The Bulletin. 2] 



Time of Seeding. 



Crimson clover can be sown in growing crops or on land especially 

 prepared for the crop. In the latter event the land should be plowed 

 sufficiently long before time to sow the clover to allow it to receive 

 two or three rains so as to settle it. When sown in corn it should be 

 sowed at the Inst working of the corn in the mountainous part of the 

 State, while in the eastern part or cotton belt it will be better to not sow 

 it until September. In sowing in standing cotton it is best to sow it 

 immediately after the pickers and then cultivate in with a five tooth 

 cultivator or some kind of a harrow. The seed should be covered from 

 a half inch to an inch deep. Some claim to have had good success in 

 sowing the seed in cotton and not covering with a harrow or other 

 implement. This I consider hazardous unless a spell of wet weather 

 follows. The writer has tried the plan and never secured a stand with 

 that practice. It is also much better to sow the seed when there is a 

 season in the land. To sow them in dry hot soil unless rain follows 

 soon often proves disastrous. The crop is too valuable to slight and 

 fail to get a stand. 



Sowing Seed. 



When crimson clover is sown alone apply 15 to 20 pounds of clear 

 seed per acre, or three times as many by weight when they are sowed 

 in the shuck or in the rough. If to be sown with wheat, rye or oats. 

 sow ten pounds of crimson clover and one bushel of wheat per acre or 

 the same when sown with rye or oats. I have seen fine results where 

 turnip seed and crimson clover were sown together. In that event the 

 turnips should not be sowed as thickly as if no clover was sown witt 

 them. The turnips are taken out for use in the winter and earh 

 spring and the clover then takes possession of the land. 



As a soil improver crimson clover stands very high. I have knowi 

 the yield of corn doubled in one season when a good crop of crimsoL 

 clover was plowed under. Know a field that has in three years gained 

 from 15 bushels per acre to 40 bushels. Only crimson clover and 16 

 per cent acid phosphate was used on the field. 



Mr. C. L. Goodrich of the U. S. Department of Agriculture says : "1 

 have a small farm up in Maryland. When bought in 1904 it had on it 

 a crop of corn which produced 8 bushels per acre. In 1908 I took from 

 it an average of 60 bushels per acre. At the start I tried to sow crimson 

 clover, but the land was too poor, so I worked awhile with cow peas 

 bought some stable manure and put it under cantaloupes, following them 

 with Irish potatoes, using commercial fertilizers. 1 then succeeded in 

 getting a stand of crimson clover, which was plowed under for corn. 

 The first crop* of corn after this cover gave 60 bushels per acre without 

 any fertilizer. This was repeated again next year, a second crop of 

 crimson clover having been turned under. Then we had some very dry 

 summers, and I could not get a catch of crimson clover, and had to 

 rely on commercial fertilizer, with the result that crop yields ran down. 

 Last year I got a good stand of crimson clover, which was turned under 

 this spring for corn, and my crop bids fair to be as high as 80 bushels 

 on some parts, with an average of not less than 60. I believe that 



