Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-08

to make up for the loss in the stalks and
leaves, which are most valuable before
| the soluble materials, such as starch, gum
and sugar, are gradually changed into
muddy fibre. Timothy is best adapted
! to partially moist, peaty or clayey soil,
/ and does not suit well on light sandy
lands. When sown alone it should have
half bushel OF seed to the acre and may
be sown in the spring or fall, but the fall
sowing is the most common, and the seed
is better to be not more than one wear
old. a good way to test the vitality
OF the seed is to sprinkle some on hot
fire shovel, when, if it mostly burns up
without a lively popping, it should be
rejected. Another good way to test it
ard other grass seeds, is to SOW a little
in a box of fine earth, keep warm and
damp for few days until their charac-
ter is determined. Growing the crop
for its seed is quite common in the
ing primary market While, according
to the definition given, red clover is not,
strictly speaking, a grass, there is no
one entitled to a higher rank unless it
be timothy, and indeed, if we were
wholly restricted to the use of only one
of the two, it would be a difficult matter
to say which the country could best
spare. The great value of clover as a
manurial plant and renovator of worn
out soils fully makes up for any def
cheney it may have as hay for horses
For cattle, especially for COWS in milk,
where its dusty character is not especial
ly objectionable, it is usually preferred
to timothy
1t is said that more than one hundred
species of clover are known to natural
lists, but IN this country only few are
cultivated, and of these the common red
trltoEum pratense is the species most
generally in use and for general pur-
poses the best of all. 1t is easily grown
on every properly drained soil. Soils
too much exhausted or too poor to
afford it nutriment naturally, by the use
Of coat Of barn yard manure to give it
a foOthold, can, by its persistent use, be
brought up to a condition of fertility
beyond any that can be obtained from
sowing any Of the natural grasses. In
furnishing vegetable mould and changing
hard, compact soils for the better it is
wholly uneXcelled.
Red clover is one of the most i'm
portant crops for soiling on account of
its rapid early growth and the arge
of excellent green food grown on
an acre. Care must be taken when pas
turing it while wet with dew or rain, as
cattle are liable to eat so much as to
cause bloating, sometimes causing death.
1t is wholly unsafe to turn them, when
quite hungry, into large growth of it
to eat their fill at any time until it has
been partially eaten down and they have
become accustomed to it's use Red
clover is not really pasture plant, and
its best results are realized by soiling or
cutting for hay and seed. 1t is usually
best sown in spring, with from twelve to
twenty pounds to the acre. according as
the soil may be loan or clay. Glover
should be cut as soon as the blossoms
assume a brownish hue, and the swath
should lie until we'll wilted, when it
should be turned over, but not scattered
Or spread, and when sufficiently dry be
taken to the barn. Great care should
be taken not to let it get caught out IN
protected i'll the rain.-Neo0 York World.