunerative yield of foliage. R
veil clover has two growing seasons.
edi- makes its most vigorous growth FRI
and the first of April To the 18th of Jm