Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-06-12
From Agricultural Commissioner

Now is the time to begin plow-
ing for clover crops this fall. If
the purchase of seed is 'not made
now they will be much higher in
September and October. Missis-
sippi demonstration agents are
going to make a determined eff
fort to increase our present acre
age of clover 100, 900 acres this
winter. This will include red,
crimson, white, alsike, burr and
lespedeza clovers and melilotus
and alfalfa.
If Noxubee sows her prorata
part she must put in nearly 1000
acres. Can we do this? Is it too
large an undertaking.? And do
we need all this extra acreage of
soil renovating and soil building
crops growing on these lands?
Any one will admit that we need
them. We need them for build
ing up these depleted soils; we
need them for grazing crops, and
we need them for winter cover
crops to protect the land from
erosion and to utilize available
plant food that the winter rains
put in solution to be carried down
through the soil and lost perhaps
forever to us. We are cultivating
in this county about lao, 600 acres
of land and not more than 5 per
cent of this is growing restora-
tive crops.
Do you know that you are
taking from the lands of this
county annually with cotton and
corn nitrogen worth at market
value over $500, 900? If the sale
of the county's crops nets that
much money you say we are that
much richer than a year ago, but
to admit the truth, we have
worked at a loss all the year.
One acre of good clover of any
kind adds to that acre anywhere
from So to $25 worth of nitrogen
a year. Suppose some day we
grow some legume crops on hall
of our cultivated area, then We
are putting nitrogen into the
land faster than we take it out.
| wish the people on the farms.
and those in the towns of NoXu
bee county, would express a de
sire to cooperate with me tx
plant more soil building crops
this fall than any county in Mis-
! sissippi. All know you neeC
them. Any man can outline {
system of farming thatif patient
, ly followed, will enrich his land'
and him, too, but that some NAL
will not do what he tells other
is best for him,
: If | work alone at this Glove
campaign | shall be able to pu
in a few scattering plots; but
am not content with such,meagr
, results. Every farm in the coun
ty should begin this year toward
a definite rotation of crops tina
includes legumes on half the cul
tivated farm. Begin this yea
S with some burr and crimson Gle
vers and in the spring sow les
pedeza, alfalfa and melilotuS
t Add white and alsike clovers t
Y your pastures.
Mr.. H. E. Savely, of Washing
ton, has arranged with som
: southern seed houses to fill OF
ders from county agents fc
n clover seeds at very low prices
Twenty pounds crimson Glove
= seed sows l acre, price &c pc
t pound; 2 pounds white Glove
seed sows l acre; 10 pounds bul
clover seed in burrs sows l &C,
for thin stand, price 12c pount
: DO pounds burr clover seed
burrs sows / acre for thick stant
price 12c pound.
| have not had prices made m
J on white, alsike and red Glove
} seed, but l shall be able to g
} good prices.
I wish every man who rea(
this article would decide to so
a few acres. Send me statemel
! of what you want and sendchet
: to cover cost of seed and | W
! order now while prices are low.
81 J, W, HApDoN, Special Agent