The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-19
Making a Pasture in a Grove.


7 have a grove in front and about my
ing lot of. The soils poor except in a few
low places, and these are grown up in
weeds. In d number of places the ber-
muda has IL very good hold and the Les
pedeza is pretty well scattered over the
three acres. How could 1 manage to get
the grass and clover to take possession of
the whole grove and make a good calf
pasture without spending more than a
few dollars? More than half of the land
is thinly covered with poor grass that
stock will not eat. One of my neighbors
calls it poverty" grass I only know it is
Of no account whatever. Could l afford to
manure this land so as>to make it produce
good grazing for calves, or sheep? What
would be the best manure to use, the best
grass to plant and when and how to plant ?
R. NJ. c.
If you own your place, as we assume
you do, and regard it as worth some lit
tie expenditure in the way of improving
It, we think it Will pay you to make the
Improvement you suggest, whether your
grove Is directly in front of your dwelling
or to the side or rear The land evidently
is very poor, and it will require consid-
cradle work in the way of blowing and
narrowing, and considerable in the way of
fertilizins, before it can be made to pro-
ouce anything of much value
II the trees are too thick in any place
or there are any inferior OF worthless
trees that are of no special value and vet
interfere with the growth of other trees
That you desire to retain, cut them out.
Between now and Christmas plow the
Iand several times, getting the pillow in d
little deeper each time. The first blowing
VIII have to be given Just after a soaking
rain. So far as the pillow and harrow can
90 IT, put the soil in good condition.
20 lar as manure is concerned, you are
not apt to apply too much. 1t is not prob
@ole that you have stable manure enough
10 give the land more than it needs. If
YOU can afford it, put fifty bushels
o. cotton seed more or less to the acre,
blowing them in at the first or second
IIoWlns- To supply potash, use two to five
hundred pounds of cotton seed hull
asheS' or if found more convenient use
wood ashes or the same amount of
NdImt Use plenty of nitrogen however
"s d manure. Cotton seed freely used will
supplyit.
AS to the grass to use, we doubt if there
- anything better to use than Bermuda.
bUIlng January procure plenty of roots,
ana early in February with j scooter
nloW run off furrows IS or 20 inches apart.
'Ho strew the root cuttings thickly along
III these burrows, and run a roller over
me burrows to cover the same or if you
0@hnot use roller cover with a board
AFTER disposing of the Bermuda SOW
loadcast two or three pounds of white
cover seed, and roll or brush the land
70 cover the seeds. The white clover is
preferable, but if you choose YOU may
use crimson clover (15 pounds per acre.. If
Gu VIII carry out these suggestions we
ueHeVe you will find the result satisfac-
~ VIII pay to get the land in good con
r-uon and to use an abundance of roots,
tllAg as many as YOU possibly can afford
80 as 10 insure a good stand
After the grass and clover gets a good
..drl Top dressings can be given from
.Lle to time in the early spring. and in
Nv" or three years the grove pasture
WHY be the best part of the farm.