The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

| plowing of cotton or corn is a splen-
did time to SOW the burs in the cotton
or corn alleys. provided seed are not
covered more than one-half inch deep
and five to seven bushels sown per
acre.
Sow not less than so pounds of
burs, or five bushels, per acre if a
good stand is desired the first year.
The burs will carry some inocula-
tion, but if the first crop is expected
to do well, use the following method
| of inoculation: Spray seed with water
until each bur is wet, then add soil
from bur clover, alfalfa or NELL
lotus field, using one pound of soil
to one pound of seed burs, and roll
until each bur is loaded with soil. Sow
at once and lightly harrow, brush or
roll into the soil, covering only about
one-fourth to one-half inch deep. If
| inoculated soil can't be secured, use
commercial inoculation according to
directions. Once inoculated, your
| land Will grow bur clover forever If
kept growing and ripening on the land
even every few years, provided the
soil is not permitted to become acid
or sour. In which event, apply at
least 1000 pounds of burnt lime or
1000 pounds or more of ground lime
stone per acre. re-inoculate and sow.
Remember that no legume can best
succeed without acid phosphate (and
/ potash on deep sand)
Cotton and corn rows when clean
cultivated constitute splendid prep
aration for sowing bur clover. Sim
ply SOW the seed and cover shallowly
with harrow or sweep. On pea stup-
! BILE, clay lands should be lightly
disked before attempting to harrow
in the seed.
When sowing on Bermuda sod, disc
or otherwise scarify the surface suf-
| ficiently to permit the covering CT
seed with brush, drag harrow or a
roller. Bur clover seed should be
covered only one-fourth to one-half
inch. Nothing makes better pastur-
age for winter and summer grazing
than a combination of Bermuda grass
and bur clover. Remove animals by
April . If you want heavy reseed-
/ ing. Craze again when seed are ma
tured.
An acre of rich land will produce
! 100 to 200 bushels of seed-burs-1O
pounds of which make a bushel As
soon as the clover is matured, rake
into wind rows and thresh or frail of
the burs. If the growth is dead when
this is done the greater part OF the
/ burs will drop to the ground while
raking. Sweep these up with a broom
or wire brush. The more soil sown
with them the better the incubation
If sale of seed is desired, sieve
through one-fourth to three-eights
inch mesh wire. The first crop OF
seed produced unless very heavy yield
is obtained should be left on the land
| When this is done, bur clover Will
voluntarily spring up each fall Cjust
as crab grass does in the spring. for
two years. Thereafter, reseed thc
land by leaving a narrow balk in cot.
/ ton or corn middles each spring until
the clover natures; then break out
balk. Seed thus matured will spring
up at the proper time and produce
! winter grazing and protection for the
soil against eaching and washing and
will, when turned in spring. supply
/ the soil with both humus and nitro.
I gen. so much needed by Southern
soils.
| After having turned three or four
heavy growths of bur clover, nitrogen
can be left out of, fertilizer mixtures
entirely, thus saving about one-hali
the fertilizer bill. A very heavy
/ growth of bur clover turned will SUP.
ply nitrogen equivalent to 1900 tC
1000 pounds of cotton seed meal OF
500 to 500 pounds of nitrate of soda
Wash for Peach Trees.