The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-07
HOW TO GET GLOVER TO GROW

sowed scme on a field where cotton has
been grown for twenty five successive
years, but the success was very poor,
and he said that one of his neigbors has
some that has grown only about eight
inches high and so thin that it will not
hide rabbit" This is only the old
idea 50 prevalent among cur farmers
OF getting something Gus Of nothing
The land IN his section is naturally
very deficient in potash, and il there
IS one form Of plant food that clover
viii nos do without it Is potash. Tne
same sort OF SUCCESS has bo-u had 0y
m-ny farmers in all our c@a5C region,
and to them I would rccclmsu0 the
experience sent me by one VINO has
taken my C1vi3a and sucoas God. lie
@ri..~: Pour years ago the station
sent M about cEep3und o. clover sesd,
TLluh [ zOwed Oh 2hea5 lad aid har
r0wau il IL about the Last Il November.
OF cc@~s5 the late sowing was q failure
TIE following August [ determined to
try again end s0Wed about me 1s6 Of
August about an acre on a pea fallow.
The laLd was our finest gray tobacco
land, only two gears from the original
forest. was coLfda Mt Of SUCCESS, but
was doomed to disappointment, fur
while had good stand and it passed
through the winter all right, it made g
very poor growth. I was disguised and
gave it up as no good for this section.
But I determined to find the reason
Why, and now l have my reward, after
reading ali you have written on the
suAj ct for three years, I remembered
nay failure and studied the plant, as
we'll as my land. found the land WO
fully deficient in potash, the very life
Of clover. Then I knew why I had
failed. I bought seed and IN August
last, aftor I had dug my early potatoes,
on which 1 had used very liberal
quantity Of high grade sulphate Of pot
ash, I sowed the seed. To day it is TWO
seet high and az thick as il can stand.
IA another field of wheat stubhle that
l had broken for winter oats l sowed
one and g half bushels Of oats, fifteen
pounds Of crimson clever seed and 500
pounds Of kainiU per acre. Tais feId
beats anything in this section. The
oats ere about four feet high and il
bloom (M4y 23), eno the clover is shout
two ana q half feet high. 7 an very
luch pleased with the combination Of
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MODE OF using ter,lAz-T8 Is 70 apply
them TO the crop that Is G1lDg TO I'M
prove the l&2d' ana at the same tlme
mako an eT~r4 crop OF tora69 20 iueo
STOCK and MAKE manure. Inc 8rea'
lack II ell our old lan@5 IS phospnoTic
&CEl and potash, and IL I5 useless TO u. =