The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-10
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Important Declsion.
Columbus Ohio Daily Times
The Newark machine company is
the wner OF several patents for build
ing the Victor double huller clover ma
chine, which is the only double cyIin-
der clover huller made in tho world. 1t
has q wide reputation all over the
land, and the sales have run up to 800
in q single year. After the destruc-
ton of the companE's works at New
ark last summer the Ashland machine
company at Ashland, Ohio, lent out
notices that owing to the destruction
Of the works of the Newark machine
company at Newark, that the company
would be unable to furnish hullers for
last years trade, and stated that they
would build a clover lluller and seed
cleaner as good as the Victor. The
firm of Gear, Scott Il Co., of Richmond.
Indiana, secured a Victor clover huller
and tore it apart and commenced the
building of clover hullers with seed
cleaning attachments thereto, which
could scarcely be told from the Victor,
upon which they tried to secure letters
patent. Last fall the firm Of Leggett
y Leggett, patent attorneys filed inter-
ference suit before the Commissioner
of Patents at Washington, and fur
nished such conclusive evidence of the
attempted seizure of the Newark COM
pany's patents that the Commissioner
of Patents decided that the patents of
the Newark machine are good and val
i'd in law and were infringed upon by
the firm of Gear, Scott & Co. Under
this decision the agents who have sold
or the persons who have purchased
and used q clover huller embodying
any OF the features of the Victor are
liable to the Newark machine company
for damages, which is usually 800 on
each machine, MS that was the amount
assessed by the late Judge Swayne in
the year 1867 in the case of Birdsell
manufacturing company against Nc
Donald & Co., of Wooster, Ohio, and
this same Ashland manufacturing
company, of Ashland, Ohio, above
mentioned. This should be a warning
to manufacturers and users of patent
ed articles, to buy from the owners of
the patents, and not from outside
parties. The attorneys of the Newark
machine company will now turn their
attention to the case of the Ashland
machine company for similar infringe
ments.
How Glover Restores the Soil.
Farm and Fireside.
70 study the requirements of clover
the earliest method is to compare such
with that which is derived from the,
soil when a crop of clover may be as
high as two and a half tons %, 900
pounds) on some farms, though on
Light sandy soil it may be less. This
amount of clover yields, when reduced
about three hundred pounds of ash or
mineral matter, all of whichis drawn
directly from the soil. OF this ash
about one-third. or 100 pounds, isfpure
potash, the same quantity of lime.
while the remaining 100 pounds is com
posed of magnesia (about 40 pounds)
and phosphoric acid (about thirty
pounds) with small proportions of 9TH
or minerals. Here we notice that two
thirds Of the ash of the clover is made
up of lime and potash, or we may say,
OF lime and ashes. 1t is plain, then,
that the best fertilizers for clover are
lime and ashes. which may be termed
as special foods. Although magnesia
and phosporic acid are also present, yet
they appear in such small quantities as
to require but a small sum for their
purchase. There is another ingredi
ent in clover which cannot be found in
the ash, because it is volatile, and
passes away during the process of re-
duction. 1t is nitrogen, which the
clover plant stores up for itself by the
aid Of the rains, which carry it down
to the roots, after washing it from the
atmosphere, though some claim that
the leaves Of clover are capable of con-
verting the free nitrogen Of the atmos.
phere into plant food.
OF that, however, we are not assured.
but the acre of clover will require at
least 100 pounds of nitrogen in order
to produce 5000 pounds of clover,
whether it secures it from the air or
soil, or whether directly supplied by
the grower. This estimate applies to
the harvested crop, or leaves and stem
only, but the roots that remain below,
are also rich in nitrogen and minerals.
and add their proportion of fertilizing
material to the soil when left to de.
compose. Should an entire crop of
clover be plowed under, it will convey
into the soil a quantity of nitrogen
sufficient for three average crops of
wheat, with sufficient potash for twice
that amount, while the phosphoric acid
will supply at least two crops. Its
benefit to the soil as a manurial crop,
therefore, is greater than a heavy APP
p~lication of barn-yard manure, while
the effects are lasting, and extend over
a period of several seasons. Although
it thus adds severalimportant elements
of the soil apparently. it really takes
the minerals from the soil. We cannot
gain anything by a crop of clover ex-
cept those elements that already exist
in the soil. With nitrogen nothing is
truly added, but the clover, by me-
chanical and chemical action, converts
insoluble matter into available plant
food, and when we turn under a crop
of clover we return to the soil that
which was taken from it, but, however,
in an entirely changed condition.
Small Economies.
American Rural Home.
Small leaks are worse than large
ones, in that they are not as plainly
seen, and therefore not so energetical-
ly stopped. 1t is the same in house
keeping; the almost unnoticed waste
that is seen in many families is dis
tressing, and it is generally those who
are the first to complain of hard times,
and how much it takes to keep a fam
lily. I had occasion lately to notice
the children in q family of my ae-
quaintance, and I discovered that they
wasted more bread and butter, cake
and CONNECTION, than would supply the
requirements of two more children if
i n~rnnarlu aoruad Childron nan ha