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" It is as a fertilizer, however, that it is so decidedly 

 superior to other crops. In addition to the advantages 

 before enumerated, the facility and economy of its 

 cultivation., the great amount yielded ; and lastly the 

 convenient form it offers for covering with the plow, 

 contribute to place it far above any other species of 

 vegetation for this purpose. All the grains and roots 

 do well after clover; and wheat especially which fol- 

 lows it, is more generally free from disease than when 

 sown with any other manure. The introduction of 

 clover, and lime in connection, has carried up the 

 price oi many extensive tracts of hind, from $10 to 

 $50 per acre, and has enabled the occupant to raise 

 large crops of wheat, where he could get only small 

 crops of rye ; and it has frequently increased his crop 

 of wheat three fold, where it had been previously an 

 object of attention." 



In 1S48, The Cultivator said: "We know an 

 extensive farmer, and a most successful one, who 

 avers that he can manure his farm cheaper with 

 clover, than he could with manure, could he have it 

 for only the carting from his yard and spreading." 



Among experienced farmers, a great diversity of 

 opinion exists, regarding the most profitable way of 

 using clover. Some can hardly be induced to plow 

 it in, or anything else which can be used as forage ; 

 among these we may number Joseph Harris ; yet 

 even he says : " In certain circumstances it may be 

 better to plow under the clover instead of feeding it 

 to stock on the farm. It is a quicker way of enrich- 

 ing the soil/' (Gcnesee Farmer, 1863.) 



Now is not this a great concession ! He is such an 

 eloquent advocate for feeding every straw, that I 



