Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-08-17
SWEET CLOVER FOR
MADISON COUNTY
County Agent Spence AT Berea.
. Gives Some Inkefesting Views
On the Subject
by R. L. Spencel

dairying, bee raising. and sweet
clover.
Six years ago men. cursed.
sweet clover in. Madison county
andI said nothing would. eat it. To-
day they praise sweet clover and
stock eats it. It's only a; matter
of time until all of our farmers
of Madison. county will realize
the value of sweet clover as hay
crop, soil crop and the, finest
grazing crop. Blue grass is fine
grazing but the hot sun comes
along in July, July and August
and destroys the tender growth
to some extent. Sweet clover
grows on-Why? Because it has
a deep root and goes down for
moisture while blue grass doesn't
go so deep. -
Sweet clover will fatten cattle,
hogs. sheep. horses and mules. It
will produce more eggs. By-do-
ing these things it will. bring
more money to our farmers. and
money is what we want. It takes
money to run any business
Farming is the biggest business
III our county and should be look
ed upon as such.
There are thousands of acres of
land in Madison county that are
not producing - only covered
with a wild coat of grass,here and
there and cut to pieces by bitches
thousands of acres, bald
knobs which are considered
worthless and thrown out to the
commons thousands of acres of
steep hill sides washing away
from year to year., thousands of
acres of poor and thin: covered
with castles and monuments built
by the crawfish. All of this land
is valuable and can be made to
produce and bring forth plenty.
Sweet clover will do the work. On
the steep rough bald knobs" and
where there is lime in the soil
sweet clover will grow in abund-'
anCe. On the crawfsh land
ground limestone should be ap-
piled at the rate of 2 tons per
acre and seeded to. sweet. clover.
The day is coming when. we
will need more and better soil.
Madison county is Blessed with
fine productive land. and yet she,
has some very poor non-produc-
tive land. This firm, rich land
should be cared for BY keeping it
|rich and the poor land should be
made Better. 1t can,be done and
L believe it is up to us to do it.
There are thousands, yea millions
possibly to follow us in, Madison
county and get their support
from the soil. Not only gel. their
support tut must>Seed' the people
of Richsss,,lond, Berea, and other
small towns within. the county.
Yes, we must have plenty to
Ispare if money is to be made in
the county as it has been done in
the past.
AS the soil, so will. the county
be. Then if we wish to be rich
we must take care of our soil.
Rotation of crops, more and bet
ter live stock and cover crops for.
the winter will make the poor
land better and maintain our pres
ent soil fertility. Rotation of
crops to be worked out to suit the.
farm. Sweet clover to be the
rotation More and better live
stock can be secured by getting
better sires-bulls, bucks, boars,
stations, jacks and BOOSTERS and
giving them plenty of sweet clo-
liver to Craze upon and to eat dur
ling the. winter. Cover crops for
1.-THE winter should be on every
farm when possible. The cover
crop holds the fertility of soil
from being washed away during
the winter rains. 1t also gives
pasture early and late. 1t fur
nishes a green manure crop to
turn under to make more fumus.
Sweet clover is, one of the best
crops; tnere are OtherS but dOn>t
forget sweet clover.
I John L. Green, Berea, r. d. /,
has so acres in sweet clover. He
cut 6 acres for seed, is grazing 80
and. has IL whichs was seeded last
spring and will soon be grazing.
Since the clover has. been high
enough to- Craze in the early
spring, he has had from IS to Is |
cattle on the; 80 acres all the time
up until August l. In spite of all !
the cattle the clover grew SO fast |
that in many places tlie cattle can
His Birthday This Month
F. M. Daman, Co. F., National
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