In 1^70. Joseph Harri< writes: - Nearly all the 

 spring- sown timothy ami clover in this section is a 

 comparative failure, and farmers are plowing tl cir 

 wlirat stuhhle and <roinr to sow wheat airain." 



II<> sowed ahont ~)<) acres, and savs : It is 

 apparently an absolute failure." 



In 1^7 Mr. Strauh. of Maryland, wrote to Harris - 

 * ; That lor the last two years the clover crop has 

 proved almost a total failure/' 



This is a serious matter, because it is always a 

 double loss. You lose a crop of clover, and all the 

 money invested in the seed. 



Have we no remedy? There is but one cause for 

 all this trouble. The want of moisture in the surface 

 soil. 



Sidney Weller, of North Carolina, found that when 

 he covered his wheat with pine leaves, even on his 

 sandy soil, the clover never failed, no matter whether 

 he sowed the seed in the fall or in the spring. 



AY hen the wheat is protected, with green corn, as 

 recommended in Chapter VII, the clover will find a 

 moist bed to grow in all the year. 



If you wisli to raise clover independent of any 

 other ciop. sow it with buckwheat in the spring, and 

 when the buckwheat is in blossom, cut it down, and 

 it will mulch the clover, and insure a good crop. 



CHAPTER X. 



GREEN RYE. 



One ton of green rye contains 11 pounds of nitrogen. 

 4 pounds of phosphoric acid, 12 pounds of potash. 

 and 1400 pounds ot water. 



