The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-12

a5f3>, - H$ES% these may not bring
8&A 1:AEV&8R% dollars as a crop.
s3.snHaAss2asaAk they cert a II Y
W. H. MASSEY. make life more
happy for the whole family
Then there is another view of a
more practical character. Take two
farms side by side, one with n pref
lilly painted house. and good stretch
of green lawn. with plantations Of
shrubhcry and trees enclosing it: and
the other place with the same sort of
house. but neglected as TO paint and
standing bare ia tho fields with no
effort al ornamentation. Let both these
places DO offered for sale. and the
place with n we'll arranged lawn and
flowers will bring moro money an acre
than the other. though there MAY he
nc difference i'm the '.aluc of the land.
have seen this done
Red Glover.
In advocating the use OF peas and
the annual crimson clover as the best
means FOR rapidly bringing up our run
down soils, would not like to be
understood as being opposed to the
old stand hy. red clover MI over the
Piedmont section and in the Valley red
clover viii always. ana should ALWAYS
be the leading lcgumc CROP and the
greatest care should be taken to keep
the land in condition to mako good
clover crops While 1t is common to
SOW red clover with timothy when
seeding down for hay. this is hardly
the best place for the clover. though
the mixed hay is certainly better stock
feed than pure timothy, for with the
usual treatment OF timothy the clover
is generally pretty rnr gone by tho
time the clover is cut
Earlier grasses lhio orchard grass
and Fescue or Randall grass as IT is
called in Southwest Virginia associate
much better with red clover than tim
othy does But il is also true that these
early grasses sometimes give the farm
or trouble 10 save them at tho right
time. for orchard grass will not stand
and walt for YOU like timothy will If
not cut by the time ii blooms il de-
preciates very rapidly in value. and
the weather is apt TO be catching when
these early grasses should be cut. one
advantage they have is the fact that
they cure more rapidly than timothy
unless the timothy is let get too ripe.
But the man with n large field of
orchard and Meadow Fcscue has GER
tamly ticklish job in rainy spring
weather Then, too while orchard
grass may look heavy, it seldom makes
the weight per acre that timothy does.
because of its natural habit OF growing
in tussoclls and being really thinner
than il looks at a distance
But ali the same, a good crop Of the
early grasses ana red clover makes
time.
Curing Clover.
cure clover hay in pretty much
the. same way that use in curing any
other lcSume crop. mainly in cocks and
With as little exposure TO the sun AS
practicable / start the mowers as soon
as the dew is fairly OFF and NOW only
till noon. | put the tcddcr right after
the mowers 10 keep the hay tossed up
and hasten it's willing, and rake it
into winrows the same afternoon Turn
the winrows and spread them Il little
the next morning and then cock ii that
afternoon.
Cowpea hay will he but little injured
in the cocks by rain, but red clover
should have hay caps to protect il il
rain threatens, for rain Will do serious
harm
Then as soon as the twisting of a
bunch shows that no sap can be wrung
TO the twist haul it To the barn while
sim limp and let il finish the curing
there
some years ago built n long series
of sheds around my barnyard as a
place where the COWS could eat straw
and hay from racks when turned out
built a hay loft over these sheds
with doors al intervals 10 drive along
ana unload the hay.
one spring began To cut clover hay.
and had stored goodly amount in the
lofts, packing. 1T ~ 10 the roof. y
rainy spell set. in. 'ui stopped US for
a time and when moving again start
ed told the men that as could not
get TO the iield before IL o'clock IN the
morning, wien they started 10 haul
IN the hay to put II on top the HAY
already there. which had settled some.
hut not 10 disturb the hay already in.
When ! got out my horse was sad
oled as usual at the door. and rode
1T once 10 the barn yard. and found Z.
wagon there with a load OF hay. and
tie daikeN pushing back the hay al
ready in called To him TO stop NOV
Ing the hay OF he would spoil il IT,
alreaGy spilled" said he. for il Is right
hot SUt ! made him unload and pacl:
on tor the hay. The only mouldy hay
IN that loft was where that darkcy
rad tossed it up at the door ana let
in the germs OF mould The rest al!
cured bright and sweet
Pastures in the South.
i have hilly pasture. which az
You have said, has made some eulleys.
and the grass is pretty poor WHAT
would YOU advise for its Improvement? go
one OF my old associates has defined n
Southern pasture as "a place where no
grass grows And all over the uppcr
Piedmont country Tuckahoc. as the
VALLEY people call it, one can see these
s"-ca!ied pastures. mainly broomsed.e
ana III the early spring one can sec
the owners burning off thc broomscdr -
10 get an early start OF tie same poor
grass True. the young shoots OF the
oroomsedge DO make the pasture some.
what better. but only ror q little while
ana all summer there IS the tough
hroomsedre that the stock cannot eat
and little green stuff that Is so short
they cannot get hold Of H. AND ,e-
the farmer calls II a pasture Ane
year after year, on the cattle tracks
the gulleys get larger and larger. ane
the owner is afraid TO break IL for fea,
the gul!eys viii increase. while in fac
his method is tho one that has mad,
them. and is increasing them Ana i,
some instances one can see thcs, Oh,
pastures that have uotten euch vas
washes in them that t-,- ,and is who'll,
irrecla Unable
When was managing The agricul
iural affairs OF tho Miller school Of Al
bemarle. the school bourn, AN old NcL
10 get an outlet 10 a road at the FOO
OF the Ragged Mountains, which ha,
been treated IN this way until tier
were gulleys. vast chasus that wou!
mold house, and the land is as hope