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to 1 V 7:. has had no manure except clover grown on 



it and plowed under, and that wheat, corn, oats. 



barley, meadow and pasture h:t -ularly taken 



from the land, in live \ears' rotation the closing 



eroj) beinii 1 winter wheat with timothy and clover 



d. The clover has been regularly treated with 



-urn for fifty years. He ha- particularly noticed 



it cf late years, and says the land is more fertile now 



than it was twenty-three years a^o." 



Yet, we hear nothing from, him of any injury to 

 the soil, from this life- long use of clover as a green 

 manure. But such has not been the case everywhere. 



Dr. Joseph Henderson, of Mi fflin Co., Pennsylvania, 

 says: " Experience here is adverse to turning down 

 green crops as fertilizes, and lew I believe, have 

 tted the experiment. In two instances in nay 

 immediate neighborhood wherein heavy crops of 

 clover were plowed in, in full bloom, upon land ol 

 excellent quality, the immediate effect, at least, was 

 highly pernicious as evinced in an almost total failure 

 of the succeeding crop of wheat/' (Agricultural 

 Report, 18(54.) 



Here is another case from the same Report. 

 Joshua S. Keller says : "Clover after growing up a 

 few years, ought to be turned under when fully ripe, 

 with a good plow. Let those who advocate the 

 green state do so to their heart's content. I have the 

 experience of both the dead-ripe and the young green, 

 and would by no means suffer the latter if I could 

 prevent it." 



And here is another, from an able writer, whose 

 name I have forgotten : " But powerful as are the 

 effects of green crops plowed in, it is the experience 



