Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-20

and stock-raisers. The bulletin, which
is for free distribution under the aus
pices of the Farmers COOPERATIVE
Demonstration work, is in part, as
follows;
1t is commonly supposed that The
soil of the South are not adaptable to
clovers. However, recent successful
demonstrations of bur and crimson
clover on a wide diversity of soil
types, varying from heavy clay to lighl
sands, proves beyond doubt the adapt
ability of these valuable crops to the
needs of the average oSuthern farm.
To the student of agricultural con
ditions in the South two facts stand
out prominently.
First, The necessity for better pas
lures for the economical production of
beef, pork and dairy products, and,
Second, The need of winter legumes
to prevent soil teaching and erosio !,
and to add to the store of nitrogen
and vegetable matter in thessoil.
Bur clover belongs to the same fam
lily of plants as alfalfa and melilotus
and is closely related to them. The
two most common species of bur clio
yer are California bur and Southern
or spotted-leaf bur. The Southern bur
is harder and better suited to South
ern conditions than the California bu".
The Southern bur clover is perfectly
at home on all types of well-drained
soil anywhere in the cotton belt. 1t &c
an excellent winter and spring grazing
crop and is relished by all classes II
stock when once they have become ac-
customed to it.
The chief value of bur clover in the
South lies in its use as winter graz
ing crop on permanent pastures. Bur
clover and Bermuda grass make an
ideal combination for an all-the-year
round pasture. The clover comes up
in the fall after the Bermuda clover
re-seeds itself and dies. The clover
adds nitrogen to the soil and improves
the growth of Bermuda without in anv
way interfering with it. AS bur clo-
yer is a winter legume, requiring lit
tie sunshine, it grows readily in Or
chards and wooded pastures. 1t is
the best soil-improving crop that can
be grown in orchards, as it makes its
growth in winter and early spring
when moisture is abundant and does
not use the moisture supply in the
summer months when needed by the
trees.
Bur clover does not appear to be
well suited as a part of the systems of
crop rotations, commonly recommend
ed for Southern farms. 1t does not
re-seed itself in time to prepare Il
good seed bed for cotton and early
corn, and the bur clover seed are tor
expensive to re-plant the land each
year. Bur clover may be used sue
cessfully in two-year rotation OF
cotton and corn. The clover can b.
sown in the cotton middles in Septem-
Der and will mature seed by the 18th
TO 25th of May. AS soon as the cloveG
! is matured the land should be thor
oughly disced, narrowed and broken
and a good seed bed prepared AMI
! planted to corn in rows five to six
feet wide. A row of cowpeas cal
be planted with a drill in the middles
when the corn is two feet high and the
peas will be cultivated by the later
civilizations of the corn.
The next year during the latter hal
of March, the clover should be turned
under and the land prepared for cot
ton. The clover will be from six t.
ten inches high and will add a large
amount of nitrogen and humus to the
land Where the clover is allowed to
mature seed once in two years there
will be enough seed left in the soil the
second year to give a good stand. M :
r. f. Lambert, of Darlington, Ala,
has for several years practiced a two