New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-02-26
Hon. 7. B. Terry, Hudson, Ohio. spoke
GROWING CLOVER. 4

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GROWING CLOVER
Thirty odd years ago.. went on to q
farm in Ohio, SO run down that i would
scarcely grow weeds. One acre yielded
forty bushels q Zig and little potatoes
mostly little. The previous years corn
crop was not worth harvesting. Ny
neighbors called it . God crop Yet,
in ten or twelvs years We we're growing
per acre from 333S to SO bushels Of wheat,
200 to ESQ bushels Of Understandable
potatoes and from four to- five tons If
clover hay, in two cutting. These were
larger crops than the soil had ever pro.
duced. By accident some clover seed
was sown the first spring; and IS the sea-
son proved to be wet, there was fair
stand Of clover. When moved we got
more hay to the acre; and when fed to
the cows, we got more milk. Later on
a discovered that corn grown on tins
clover sod, yielded equally well with 9
thinly MANFRED timothy sod. This, then,
was the result of growing clover; more
hay to the acre; better hay, the cows
said $50 land increased fertility after
ward. II.
At considerable risk and expense Iar-
ranged my land for q rotation Of crops
in the following order. namely, clover,
potatoes, wheat; continuing this rotation
for many years. For three or four years
the gain was slight; in six or eight years
we were pretty we'll satisied but with
each successive period OF rotation the
gain confined until we were actually
growing as large crops as could stand on
1.-The ground. .
| Now, how was this donca There are
three princlpal elements needed to in
crease soil fertility, namely; nitrogen,
phosphoric acid, and potash. IL you
burn anything, like brush or stubble, the
nitrogen goes into the air, while the
Iphospheric acid and potash remain. The
air is the great storehouse Of nitrogen.
Eighty per cent Of the air we breathe is
free nitrogen. Thousands of dollars
worth at market prices is over every
farm. The phosphoric acid and potash
being mineral matter, remain on the
earth. The mission of the clover plant
is to feed Oh the nitrogen and leave it in
the soil in an available form for other
crops. Corn, oats, wheat, timothy etc,
cannot use nitrogen until it has been
made available by clover and similar
plants. Glover feeds largely in the sub
soil, striking its roots deep, down, some
times six, eightor even more feet, pump
ing up the phosphoric acid and potash
to the surface where it can be used by
following crops. On the roots Of the
clover are little nodules, sometimes err
roneously called seeds, which are factories
in which many thousands of microscopic
workers convert the free nitrogen of the
air into nitric acid, in which form it is
used by plants.
! A we'll arranged rotation of crops, in
which clover is grown regularly every
third or fourth year is one of series Of
steps by which a very barren and run
down piece of land can in tine be
brought to high degree Of fertility.
Mr.. Forest Henry Of olmstead county
spoke about
SWINE: BREEDING AND FEEDING.
Raising ho g 8 successfully depends
largely upon the interest the farmer
takes in the business. If the ordinary
careless methods are followed, four years
out Of five he will make failure at il,
when considered from the standpoint 81
economy. Many hogs are put upon the
market each year which have cost their
|owners more than their SALE price. No
matter how fine the animal may be, al
/ : hog, if more has been put IN him than
lean be got out Of, him, the business
|is not 9 success. Economy Of produce
ton Is . most important law in the
rearing of swine. This does no. mean
limiting the animal N its ration, but the
use Of foods produced cheaply a sec
|ond law in successful swine RAISING is to
have healthy animals. The heslthy hog
IS the growing hog, and the tucker he
5lgrows, itnot oyercrowded, the better,
Exercise is % essential to the proper de-
5Evelopment of . hog a. sof q human being.
The limited quarters Of the average hog
I[pen and yard not sufficient 10 should
have the run Of y pasture, not only sfor
| ! part Of the time. but the entlrs ysar.
4 third LAWS 60 breed from mature