The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-26
CORN AND CLOVER.
Corn and Glover Go Together, and Eastern
Farmers Should Grow More Corn.

Corn and Clover Go Together, and Eastern
Farmers Should Grow More Corn.
The experience of 1894 as well as 9th
ers that have preceded it shows that
the corn belt is very uncertain reh-
ance for the production of this staple.
All concede that under the influence Of
favoring seasons the farmers Of Iowa,
Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska can grow
corn at cheaper rates than it can be af-
forded by eastern farmers. Most farmers
in New England, and to some extent in
New York, have acted on this belief.
Their planting of corn has been restrict
ed for many years to what is needed for
home use Lately many Of them have
not grown enough even for this, and a
considerable amount of western Dent
corn has been sold for stock feeding
purposes to farmers who thought they
could devote their land to more profita-
BILE uses. This may be good manage
ment so long as the western corn season
is favorable. But three years out Of
four some part Of the corn crop in the
corn exporting states is destroyed. Then
the farmer who has depended on buying
corn is obliged to pay much higher prices
than the corn would cost to produce on
his own farm. American Cultivator
says:
The eastern farmer finds double adj
vantage in growing what corn he needs.
Cheap as the grain may be, yet the
purchased supply lacks the coarse feed
for stock in the corn fodder that the
home grown product furnishes. Il is
also for farmers who are some distance
from the railroad station an expensive
job to bring the western corn supply
from the railroad depot to the barnyard.
If the corn can be grown at home, there
will be in addition to the grain yield
enough corn fodder to pay large part
of the cost of cultivation.
Corn besides is grain that does not
exhaust the land as do the small grains
in proportion to the bulk Of its nutri-
ment.
Corn is much more certain crop &c
the eastern farmer than it is on the
great corn areas west Of the lakes. De-
spite the advantage Of cheaper land cas-
lily titled at the west, we believe that
some corn can be grown on every east
ern farm, and if used in feeding stock
the farm will produce as much of every
thing else as it would without the corn.
It is crop that furnishes more feed per
acre than can be grown with anything
requiring no more labor.
Corn is crop, too, that if we'll Guilt
waited is an excellent preparation fo1
clover seeding In like manner clover
ley plowed under makes the best prepa-
ration for good corn or hoed crop.
Glover and corn naturally go together.
Each helps the other, and the farmer
who grows one without it's mate loses
part of the advantage that he is justly
entitled to-
The eastern farmer has not made too
much of clover, but he needs to grow
more corn. The two crops make better
feeding ration than either alone. Clio
yer is a heterogeneous plant, and it has
the power Of getting it's nitrogen large
" from the atmosphere. Corn is a car
bonaceous food, and the carbon for both
its grain and stalks is exclusively taken
from the atmosphere. In these two
crops, then, the farmer can grow feed
for stock without much soil exhaustion
if he will return to the land the mineral
plant food that these crops take from it