The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-24

same manner; but no one attempted to
raise any quantity. As / was not In the
dairy business and had no silo, I had to
devise some other means 70 use IL. az 1
did not want to turn It under for uanuDe
BY cutting and giving plenty OF sun /
found II made an excellent hay, rellshed
by all kinds Of stock. so I have, each
year. made my entire crop into hay II
IS fully equal every way, when properly
cured, TO the best timothy hay l ever saw.
and with favorable weather.. not harder
TO make into good hay than any other
crop. Should be cut when the head is be-
ginning TO turn dark Let stay TIL wilted
then rake into cocks and left till fully dry.
DO not haul when dew is on II, or 1t will
be dark. The weat Their is usually cool at
this time and II requires longer time IN
the field to cure. But II light rain falla
on II when just cut, very little harm will
result unless the rain Is a continued one.
am told by men who know. that a, IL
the ideal crop to seed with winter oats
and cut for ensilage 20 feed during ther
summer My horses. COWS and hogs will
always eat II and look and do better on n
than any other food. 1t certainly offers
the strongest inducements to owners AZ
poor lands for their cheap and rapid i'm.
pfoVement. Where stable uanue is Lack
ing, use 800 to 500 pounds of cheap ferti-
lizer and seed Crimson clover and Won
have the best thing in the world 10 feed
poor, WORKOUT lands on. No clover will
grow on as poor lands as this, but none
delights or responds better to kind treat-
ment. Seed the middle or last OF August
here, and even later IT often does equally
as well. Sow from six to eight quarts Of
seed per acre, put in with a smoothing
harrow on well prepared land and roll
Hot suns and dry weather often XIII
good deal of It, but this is no drawback
believe 1t needs rotation and would
not seed 1t every year on the same ground.
let some crop come in between II. 1t pos
sesses SO many advantages over red Clover
that seed but little Of the latter now. 1t
is the ideal crop to fit in for the fruit or
vegetable grower. May be seeded in or
chards, vineyards, berry fields, corn or as
catch crop after other crops have been
taken off. 1t grows all winter and is ready
TO pillow under, cut for hay or feed green
In time to follow with other crops. What
can be better or more convenient? The
root system Is perfect. 1 saw a single
plant with roots about four feet long last
January at our horticultural meet
ing. From experience, l am of the opili-
ion that II is a waste to pillow the en-
tire plant under unless very small, I
have seen better results from cutting and
blowing under the sod, than from a
growth two feet high. So / say, utilize
the top for hay or ensilage and plow
down the sod. AS to the yield / am hot
prepared 20 say nut UeleNe from lHo
same land IL is double that of red clover.
At least / cut from about eight acres In
a peach orchard last year eleven big two
horse loads of hay, any of which would
have weighed a ton. / did not cut but
two swaths for the rake between the
rows either, and this clover had no fertil-
zer of any kind to make Il grow. l. have
near seventy-hve acres L expect to cut for
hay this season 1t is just beginning TO
bloom now and promises well. A friend
Of mine harvested a crop of seed from
an eleven acre field the past season and
then planted with corn and raised LILO
bushels of ears Of corn, as nice as 1 ever
saw, with no other manure than dead
clover roots. BY all means seed In the
summer. and put the seed in the ground.
not on top Of it. If you seed ii in the
spring 1t will fail and you viii likely con-
denim it. DO not seed with wheat like
red clover or with grass seed for pasture.
for it is an annual and not suited for this
purpose