Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-06-04
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JOHN E. JACKSON.
EXPERIENCE WITH ALFAL-
FA AND CLOVERS.
(Southern Agriculturist.O

NOOulncTll AprlCulIuflSt.)
Last year l made my first cutting
Of alfalfa the 10th of May. Forty
five days later | saved the second cut
ting, which had quite a lot of blooms.
This cured nicely and was a perfect
pea green in color. The first cutting
was put up with little too much
moisture and the heat made it nice
brown in color. Both cuttings were
sold to wholesale dealer at $40 per
ton, which netted me S31 per acre on
each of the four acres. The third
cutting was likewise nice pea green
in color and brought $14 per acre.
| received for this $21 per ton. The
fourth cutting was harvested the 4th
week In September, a crop of $12
per acre, bringing the yield up to $50
easily. The land was capable of pro-
ducing fifty bushels of corn. No fer
tlliZer has been used at any time.
The land was broken twice, not sub
soiled, but thoroughly prepared after
oats by narrowing and dragging. It
1t not two years old and not threaten
ened with weeds or grass. am Of
ten asked if l inoculated the land or
seed. Perhaps so. l sowed the land
two years prior with only partial sue
cess and in this way I perhaps secur-
ed an incubation. / am now about
ready with six acres of as good or
better land and will use in lime and
fertilizer about $40 per acre. 1 doub-
lie plowed and SUBSIDIZED deeply and
expect to make much improvement in
the yield per acre.
| am greatly delighted with Grim
son clover for hay, for pasture. for
seed and especially for the evidence
Of nitrogen stored in the soil. With
seed of my own saving the remainder
of my farm not in alfalfa will be
seeded to this clover, expecting in this
way to be ready for more alfalfa
next year Every farmer can raise
his own seed, estimating that one
acre of seed will SOW from ten to
twenty acres by getting the chaff
which is easily done in the absence of
the hulling machine and perhaps is
the better way. If you have never
raised crimson clover, do so, so you
VIII have your own seed next year.
The yield for me is four or five times
as great as red. 1t never fails to
grow lrge enough to bed down.
Red clover with me was once
favorite crop, and if it could be grown
now as it once was it would be as
good a money crop as one could want. |
1 have just turned under a two-years
growth, making ready for a crimson
clover cover for the winter. This |
was from thirty to forty-bushel corn
land. With this red clover was a /
light mixture of alfalfa seed, which !
did fir better than the red, yielding
perahps fourt times as much as a /
bunch of red by it's side. This was
true on any part of the six acres and J
served to increase my admiration for
alfalfa. | feel sure that all red clover
should have a mixture of three to
eight pounds of alfalfa, especially
where any grasses are sown with the
red for meadow purposes.
Whe in Nashville a few days ago
was greatly surprised to find the
great expenditure being made for al
falfa seed, and confess to a good
degree of alarm on this account, be-
lieving that much of this will go on
land half prepared. Alfalfa will pos
itively refuse to do it's best or vene
we'll without thorough preparation of
the soil. With it it is a full oalf or
none. A. j. CARVER.