Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-23
TIMOTHY AND RED GLOVER.
Timely Hints About the Two Great For
 age Crops of the Country.

Timely Hints About tile Two Great For
 age Crops of the Country.
 Timothy may properly be placed at the head of all the meadow plants for produc- ing hay of the finest quality. It is peren- nial ill character, and when well estab- lished lasts several years without the ne- cessity of blowing up and reseeding Tim othy, however, is not good pasture grass, from the fact that it will not bear close cropping as well as many others. Its chief excellence consists its pro duction of hay of tbe purest and finest quality for all general purposes and espe- cially for horses. in which it has no rival Wherever timothy fourishes it is uni versally preferred for hay and sells for the highest price.
 Timothy is best adapted to partially moist peaty or claycy soil, and does not thrive so well on light, sandy lands When sown alone half a bushel of seed to the acre is the rule; it may be sown in either spring or fall, but autumn sowing is the more common practice. It is ad- vised to sow seed not more than one year old.
 
 seed is to sprinkle some on 8 hot fire shovel, when, if it mostly burns up with out q lively popping it should be rejected. Another good way to test not only timothy seed, but the seed of other grasses, is to sow q little in box of fine earth and keep it warm and damp few days until their character is determined. Growing the crop for it's seed is quite common ill the western states, and Chicago is the leading primary market.
 Although red clover is not, strictly speaking, grass, no true grass is en- titled to a higher rank unless it be timothy; and, indeed if we were wholly re- stricted to the use of only one of the two, it would be Q difficult matter to say which the country could best spare. The great value of clover as msnurial plant and renovator of worn out soils fully makes up for any deficiency it may have as hay for horses. For cattle especially cows il milk, where it's dusty character is no. especially objectionable, it is usually pre- ferred to timothy
 Botanists claim that there are more than 100 species of clover, but in this country only few are cultivated, and oi these the common red clover (trifoliun, pratensc) is the species must generally ir use, and for general purposes is the best l of all. It is easily grown on every prop erly drained soil. Soils too much ex hausted or too poor to afford clover its nutriment naturally with the addition oi a dressing of barnyard manure to give il 8 foot hold, will, by it's persistent use. be brought up to condition of fertility, be yond any that can be obtained from sow ing any of the natural grasses.
 In furnishing vegetable mold ant changing hard, compact soils for the better, red clover is wholly uneXcelled It is one of the most important crops fol soiling on account of it's rapid, early growth and the large amount of excellent green food grown on an acre.
 Care must be observed when pasturing red clover while wet with dew or rain, a. cattle are likely to eat enough of it tC cause bloating, which not unfrequently results in the death of the animal. It is 4 in fact, unsafe at any time to turn cattle when hungry into a large growth O.