The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-08-01
Dyer Growing
/ On Light Soil,
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clover too much care cannot he
taken in purcl a ing seed. The
81 advice is often given to buy i'"n
q aneighbor and thus know what
kinds Of weeds are hing orouGh :
j onto the farm, and to redL c
chances OF bringing in ANY new
ones. | have found that this Will
not alwaAs lead To- good results.
4 few wears aenmy iatbHr houg 1T
seed OF farmer living about a
'nsInlle distant, and dt:.rWard found
lhat a part ofthe neighboc's farm
y was we'll set with Canada thistle.
/ Luckily it seemed that the cioN er
field must have been compara-
4 lively tree from them. inr
Canada thistlcs came up in only
one place in the field where the
clover seed was Sown. Since
then in buying seed | have felt
that II would be safer TO buy of
a reliable dealer than to buy even
OF d neighbor. 1t is important
4 that farmer be able torecog nizc
j at sight the seeds of the more
i common and dangerous weeds
4 liable to he found in clover and
grass seed.
I The soil OF my fathers farm
was rich, loose lean of lime
stone formation. The ground
dried quickly on top TO depth of
an inch or more. For several
years my father sowed early and
depended On the action of frost
to cover the seed. The result
was invariably a failure to get
stand. The clover often came up
nicely, but few hours wind and
sunshine would dry ont the sur
face soil and killtfc plants. FL
nallv we began t. SOW later ard
barrow tAe seed IN, and by ooing
So nearly Away gotta good stand.
do not know how it would do to
harrow such fine seed in on u
heavy clay soil. Ii might be COW
cred 80 deeply that it would not
be able to push through. When
seeding tored clover, heavy clay
soil, or anv soil that is inclined to
be wet, it is we'll to SOW d little
alsikc clover with 1t. One part
of al~lke to two or three of red
clover, is about right, Red clio
YER winter-kili> badly on vet soil
and the best remedy would be to
drain the soil; but if this cannot
be done, an application of coarse
strawy manure will protect it
quite good deal.
Glover is generally sown with
nurse crop, and. on the whole
| consider it the pest plan, al
though there may be special cases
in which is desirable tosoW alone.
This years experience in sowing
alone on peace of very light,
sandy soil, if the object is TO get
a stand of clover 10 the exclusion
OF every thing else, the best plan
is to SOW thinly TO rye in the fall
and to clover in the spring. Then
Wnen ire rye Is ten or tNeIEe
inches high, mowitoff. By doing
this the young clover always has
a protection against the sun and
hot, drying winds. BY keeping
the rye mowu eff it will not rob
the clover OF food and moisture.
The clipping will benefit the
| clover. In most cases it j. adj
4 visahle to seed to clover with the
regular crop in order not too lose
the use of the land for year.
Through this section this is gen.
orally wheat or rye; some farm
ers SOW with oats but have al
ways found this very uncertain
Oats seem to rob the clover OF
moisture. have seeded with
oats several times and never got
stand but once, which, however,
was as perfect as lever raw, hut
it was wet season. The state
of the weather and the amount OF
hav TO be made determine, to a
great xtent, the time of cutting