Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-05
FARM And DAIRY DEPARTM'T.
Weekly Review of Oregon
Agricultural Interests.

CLOVER AND CLOVER SEED AS A CROP
GREEN FEED FOR GROWING STOCK
Sol. Durbln, one of the largest farm
ers on Salem prairie, has forty acres OF
a second crop of red clover that has
gone to seed and will soon be cut for
threshiEg. Clover seed sells for five to
eight dollars bushel and costs one
dollar bushel to thresh. Mr.. Durbin
believes It can be raised here in favor
able season as well as anywhere and is
we'll prepared to cure 1t. A farmer near
Woodburn has clover huller and will
thresh it. We shall await the result
with intrest and shall report what the
outcome is. Clover that has been ruu
through a thresher still makes good
feed for all kinds Of stock and Mr.. Dur
bin ought have no trouble to get rid OF
1t. II clover seed can be successfully
made q crop in Oregon 1t will add an
other spoke to the wheel Of wealth that
must be ever on the roll Ia the future
II agriculture is to be made profitable.
Hay, pasture, fertilizer and seed in our
crop are combination in favor Of
clover that can be claimed for nothing
else. It is not sure that clover can not
be grown ON the Waldo Hills. 1t has
simply not been discovered how to
manage it. We have seen fine crops of
clover growing on the hills of the cosst
range and In Tillamook county. AS an
exterminator Of foul weeds and fern,
clover has no equal. AS pasture 1t is
excellent, and we have never heard Of
animals turned upon 1t being subject to
the blvat here that makes 1t almost a
dangerous pasture IN the eastern states.
There should be a great deal more
clover sown this winter than ever be-
fore as the possibilities OF good prices
for hog and cattle products are far
greater than for grains. Next to pease,
clover will add flesh and growth, bone
and muscle, TO young pigs faster than
other food. The beauty of it is, they
will harvest II themselves, and need
only q good fence TO mold them In.
Don't try to raise hogs without good
clover lot.
A SAMPLE CLOVER CROP.
Oregon farmers are now made up OF
fully one-half the men who learned
farming in the eastern states. Their
experiences and ideas of producing re-
suits are mingling with those of the
Oregonian rancher, and there Is good
reason why the knowledge Of the two
sets of individuals should supplement
one another. The eastern man will
have to abandon and unlearn great
deal and the Oregon bred farmer can
get hold OF some new things. Clover
crops are q bone of contention the
world over. Both the crop and cloYer
seem to easily take root In the fiat lands
Of the Willamette valley. On the hills
nobody has yet been able to produce
crop Of clover In this part Of the state.
A year ago February neighbor sowed
clover with oats and winter wheat.
Out Of that seeding he got crop OF
both grains, pastured the land last fall
and this spring the wheat threw up n
stand four feet high from the roots Of
the old wheat, with clover all through
1t two feet high, cutting over hye tons
OF feed 10 the acre. IL had sprink-
ling Of wild oats through IL that made
II very toothsome hay and on the same
land came a second crop of clover that
was knee deep by the first OF August.
IL was cut and the entire field is now
green with clover, IN manure were
put on, II would grow great crops OF
clover next year A large held OF this
would pasture mllch cows until New
Years. But, better still, let II be
pl0wed under this winter and you have
grand natural fertilizer. On the land
B0wD 10 Oats and clover last year two
nae crops of clover resulted aud tho
land 10 now fine pasture. Here were
two crops of wheat, one crop Of oats,
aud two crops VI cloYeT, and the land
snnched, ~ the result Of sowing clover
with sraip. Friends Of clover need DOT
be discouraged Ia Oregon, Thls wss
lhe common red yaTlely,
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