HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



SWEET CLOVER PASTURES 



It has been demonstrated that Sweet 

 Clover can be grown in this county. It 

 has been shown that cows will not only 

 eat this plant but that once they get start- 

 ed on it they like it. At Greenway Farm 

 in Ware, Mr. George h. Timmins has 

 found that 8J acres of sweet clover re- 

 placed two feeds of ensilage and one half 

 the grain fed daily to fifteen first calf 

 Guernsey heifers. On the Pollard Farm 

 in Northampton, manager Joe Hathaway 

 found that 3i acres of sweet clover re- 

 placed all barn feeding and the Jersey 

 cows increased in milk production. J. D. 

 Turner of Westhampton, Ellis Harlow of 

 Amherst, William Hannum of Easthamp- 

 ton and Arthur J. Kingsley of Southamp- 

 ton have all found sweet clover can be 

 grown and that it makes a difference in 

 milk production. 



Sweet clover and alfalfa are alike in 

 lime requirements. They need from 3 to 



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 that to get profits from farming 

 there must be knowledge not only 

 of crops, but of markets, of prices, 

 of soil treatment, of other factors. 



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4 tons of lime per acre. Manure suppli- 

 mented with 500 to 1000 lbs. of acid phos- 

 phate, or 150 lbs. nitrate of soda, and 200 

 lbs. muriate of potash are needed for 

 fertility. The sweet clover seed costs 15 

 cents a pound and 20 lbs. are needed per 

 acre. The seed must be inoculated or re- 

 sults will be poor. 



The seed bed should be fitted as for 

 oats, disking in the lime fertilizer and 

 manure thoroughly. Seed the sweet 

 clover alone about the time oats are seed- 

 ed. The first year the piece is apt to be 

 weedy but the cows will clean the weeds 

 off if they are turned in the latter part of 

 July. The first year sweet clover .should 

 be pastured lightly or it will reduce the 

 crop the second year. The sweet clover 

 makes its greatest growth the second 

 year. Early in June the sweet clover on 

 the Pollard Farms was high enough to 

 hide the cows. Some of the plants grew 

 over seven feet tall. 



! The sweet clover plants die at the end 

 I of the second year. The third year the 

 pasture will be largely White dutch clover 

 j and blue grass. In order to get a good 

 blue grass sod, J. D. Turner of West- 

 hampton seeded blue grass and white 

 dutch clover the spring of the second 

 year. This gives a sod which will respond 

 to fertilizer and give a profitable crop for 

 several years. 



The greatest value of sweet clover pas- 

 ture will be as a suppliment to blue grass. 

 One half acre of sweet clover the second 

 year will practically carry a cow. By 

 rotating the cows on blue grass and sweet 

 clover both have a better chance to show 

 what they can do. We believe that sweet 

 clover and blue grass in rotation will 

 solve the pasture problem for Hampshire 

 County farmers. It is fortunate that it 

 costs money to get these crops started as 

 this will reduce competition. If it did 

 not cost anything, all dairy farmers 

 would try it. After the first heavy appli- 

 cation of lime, one to two tons of lime 

 every four years will do the trick. 



9. Be independent — don't join with 

 your neighbors in any form of co- 

 operation. 

 10. Mortgage your farm for very dollar 

 it will stand to buy things you would 

 have the cash to buy if you followed 

 a good system of farming. 

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Tennessee. 



"Economy no more means saving money 

 than it means spending money; it means 

 administration of a house; its steward- 

 ship, spending or saving, whether money 

 or time or anything else, to the best pos- 

 sible advantage." Riiskm. 



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HOW TO GO BROKE FARMING 



1. Grow only one crop. 



2. Keep no live stock. 



3. Regard chickens and a garden as 

 nui.sances. 



4. Take everything from the soil and 

 return nothing. 



5. Dont' .stop gullies or grow cover 

 crops — let the top soil wash away, 

 then you will have "bottom" land. 



6. Don't plan your farm operations. 

 It's hard work thinking — trust to 

 luck. 



7. Regard your woodland as you would 

 a coal mine, cut every tree, sell the 

 timber and wear the cleared land out 

 cultivating it in corn. 



8. Hold fast to the idea that the 

 methods of farming employed by 

 your grandfather are good enough 

 for you. 



T'wenty 

 Sacks 

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— less than a ton of ce- 

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 enough to build any of 

 the following: 

 100 rot-prool fence posts. 

 Sanitary feeding platform lor 24 



hogs. 

 120 feet ot 24 by 4 in. concrete 



walk. 

 20-barrel watering tank with plat- 

 form around It. 

 Floor formilkhouse and cooling 

 tank for 20 cans of mUk. 



Build These 



Improvements 



Yourself! 



These concrete improve- 

 ments need be built 

 but once; each is perma- 

 nent and expense proof. 



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