Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-09-20
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Some Glover Questions Answered.

Dull county, u, asks some questions
about clover, with the request that 1
answer them through your columns.
He writes as follows:
1. 1 have a field of Mammoth clio.
yer stubble to cut for hay. My ex-
perience with this clover shows that
it makes no second crop the same
season, but do not know whether
or not it will make crop next year
If let it stand over. Can you tell =?
1 have grown the Mammoth clos
Yer for some years, and have known
three crops of seed cut in succession
from one seeding, but the first crop
was far the best, and from some
years Of experience / have concluded
that 1t is best with the common clo-
yer, or the mammoth, to let it stand
but one year. My reasons for this
are: First, that the clover makes its
best growth and most profitable
yield the first year, as both root and
top reach their full development,
and the land receives the greatest
benefit during this year. Second,
there is less danger of the multiplica-
tion of insects when the field stands
but one year. The danger of getting
both grub worms and cut worms in
our land is greatly increased when
the clover fields arc allowed to stand
two years and since the clover seed
nudge has gained residence in
Ohio, we cannot be too careful not to
encourage its propagation, and allow
ing the crop to stand two years GER
tainly gives them a good chance to
multiply. would therefore advise
that the field be put in some crop for
next year, and not allowed to stand
over.
9. l have another field of Mammoth
clover which 1 am trying to turn un-
der, but the growth is so heavy that
1 have poor success with it. L can
60 but few feet until the plow is
choked. Can you suggest any RENE
dy?
A heavy three-horse pillow with a
rolling cutter will probably enable
you to do good work, but if that field
was mine / should certainly burn the
clover off. The heaviest yield Of
wheat l have ever seen reported
from the State of Ohio was grown
where the owner worried for a day
or two with just such growth o.
Mammoth clover and finally set fire
to it, and the result was that he har
vested over sixty bushels of wheat t.
the acre. l read the account of it a
the time and it was afterwards veri
fed by Prof. Townshend. l would
not recommend burning as genera
practice, although 1 am not certain
but that it would be wise; / have
seen on my own and my neighbors
farms such excellent results from
burning wheat stubble that certain
ly should advise that it be tried. On,
member of the farmers club t
which belong spreads each year al
the straw he can spare on his whea
land after it is plowed, and burns i
off, and he gets uniformly good re
suits, much better he says than if h
should rot the same amount of stray
and spread the manure. You will
certainly kill all insects, and you will
find that the burning of the soil will
make it very fine and mellow, an,
the wheat will start as though it ha,
been dressed with fine manure.
have been roughly handled by som
of our writers before for recommend
ing this, but on all soils where
have tried it the result has justifie
it.
3. / notice that writers in the Coun
try Gentleman and also the Obi
Farmer state that to seed clover afte
clover is usually q failure, and m
experience confirms this. How Ion
after turning under the clover fc
wheat can successfully seed to clC
yer and timothy for meadow?
1 rarely seed wheat on clover, {
my rotation is either potatoes or Cor
after clover, but there is no difficult
in seeding to timothy and other graz
ses, and ] think on my soil I coul
get stand of clover after clover, bl
1 am sure that ] have no difficulcy
seeding with clover every other yea
and I have followed this rotation If
twenty years on my best land; but
have plowed down the clover aft
the first summers growth, not pastl
ring at all after harvest, and in tn
way I get crop of grain or potato'
every year, and a clover crop If
fertilizing once in two years. / al
quite sure that I get more benef
from q nln.,o,. $780,. - a,,N .