The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-01-19
GRASS AND GLOVER.
suggestions Relating to Early Seeding and
tho Handling OF Seed.

tho Handling OF Seed.
adopted the rule OF early sowing
about ten years ago, after having made |
some disastrous failures from late sow
ing. Farmers on clay land can not de-
pend on narrowing in the spring for not
more than once in three or four years
will the land get dry enough to harrow
before the wheat is too large TO have
harrow pass overit. Think more than
half the farmers in the country will tell
Won that clover seed sown early will be
killed by freezing, and yet little in-
vestigation would show that there is
more danger of late sown clover being
killed, for the simple reason that there
has been no freeze to cover ii, and its
sprouts lie directly on the surface. and
ON account Of not being covered it starts
sooner than the seed WHICH was sown
earlier and has been we'll covered by
frost.
In regard to the handling of seed
clover. we can not lay down a set OF
rules which are neyor to be deviated
from. There is no difficulty whatever
in hulling the mammoth clover from
the field, as it is cut the last of July or
first of August, when the days are long
and the sun hot, and two or three days
will dry it out perfectly after the heayi-
est rain. With the medium or common
red clover which must often be threshed
as late rs October threshing from the
| field is very uncertain and unsatisfac-
| tory, and in neighborhpod where near
| ly every farmer grows clover seed, and
machines are scarce. the farmer will
| often lose his crop unless he stacks 1T
| or puts It under cover. In the fall OF
| 1886 there were thousands of acres OF
i clover cut for seed in radius OF ten
miles Of my farm. and not threshed ut
all. because the machines could not get
around to it. Often Il machine could
not run until after noon on. account OF
heavy dews followed by n cloudy morn
| ing; and light rain, If followed by
cloudy weather. would keep the ma
chine idle for two or three days.
should have lost my little crop of six
acres if | had not stacked it, but hav-
ing it stacked and perfectly dry, the
machine came and we ran it through
before the dew had dried off on the
neighboring farm where the clover
was in the swath
There is no difficulty in stacking
clover so as to keep the water out, but
the stack must be covered with some
other material. Carry the sides of you
, stack up perfectly straight and built
!, the stack square at the ends. Make II
only twelve feet wide and as long as il
necessary, and top it out with slop'
, towar, the prevailing winds. Then la.
{ at tho top and also at the lower edge
four by four studding and put boar'
: roof on it, the boards living directly OIL
the clover and being nailed lightly L
( the studding. Arranged in this wal
4 clover will keep dry and the huller cal
n come directly after rain and TIRES
4 while your neighbor waits for his
n dry. II will probably be cheaper an
better in the long run to build barrack
|. convenient to the barn yard, 50 tn
!. clover straw can DO run into tho var
d and then the barracks can be file
r with corn fodder for winter use. Sue
Il barracks need have no floor except
j temporary one or rails or poles TO kee
Is the clover or fodder from the groun'
= and can be used TO shelter the too
temporarily in the summer. or for dri
ing under with q load when sudd,
l. rain comes up. 1t win also be ve'
rs convenient for curing out beans
: broom corn OF any o. the catch Gro
T. grown on the farns w y Brsiv,h
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