The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-31

in this. Setting a hen and changing a
dozen eggs into as many chicks comes, per
haps, as near making money like usury as
farmers are often permitted e. do. Bat tho
care of the hen and chicks costs a good deal.
With a heavy seeding or clover in March or
April on q we!l-ftted seed bed, nature can
be relied upon TO do the rest.
How much is good seeding OF clover
sown last spring worth now! 1t depends
much on locality, for fertility is worth much
more near a good market than il is where
its products cannot be ID It is worth
more for some crops tnau it Is for others.
Fer corn or potatoes it is worth more than
1t can be for any small grain crop These
cultivated crops double the value Of any
kind of fertilizer applied to them. But the
other day a farmer, looking over e we'll
seeded clover field from which a wheat crop
had Just been taken, remarked that he
would not taSe SD per acre and have the
field left without seeding. The seed cost
perhaps 81 % per acre, as clover seed was
dear last spring. Here vas gain of - for
l since last March. II requires O good
breed OF sitting hens to beat such IA record
as this.
Glover seed ought to be sown far more
generally than it is, even if the land is 10
be ploWed within year or even within
few months. We have known farmers to
venture seeding Of clover on spring grain
"AOA NHSJ AittntlGu " DlOW dEu oJh W1LlNcl
wheat on the stubble after the oats or bar
ley was harvested. Sometimes the seeding
got In this way will be good enougl to
change the farmers calculations about plow-
ing it up in the fall. We have known
others on well-drained land to SOW clover
seed on buckwheat, and even In corn after
the last cultivation in July. The corn
shades the young clover from the hot sun
shine, and often a good stand is thus Sc
cured. 1t is plowed under next spring, of
course, but probably no cheaper fertility Is
thus secured to tho soil than from this
trfiing expenditure for clover seed.
1T is, we think, true generally wherever
clover can be made to grow. that it gives
more fertility for less outlay either of
money or labor THAI any other way Of
manuring land. 1t is above all good basis
on which to add other fertilizers, as its
green substance keeps the soil moist and
thus gives value to mineral menures that
would otherwise be inert and worthless
Thus it is the practice of some market gar
deners to seed a certain part OF their land
every year with clover. These do not try
to pasture the clover or NOW it for hay.
The green manure is more evenly dis
tributed than they could distribute stable
manures, and at no cost except a chain at
tached to the plow to bend the clover under
the pillow and thus insure its complete SUBJ
version as the land is plowed.n
Let those deny it that so choose. but we do
not fear to make the statement that south
ern farming, too, will never rise to the great
level of its opportunities until clover (of one
kind or another obtains the cons deration
that it deserves. Let those who already
know the value of the ''crim son" Tor scarlet
or the "cur' clover say what they are
worth in their food and manurial qualities.
The pea is good enough in its way for sum
mer time, but something is wanted now 10
grow in winter that will not only enrich
soil badly in need OF enriching, but also
furnish early food or hay on pasture.