CLOVER IMPROVES THE SOIL.

Shannon News, 25 November 1924, Page 4

CLOVER IMPROVES THE SOIL.

The enrichment of soil by clover crop residues has been demonstrated very clearly in some experiments carried out at Rothamstead Station in England. In one case when an extra large crop of clover was grown notwithstanding the fact that the crop yielded between 3 and 4 tons per acre of clover hay, the wheat crop which followed was 16 per cent better than the wheat crop on the other plot following the bare fallow. The turnip crop following the whtat, although similarly manured in both plots, was also better when the clover had been grown; even the barley which came next, three years after the clover, showed a decided superiority in the clover plot. Thus the clover crop itself, wholly removed from the land, exercised a marked influence for good on the three succeding crops grown under ordinary favourable conditions.