Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-03-27
Glover Seed.

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yer cultivation with much interest.
/ too believe it will prove to be al
most the salvation of this worn out
farm land. ! have only just COM
menced its use here the present sea-
son, but / have had seventeen years
experience with it in renovating
worn out clay farms in Ohio with
most complete success. My plan for
saving seed is as follows:
First, always cut it with a reaper,
and if you don't own one hire some
man to do it who has reaper instead
of tramping the clover down with
horses by cutting it with moving
machine. The horses with a reaper
never go in the grass. Then hold the
gavels on the table Of the reaper as
long as you can manage them, setting
the machine just high enough to be
sure to get all the heads. The straw
is no object to save. Leave the gavels
in straight windroW punches as near
as you can, and then don't touch it at
all. After few days it will become
perfectly cured for seed. l have
tight wagon box, with high, fiaring
sideboards four feet wider than the
wagon either side, which are also
tight. We drive between the gavels
of cured clover seed, and two men
with the team can load from the
ground, the best with wide siX-tined
barley forks, made entirely of wood.
Put the fork under the gavel and if
dry lift carefully over into the wagon
box, never allowing any one to stand
on the seed or ride on the load. Drive
it to the barn or some dry place and
then unload, and keep it dry until
you are ready to hull it. If you do
this in tight barn you can save it
all. If you have the crop under good
shelter you know then you are always
ready for the clover huller, which is
the only terrible part of the industry
: They create famine fast, and always
twice glad, but you are the best
pleased when they go away.
Our clover hulling machines of the
North do splendid work. They keer
running it through the machine until
it is perfectly clean, and then only
charge ninety cents per bushel fol
; good, clean seed, in far better condi
ton than any | have been able tC
purchase here.
We cut first crop in Ohio very early
for hay. The seed is always in second
crop. Our average of seed per acre is
from two to four bushels, and two
+ tons of hay or more.
| turn the clover sod under every
, time, after taking one crop of seeC
e and hay from it. The roots are ther
t the largest they ever are, and do lane
1 more good than at any time as ma
nure.
t We plant corn on our clover sod
4 using 200 pounds of superposphate t,
each acre. Then follow corn will
t oats the next season, and use 90
pounds of superphospate with then
= to the acre. We turn under our oat
s stubble as early as possible after GA
harvest and top dress the land wit
g all the stable manure we can scrap
;. up or make on the farm during tn
y whole year. Then early in the fal
n harrow nicely and pulverize fnel
i the seed bed for the wheat, mixin
o the manure as much as possible wit
T. the soil. Then drill wheat as shallo,
@ as any Of our fertilizer drills wi
l. work and put in your wheat. / lis
one and half bushels here in Tenne
see and 200 pounds of superposphat
with it again. And if you don
have good crops and renovate oil
50 WORKOUT land very fast God save til
ed country, for it is beyond all help!
II. TALCOTT.