Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-04-11

you IL | had not more ex perience
than With this one lot. Iendeayor
to seed IN pease and crimson clover
every year from tifsy to sixsy bush.
els. These crops are both excel
lent and | cannot say which | con-
slider the better as they blend so
sell together. pease being sum.
mer crop, and should be seeded
not later than the middle Of June
II intended to be followed with
crimson clover. aud the crimson
clover seeded not later than the
last Of September. These crops
furnish all the organic matter ne.
cessary to prepare the land for q
crop. Thecrops stand both drought
and excess Of rain better. the orga.
mic matter holds the moisture in
dry weather, aud keeps the land
sufficiently porous TO allow the
water to sink. thus preventing the
crops from drowning when there il
too much rain. OF course these
green crops are dependent very
much on favorable seasons for a
heavy growth and particularly the
crimson clover, as If the winter is
unpropitious and long drawn out,
the growth will not be so heavy.
An application Of say 100 pon nds
of land plaster, combined with say
IS pounds of Nitrate Of Soda broad
casted to the acre abou. the first of
March will greatly accelerate the
growth aud almost dou BILE the Yield.
Land thus treated will soon become
so rejuvinated and crop producing
as to encourage the farmer in bis
efforts to greater improvements |
have studiously avoided mention
ing the value Of these crops for
grazing purposes, as think land
in this impoverished condition
should have the ben. fit of the entire
growth, for il 10 an indisputable
fact that oil that is grazsd is that
much taken from the land. Some
writer's suggest that it 10 better to
NOV these crops. and return them
to the land IN the fora OF manure,
but this method would confine You
TO only few acres Of that from
which it was moved, therefore
prefer, as stated before, to allow
the land to have the full benefit of
the entire growth until it is suffi-
GENTLY improved to admit Of this
additional tax. | recognize that
these crops of clover aud pease are
very valuable as forage as we'll as
hay crop, and that they can be pro-
fitably seeded for these purposes
alone. read q very interesting
article the other day in the South
ern Planter" upon the subject of
improving the soil in which is given
the result of Prof. Patterson's g ex.
perience with the above green crops,
and quotes from q Bulletin from
the Maryland Experiment Station
OF tests made by him in the use Of
different forms of Phosphate Ferti.
lizers, soluble md insolu BILE, and
the result was that following green
crops, insoluble Phosphoric Acid
has produced more pounds OF crop
than the Phosphoric Acid in the
soluble or reverted form, costing
about one half, and that by the use
OF pease, crimson clover aud other
leguminous crops which gather
from the atmosphere the needed
plant food, ingredient plant food,
nitrogen, these elements working
in the soil, and through the action
Of microbes aud the growing crops.
produce the needed acids TO dissolve
the phosPhates and potash. of which
all soils are generally we'll supplied,
and in this way make Of the farm
itself q complete fertilizer factory,
and crop producer. This theory
OF Professor Patterson's / believe
isentirelY correct. His conclusions
know are correct as have had
experience in the same line with
the result he has reached. OF
course Scientists must solve these
mysteries and give plausible reasons,
but his alIusion to the microbes is
q little too rich for my blood.
have been able to utilize cats and
even rats bat not anything so inf
nitesimally small as microbes.
would advise the farmers TO
read carefully the bulletins issued
by the Maryland Experiment Sta
ton which are replete with infor-
nation and good suggestions, and
at the same time 1 would ask that