The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

field and then pillow it back. One OF
the prime objects in growing clover Is
to add nitrogen to the soil, to put in
certain amount Of humus and to
Improve the texture OF 1t. You will
not get around to the different parts
Of your farm with clover often enouhg
by simply taking the one crop and
blowing 1t under and I am inclined to
the belief that all Dakota farmers can
afford to sacrifice the second growth
to pillow under for a green manure crop
rather than TO try to save it for hay.
Our soils need that much additional
fertility and humus and the soil text
ure will be improved by its incorpora-
ton.
Occasionally some one wants to
grow a grass crop for the sake Of get
weed seeds that do not retain their
growing strength In the ground more
than two or three years. Where this
is the desire Of the grower. he can
mix the seed with timothy, putting in
four to six pounds Of clover, which
will leave enough timothy plants after
the clover has killed out to make a
reasonably good hay crop This en-
ables the grower to leave his land in a
grass crop for two years without any
serious loss in hay production
When seeded alone clover Is com
monty put in at the rate of liz to Is
pounds of seed per acre or about a
peck by measure 1t should either be
sown broadcast or with a hand seeder
which will distribute ii evenly, or put
in with a grass seeder attachment
with the drill. Mixing the seed with
the grain in the seeder box gives it
two disadvantages f1rst--it puts in the
seed too deep and second 1t mixes the
clover seed in tire thick drill row Of
barley or wheat plants, where it must
fight for sunlight, water, plant food
and all the features which are re-
CURED for a plant to thrive instead
of a large portion Of IL falling In the
six inch interval space, between the
drill rows where 1t can have sunlight
air and plant food to itself, until 1T
gets a foothold and until 1t Is out
grown by the grain. A single time
over the land with a peg tooth harrow
after the grass seed is sown is sum
Client to cover 1t.
Where there is trouble to secure a
stand of clover by ordinary seeding. Il
am convinced by trials which / made
a number of years ago that the follow
ing method viii prove more successful.
Put In timothy and clover seed with an
ordinary grain drill set 60 run as shall
low as 1t can be made to do and In
going crosswise of the grain drills aft
er the former have been seeded, and
you viii plant the timothy and clover
seed more uniformly and secure reas-
onably good results where broadcast
seeding will fail. TO make the grass
seeder feed down the clover at the
right rate, ground barley can be used
as filler without any difficulty
The application of d good top dress
Ing Of well rotted stable manure VIII
prove great help in securing stand
and In getting good yield when cloy-
er is seeded and grown.
Alsike clover is d close competitor Of
red clover, on ordinarily well drained
soil and where the ground il rather
wet will Guido the common red variety.
The common or medium red is the more
popuar and probably IL the best eli
round clover for the farmer to use.
The advantages from clover sowing
can be summed up as Follows IT viii
yield reasonably good crop OF hay.
II will make the and friable and In
good physical condition. 1t win add nj
trogen to the soil, which Is the one
element that our chemists fnd it runs
short Of first 1t requires live stock Ia
satisfactorily dispose of clover ana this
means richer land and greater thrift.
Glover with timothy growing ON the
land for two or three years viii largely
clean II from wild oat seed. Glover
and grasses let the insect enemies of
wheat die from lack Of food and shel
ter. such a. the wheat supplies and
they require. Glover and grass let the
wheat disease perish In the soil from
lack of q host plant to live upon. Glover
growing and prosperity have gone to-
getfer tn Michigan Ohio, Wisconsin.
Illinoia, Iowa and Minnesota, and sini
Ter results are Ia store FOR the DalSotas