THE VALUE OF CLOVER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 10

THE VALUE OF CLOVER.

j, EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRIES;. 1 | ; Tho value of tho /olover plant,' both tiV.if'irom the manuriar dtid 'stock-feeding .as-. peotihavb beon iUvestilgatedi'by.'tho'.Amerl leans of late..- Professor iAV.-P. Brookes t carried out- exhaustive; iinfiuiries' at."jtJie r /experiments iarmjarid.;his; f; i . conclusions, been , looked ' for - with ' .i 'much interest.;/ ■%' is most .enthusiastic' 1 '.an his. advocacy of'.clover. ,• He'regards .it .as .air.phg.,the ;most M ,Yaluable,;.of;'all . [ .fodder crops..;, Whero;>stock aro kspt, he t ■■ ■ ■■■ says,,'it-lwiU',probably.,not be?found-;hil-l's- . < "..visablo. .tq-.-.use -..clover .maniiro, as it.'canV.bevbetter^utilised-by l;."y >r cutting! fdr Hay.iiflnt.whPca Witain.-.Ta-!. : | V: 1 , = : .ri«tie3, of fruit nr6'igrbwn> it ('is aft', e**"„, |:■< cellent (frbp i'to' .supply/humusVto ; \. Tho, most valuablo' featura'of ther plant,, f" . :bo recognises, Jis its . capacity ;to ' take. ■ -nitrogen from the nir,;and:nitrogen,.is.a ' costly manure. On :.tho other hand, tho [ mineral constituents .takeir-out of the soil iV /Mare.comparatively ch'edp, and coiild ! easily e';/'■'•ijie replaced., .The permanency; crop V.Cvis illustrated';b'y. thevfact.-'that'.sb'mo of. ■ i? >i '.jthe,.plots 1 : have' ? i2l*years:. ,Tli&, plants are, "as Vjiilerconi-; fc;' : .jparativelv' shprt-livPd/'sil ''fflat''it' is'.'ilear,' &*•?> that.asjthe plants die ' pi,;, htp.from the. seed to take flieir'placeJ'Ffbm ..' j 'stock point'/of .value fe'.j'A' «of clover rests .in . .ifs- supply: .of. . p'rote'in,' I which is essential 1 to the. formation of. > • .-iilesh. Hay, made - front' grasses 'cohtains I: -.only _G. to S ;per cent : of protein; But. it t;;i.!may con tain'as "much as 11! toll per.cent' I'whea. made.':J;from ... clovei;,; ,■ -Professor. . Brookes Wmmeif '."up - his 'conclusions ' by. jeaying that,\''For■ four important, reas.'i ; tons'.clovers aro among I tho. n-.osti-valu- ? 'table:,of'''forage.;plants:>.t • t'/lf'.vfial icpst'of r theif 'sec-. ' fi.'i nond, Y-J . 'of . the forggo: cropsr-far .- rioher \ than; ;grasses; .third,.;they..;enrich .tho 'soil an ■ -almost;;. invariably ii'ji: Agpod; fpurth'i',^ t TCrD)anerifcUnoivinas:tlioy' jiv .ultimately so enrich tho soil in nitrogen. | ;/:;.;that.; tha f ,grosses'^as-well,, as - the .clovers fc , :'>v-',piiAi9;Tig6roiis-gr6irth?''.:'''r':'.-.-,'!'V;l' (I ,;;,;v:'' ! ,'