The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-20

dictate that much larger yields may
be procured the following season by
seeding in August without nurse
crop than in the preceding Februa,
ry or March with wheat or oats or
other grain. Ii, when the grain is
removed in June, the land is plowed
or even disced at once, and fallowed
until August, catching all the Tain
that falls, enough moisture will be
stored up to tide the young clover
through dry fall. August sown clio
yer is too late to suffer from the dis
ease the year seeded and is cut the
next year before disease overtakes it.
Had the land on which the red clo-
yer failed from the spring seeding Oh
1911 been Immediately prepared after
the grain crop had been removed, for
August seeding of clover there would
be more hay next June than had the
early summer season been favorable
to stands of spring sown seed.
Another reason why clover should
be sown in August on well prepared
ground rather than in February r
March with whea as a nurse crop is
on account of the Hessian fly. This
reason is not in the interest of clover
but of wheat Volunteer stands of
wheat coming up in July and August
in land seeded to clover or grass, or
both, is responsible for the heavy
damage done by the Hessian ~ In
this State. In the absence of the
clover or grass the wheat stubble
could be plowed or disced and volun.
teer grains Largely destroyed. If then
the preparation FOR August seeding
of clover prevents the Hessian fly as
well as assures us of better stande OF
red clover, trial of at least few
acres is worthy of the undertaking.
We should remember that the
breaking of the ground for clover and
for the destruction Of the fly should
take place Immediately after the
wheat is removed. Late August prep
aration will not do, and September
preparation is sure to prove fail
ure.
The following general rotation is
one in which cover usually succeeds:
Corn in which rye is planted in July,
or, If corn be taken off for silage, the
! rye is sown as soon as the crop Is
removed. Turn the rye under in May
and lime as a top dressing with at
least two tons of ground limestone
per acre. Plant the ground the Sec
ond year to soy beans or COW peas. in
30 to SO inch rows, and cultivate two
or three times. Take the peas or
beans off in September for hay disc
the land and sow to wheat. Imnedi-
ately after the wheat is removed
(July) prepare the land for August
seeding of clover and grass, without
a nurse crop. On soils outside of the
Basin of Middle Tennessee, three
hundred to five hundred pounds per
acre of phosphate should be applied
to the ground before planting the
beans or peas.
To secure stands of volunteer clo-
yer and hence plants resistant to dis
ease, the second crop Of clover should
be turned under in September and
the ground sovn to rye for a sheep
pasture, or green manure crop for
the corn which follows.
Abbreviated this rotation is as fol-
lows:
Fire year, corn, rye In the corn.
Second year, beans or peas in the
row, cultivated.
IT, year, wheat or grain, stub
Bile rediately plowed for August
seeifn- II red clover.
p, gear clover--second crop |
trr der and rye sown. |
or the land goes to corn
ar citation starts around again.
o w be substituted for corn
IN alton.
northeastern counties OF
clover is sown in July and
buckwheat, with uniform