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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Continued from pa^e !1. column 1 

 much the same as in previous war per- 

 iods. We will very likely experience 

 short cycles of high and low prices for 

 some time yet, but not until the great 

 waste in the marketing system is re- 

 duced to a minimum, and the population 

 of the country is increased sufficiently to 

 consume the products produced by the use 

 of the modern, efficient machinery and 

 methods, will agriculture enjoy the much 

 needed profits on its investment in labor 

 and funds. 



Leaving Farms a Qood Sign 

 The law of supply and demand works 

 in a very harsh manner in its final stage 

 of any one cycle. The fact that all lines 

 of farming the country over are at one 

 time or another feeling the effects of the 

 maladjustment causes one to wonder if 

 perhaps the remedy lies not in the power 

 of any group of individuals but more 

 within the scope of this economic law that 

 has been in force since man first began to 

 barter. Let us not deplore the movement 

 city-ward for that means competition of 

 lessened keeness, and a gi-eater demand. 

 Not until the proportion of consumers to 

 producers becomes such that the demand 

 for farm produce is increased can we 

 hope for better times, and until that 

 time comes, let more attention be given 

 to ways of lowering production costs. 



flover FsiiliireK 



Continued from page 3, column .'> 

 views the work of County Agricultural 

 Agents, as follows: 



"The county agricultural agents, es- 

 pecially in New York, have been alive 

 to the importance of lime for clover and 

 have presented much evidence to show 

 that lime not only increases the total ' 

 yield, but that on limed land most of the 

 hay is clover, while on the unlimed land 

 the product is chiefly grass and weeds. 

 The county agents' reports for New York 

 show in some cases increases from 0.4 of 

 a ton on the unlimed land to 2.9 tons on 

 the limed land (Chemung County). In 

 Jefferson County the first cutting yielded 

 5,920 pounds per acre on limed and 1 980 

 pounds on the unlimed land, while the 

 second cut yielded 1,960 pounds on the 

 limed and but 214 pounds on the unlimed 

 land. In Otsega County the percentage 

 of weeds on limed and on unlimed clover 

 fields was determined. On limed land 

 there was found to be between 1 and 2 

 percent of weeds; on the unlimed land 

 between 21 and 49 per cent. From Chris- 

 tian County, 111., the county agent re- 

 ported a 60 per cent stand of clover after 

 liming land on which clover had failed 

 continuously for 15 years. In all cases 

 the reports .show a satisfactory money re- 

 turn from the use of lime, whether oi- 

 not there was a total failure on the un- 

 limed land. Scores of similar reports 

 might be cited, but these will have to 

 .serve as examples of the vast amount of 

 evidence that has accumulated in the past 



few years, all tending to show that an 

 important factor in clover failure is the 

 lack of lime in the soil." 



Manure Alone Not Knough 



"In many of the experiments leported 

 by the State agricultural experiment 

 stations it was shown that manure alone 

 usually insured a stand of clover, though 

 often the addition of lime was beneficial. 

 In some cases, however, manure alone 

 has proved of no value, as was shown in 

 the Kentucky work, as well as for other 

 fields in the same State. On many of 

 these fields manure alone had little or no 

 effect, while in most cases the increase 

 in yield with lime was striking. The need 

 of both lime and manure was also shown 

 on the Francisco field in Indiana." 



Other Causes of Clover Failure 



While the lack of lime undoubtedly is 

 the greatest single factor in limiting the 

 growth of clover, it must not be inferred 

 that there are no other causes. According 

 to the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 the causes of clover failures are also to 

 be sought in "improper soil conditions, in 

 disease, in the use of non-adapted seed 

 or in improper methods of seeding and in 

 the use of harmful nurse crops." The 

 improper soil conditions, as previously 

 pointed out, however, are largely the re- 

 sult of the lack of lime, and the Farmers' 

 Bulletin mentioned has this to say about 

 the cure for diseases of clover: 



"Fungous diseases are more serious 

 than nematodes in bringing about clover 

 failures. The remedies for failures 

 caused by fungous disease are, first, pro- 

 per liming and fertilizing of the soil. The 

 Tennessee Station learned that even 

 where anthrocnose was present the dam- 

 ago was much reduced when the land was 

 limed. This merely means that by im- 

 proving the soil for clover the plants were 

 better able to resist the attack of the 

 disease." 



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