Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-13


! good crop, ripe and out the last week
in August. Last spring spring othed
lit both ways and sowed it to wheat
and seeded It to clover, red clover and
alsiRe mixed. The wheat was sown
at one b1lshel per acre, and yielded
| sixteen and one-haM bushels. The
clover seed was sown at two quarts
per acre, and grew two feet high, and
was perfect mat on the ground The
wheat was five feet tall, and when
cut left the stubbble eighteen inches
high, and yet it cut of six inches oi
clover heads. 5f &
| The only work Of preparation that
THE field got last spring was spring.
itoothing both ways, and sowing it with
a broadcast seeder. s&s
The wheat and clover were mixed
before putting them In the seeder box.
The harrow was not used at ali. The
amount of clover or mixed grass seeds
to SOW to- the acre is from one quart
to six or eight quarts and the farmer
I'who starts in : with two quarts will
never be foolish enough to SOW six on.
eipht quarts, for when he looks at his
crop from two quarts he will see that
if it was four times thicker on the
ground it would not be good, for 1t
would be dwarfed and sod bound to
start with. s:sis d e. Il; 49, -
/ When the farmer wishes to seed
down his back 40' or other tract Of
his farm, and finds that clover seed
costs about $40 bushel, and the
speaker at the farmers institute. said
six quarts to the acre should be sown
toget-a good catch, and stand for hay
or pasture, he finds himself up against
"a cash expense that he is unable to
meet, and the clover hay, pasture and
benefits as fertilizer, are put over url-
til next year, while if the institute
man had said two quarts OF clover
seed to the acre is enough, and less
will do, the farmer would have been
helped and encouraged in the line Of
good farming.
\ Rather ithan put OFF the clover seed
ing another year he had better SOW
one quart to the acre, and he will be
surprised at the good results B II he
sows his grain with broadcast seeder,
he can mix the clover with the grain
before putting 1t in ohe box. 81
Glover or other grass seeds should
not be mixed with the grain: that is
sown with a drill. because 1t pubs the
small seeds too deep In the soil. These
small seed need no covering, while a
drill puts them all down one, two and
three inches. To use a drill it must
have q grass seed attachment.
To SOW one quart Of clover to the
acre, instead OF six or eight, some
farmers may wish for more authority
before they will try It, So we4will take
the year book of the department 81
agriculture and get the figures of the
number OF red. clover seeds III q
mound, also timothy and do some
figuring 5s .:=
Their are us, 900 seeds IN one pound
of red clover. Two pounds OF clover
will be one quart, 55S, 200. seeds. There
is 1850 square feet in an acre, and
that will give twelve seeds Tor plants
to each square foot Every farmer
knows that twelve clover plants can;
not flourish On one foot Of ground OF
ordinary farm lands Three on five
would grow better and have as much
Tor more foliage and roots.
Timothy has ], IN, 900 seeds in a
pound, alsike 20, 900, white clover
740, 900.
RI Sow grass seeds on solid and com
pact ground. Sow as early ID ths
string as possible. Sow on the top Of
fresh worked ground. *
That Macaroni Wheat at Will's
Seed Store. See it and You will hui
| it.
Tho Original LAXATIVE Cough DyYuz
- Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar.
III expess all cold from the system bg
acting as q cathartic on the bowels.
Kennedy 's Laxative Honey and Tar ii
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