Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-04-10
GREEN AANURIAG.
An Interesting Article About Corn and
Farm Work,

rain W0fk.
On soils that will grow red
clover succes essfully it is sometimet
desirable to follow clover with
corn. The clover should gener-
ally be sown in March on fall
sown wheat or oats and allowed tc
occupy the land the following
summer.
In case the lane is fertile sud
the crop makes a rank growth il
may bs cut for hay once the first
summer, but, as a rule, the clover
should not be disturbed till the
second season of its growth. The
mowers should be started about
the time ths plants are in full
bloom If the cutting is delayed
beyond this stage. the hay Will bs
Of inferior quality, and the
growth of the sec, I'D crop, which
produ ,es the seed, wall be great y
impaired. The fist cutting,
'aeref re-, sh,.ud be made as
aF'v g. I'll" '+a> v, as poss IDLE.
Whsn the sec md crop hss ma
IT i sod. +s,as is, when the
"a heve 1urL ed brown, the
md should ie thoroughly disced
A cas-. She crop is rather hsavy
pr tbs LAND Is dry and hard, and
he SD turned with 6 good two
horse pillow, care being taken to
edge the fu:row slice rather than
completely invert it.
The plowlng should te done
prefetably after the irst frcst be-
cause at this time all the insects
have ceasad depositing Eggs in the
roots. stubhls, and stems Of the
clover plants, and most of these
eggs aud most larvae will be kill
ed by the freezes of winter when
the plowing is done late in the
fall If the land is inclined to
wash, cover crop of rye may
be sown on tie land and narrowed
in for green manuring crop IN the
spring.
After the rye has made a fair
growth in the spling the disc
harrow should be used freely on
the land both to pulverize the old
sod and to out up the green rye.
1t may not be necessary to replow
the land in the spring in case a
good clover sod was plowed under
and good crop of rye is secured,
As rule, the more humus there
is in the soil, the less necessity
thsre is for the expensive oper.
alton of blowing.
Unless the winter has been very
severe the farmer would better
defer planting on this land till
the last of May or the first OF
June as, at best. only q part Of
the eggs and larvae of the cut
worms will be killed during the
winter and rest will remain ovel
till the middle or last Of May ir
this doe land and play havoc with
the stand of corn.
As we noted above, the more
organic matter we have in tht
soil the less often we will need Il
pillow for corn or any other crop
When the soil Ia filled with
humus the disc harrow will gen.
orally do all the plowing we need
Humus will do more fer ou
heavy soils than any number o
plowings. It makes the eartl
mellow; it loosens up the texture
it changes the color; it permit
the soil bacteria to convert th
millions of pounds of nitrogen O
the air into nitrates ready to b
consumed as food by the CROWN
crops; it absorbs and retain
moisture better than anythiD
else; it converts the minera
plant food elements of the sol
into soluble and available form
and holds them in it's capillar
spaces throughout the whole sol
stratum; it makes the soil 9
friable shat it is never too dry
plow and seldom too wet to til.
Humus is the very life -Llood c
the soil; therefore, add to th
richness and volume of this lii
blood Bulletin, N. G. Depart
ment of Agriculture.