ABOUT CLOVER.
A Michigan farmer writes to the journal of that name, that he considers clover to the farmer of as much value as a fertiliser as a crop of corn for fattening stock and making manure. In an experience of forty-two years ho has learned its value. He says, when he wants to seed down a field of wheat he waits until the ground is well settled at the opening of spring, and the hard frosts are past, and then sows the seed—six quarts of clover seed and four quarts of timothy seed well mixed, then harrows in lightly and rolls the ground. He sows ICOlb. of plaster to the aero. In seeding with oats the amount of seed is tho same, sown after the oats are dragged in, but the ground is then rolled, benefiting both oats and clover. Clover is the most profitable summer pasture for hogs, tut the pasture or field should be divided into two or three lots, so that the stock may be changed from one to the other during the season.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1983, 2 July 1880, Page 2
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178ABOUT CLOVER. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1983, 2 July 1880, Page 2
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