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Manawatu Herald, 12 May 1896, Page 4

P'^W^m^^ C r ;iM^O.N CLOVER. A F«w «»f ih- >; U iy Sff!t«.in<-ntii That Aw .■*!..-" Vlinut Thl.i riant. r^ ° ' o:! (> '"V' r, also rilled Bcarlet, an- '"" ' • ' '-an i'.rul Italian clover, is an n ' '. . r i!Kli:.;oumw to northern and ■ ■. Crimson clover is very ivon upon soil too light to :'<.-■:.) of rcl or white • ' ' '•> f'ii thevi^H i;j one • aero of one catting. The iy ia fully eqnal to that TJiia clover has been •ought before the public ■■■■■- ing reports of it in bnli om tho Delaware expert* ' .. js n .( :. .i elation,. ■"■ inherent •ectiotw individual fannto- * wh »t to said of of tho country. Here ». "^ * no North it in a bulletin Issued frow Carolina Htation: "TK Crinwon clover has a peenliar anA >*. gi-cat valno for the light soils of the cotton belt. In this region me ground way seldom freezes to a greater depth th»# *&■<* '-'-K I ■ SCARLET CLOVXR. few inches or remains frozen longer .than a day or two at a time. From such soils the residue of tho costly nitrates supplied in manure for th* (mmmer crop very readily leach away nnless there are growing plants to take them up. Hardy plants like crimson clover grow well (except for a few days after each "cold wavo") during the winter and may be utilized as paaturago, or, if left until spring, will furnish a good crop of hay or fivcon manure hi time to vacate tho land for corn or cotton. Crimson clover I/i bettor tf !;zn red clover for mixing with r v o or bar. >y iov winter pasture. t r-lovcr ahould bo sown in the furry ■ 'i ho cotton or cornfield when the <"•■■ • * : .Uivated for the last time. ' y t\ho be profitably sown hi + • -i)ii iho winter wheat, oats ? fall before. When the , ' iown, the clover will soon < of the stttbble and furnablo, or more so, than ; cut. Crimeon clover will c»f<-'.' ov H^ibll? huid by merely harrowij),c tho n>,A with a heavy harrow, sucb as the Cutaway, Acme or Disk, or even upon tho stubble land without any cultivation. The time when winter grain is usually harvested hi this latitude—June —is too late for sowing crimson clover. Cow peaa will then give better results. A Kont county (Del.) correspondent of The Country Gentleman writes, "Crimson clover ia an annual doing vastly bet* ter sown in Ar.gust to grow in the fall and spring and ready for cutting either for hay or ensilage, ov to be plowed under as manure the Ist of May following, than in any other way that it can be treated, as it does not do well sown hi the spring in thin climate." Thorburn ■ays, "Crimiton clover sown late hi summer furniHhea a nearly green fodder the following season; is largely sown hi Virginia; 20 pounds to the acre." Henderson of New York says: "When a single crop i» required either alone or with Italian rye graas, this ia one of the best clovers. It makes good hay and is excellent for feeding green, the yield being Immense, and after cutting it begins to grow again and continues until freezing Weather. It can be sown in the fall for early spring cutting, but is generally sown in the spring for cutting in July. It is suitable to all soils, but to light and chalky soils more especially, on which it outyields by far the ordinary red clover and is earlier than that variety by two or three weeks. Sow, if alont, U pounds ptrAcre." w «■*«* '^ K«roMH« Xmnlslon. In an address by S. A. Forbes before the Society of Economic Entomologists he said: Kerosene emulsion has been fully studled aa to methods of preparation with various kinds of soap— hard and soft— and with milk, by Cook, of Michigan: has been used with snecess by Fletcher, of Canada, for the cabbage plutella; by Fvmald, of Massachusetts, on the red spider; by Dr. Jabez Fisher, of the same state, for the pear tree psylla; by Richmond, in Utah, for the cabbage flea beetle, and by Osborne, in lowa, for plant bco of nil descriptions. Applied to the aHpai-Hffus beetle by Smith, In New Jersey, i' killed a large part of the larva, but i it . iV) e.fpfs. A notable idea in the ;t ? kerosene has been worked 0 1 :»• experiment station hort ;i*consin, who has dcv I nozzle by which kerob -ro mixed immediately a . any desired proportions, a n?s a fine spray without tho m ;.. m /oi previous enmlriflcation.