Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-29

also OF the diversified farm with
plenty of stock on the farm. He
said it was best to keep stock on the
farm, and we believe that 10 true for
the Wisconsin farmer
To feed that stock, We have two
great crops, the corn crop and the
clover crop. and We believe that the
clover cr,p IL next in importance to
the corn crop as . feeding crop. and
that outside Of Its value as feeding
crop, 1t has q value as a fertilixins
crop. The clover crop should be on
every farm and In every rotation VI
crops it should occupy place. it,
value to the land on which 1t grows
is well known, and it should be grown
in rotation, go that all parts Of the
farm may be benefited.
Fertiiizing Value Of Glover.
Now, we believe that the fertilizing
value of the clover crop is larger
than is generally supposed. At the
Experiment Station recently over In
Michigan, farmer was requested to
plant an acre of the different kinds
Of clover on his farm and then to send
the crop after It was grown to the
station for analysis. both the top ami
the root, and in the Medium Red
clover they found $2456 value in fer
tility. OF course the whole acre was
not sent, but a square yard was dug
up, root and top. and sent 20 the Ex-
pertinent Station, and that was the
result they found.
II we had our manurial charts here,
they would show us that there arc
about $500 worth of fertility in
ton of clover hay and that it is worth
three-quarters of that in manure
after it has been fed to the animal.
We believe that ton OF clover hay,
at present prices, is worth about 81 90
CT $3.50, and that we could get two
tons Of clover hay per acre and that
would give us in feeding value about
$500, and then If we add three-quar-
tiers of that for the fertilizing value,
perhaps $1,000 or $1,000 more, there
would still be one-third of that crop
under the ground that we would not
harvest at all, which would remain
in the soil and fertilize it, thus keep
ing the humus in the soil, which Is a
very important element, and alto
gether good crop Of clover is worth
to the farmer from $4,000 to $4,000 an
acre.
lts Feeding Value.
We know it is a very valuable
feeding crop. because 1t contains 80
much of the element of protein, which
is the element in feeding crops which
costs the most, and the clover plant
contains largely of it, much more
than timothy or the other grasses,
and so we believe that the clover
plant and the clover crop to the Wis
consin farmer is very important
crop.
How to Grow Clover.
There has been considerable CON-
plant about the failure to get
clover catch, because in the summer
season after the grain crop has been
cut OF 1t has been found that lhs
young clover plants dry up and there
IS more failure In that way than there
10 in the winter killing, which in
former years used to be about the
only way that We lost the catch. But
we think that with live stock and
the farmer handling his manures AZ
he should, applying them on all the
portions of the farm and keeping 1t
in good cultivation, and the soil we'll
supplied with humus. that we will
avoid the summer killing Of the young
clover plant. Farmers in the south
western counties OF Wisconsin, some
Of those which have grown corn con-
tinuously, exhausting the humus from
the soil by continuous cultivation,
have found out that they cannot
grow clover any more and they want
to know II their land is clover sick.
/ believe that is what causes clover
sickness, lack Of humus in the soil.
Clover az a Gatherer Of Moisture,
Humus and Nitrogen.
want to refer again to an ex-
pertinent conducted by Mr.. George r.
Powell. fruit grower, not in this
state. who used clover for a covar
plant in an orchard. Nothing was
removed from the orchard but fruit.
no other crop was removed. dis
orchard was kept in good cultivs.
ton until about the FIRST or the mid
die Of July and then it was sown with
red clover, which remained on the
ground through the winter until the
next spring, when 1t was chopped up
and cultivated into the soil and the
cultivation continued again until mid
summer. This was repeated fu
three years; a section OF that soil
was dug up, six inches in depth, it
was weighed to see how much mois.
ture 1t contained, then it was dried
for the same purpose and a section
of the soil in an adjoining field. be
same kind Of soil, but on which crops
had been removed and no clover had
been grown, and they were compared,
and this was the result; that on m