The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18

harvesting Red Glover for Seed vii Sell at Very Good Figure for pared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture.) over seed Is high priced and ee. and good samples will com q prices that many farmers will oath 10 pay. The United States lrtment of agriculture, however, ls the seeding of as large an acre as possible. The best information inab1e shows that the foreign mar is quite as bare of clover seed as ur own. The French and Italian ,iies are sold out, and there ap- to be no surplus in Germany or ussia. This means that clover seed be nigh for at least two years to , if not more, and those farmers seeded last spring or who seed y20 will have chance to sell their sr seed crop at good figure. This time to look ahead, and for Amerl- farmers 10 get the benefit of the prices, before Europe has been ~ to get back to normal production the prices fall.
 Watch Quality of Seed.
 view of the high price of clover
 1t is Especially important that ers pay careful attention to the ty of seed they buy. The relation cen the purity and germination sample of clover seed and It's val. the farmer has been so ire tIy discussed that 1t Is not neces- to enter into details. A farmer. ig low price for poor lot of may really be paying more for food seed that will grow than he q have In sample of higher The only way to decide this is cure samples and quotations from sle firms. and have the seed an q by the state seed laboratory or a.se seed laboratory of the United Ws department of agriculture.
 hoe attention of farmers Is also call .fery especially to the fact that lal.n and IIaiian seed has been and ng imported into this country and ly.thc experlmenfs so far conducted ie department of agriculture in rn.s that this seed will produce a s more subject to disease and less 'ea' under American conditions than from our own seed.
 sections Where there Is no disease f the winter is moderate sue Il stand Of clover may be secured imported seed, but the chances st success are always greater when using American seed. Farm e urged. Therefore. to insist upon Showing where the seed Ss~sd them was harvested.
 also n time to consider with than ussfal care the means neces- for aets ng the most out of the sownl II will not pay to throw sive seed in poorly prepared d as was so often done when
 was cheap. The seed he'd should T prepared. The best way is moi the seed in early spring on the hfit fn harrow if Tn on the
 or to seed with a spring grain well prepared seed he'd. Seeding
 without . companion or nurse
 crop will often be better, but ways. If seeding must he done on .mx worn soil, it is better to seed =. especially If the field is not very
 If special seed bed is pre-
 it should be well competed. A piowed and narrowed field is len for the best results. The soil Aoe compacted or the seed bed will
 uf before the young plants get IVY rnots down far enough.
 Sure Whether Lime Is Needed.
 ther matter of the utmost i'm 1 Ice Is to Consider whether or not Vsld if is proposed to seed needs ! Unless the farmer is sure, he send sample of the soil to his
 sfeticn and inquire. Not far from
 cent of the arabic land east of
 Ississippi and north of the south
 s1ndary of Tennessee needs lime
 nx a good crop of clover. This
 An not he too strongly em-
 ed. If the soil is ''sour" do not
 expensive red clover seed on
 some one else have It. But land
 not remain sour. A ton or two
 lely-ground limestone per acre auIl the Average case, put the soil \ IN 9ndition to grow clover. It is not
 ary to put on enough to com
 satisfy the lime requirement.
 ennsyIvania station has shown
 lime reaulrement of 300 pounds ere or less did no great harm, "a hen more is needed it must be l0 ed # glover is to do well. Soil
 a lime requirement. of 1000
 or more per acre will usually
 ake q paying crop of red clover.
 wheat ground needs lime the s Se4 should be seeded with spring