tilizer in the form of nitrogen, but should expect to get that from 

 cover crops. I would supply the phosphates and potash in about 

 equal quantities. I do not think you can afford to buy nitrogen 

 when you can buy it in the form of leguminous crops. 



Member. What does our Michigan friend say about that? 



Mr. Bassett. In our orchard management there is one thing 

 about this leguminous crop that appeals to us more than any other. 

 We have tried to get results from Clover in one year, but have failed 

 in this. The trouble is that it does not mature sufficiently in a season 

 to take up and store very much nitrogen. It would not do to put the 

 clover in in the fall and plow under the next spring, — the little 

 nodules that secrete the nitrogen have not matured sufficiently to 

 contain much of it. We give the clover an extra season to mature, 

 and then turn it under. This we do about one year in five. The 

 others we have clean tillage. We usually use phosphate also, in the 

 form of bone; and these are the most satisfactory; but, as the pro- 

 fessor says, we cannot afford to buy nitrogen at the present price, 

 when we can grow cover. We usually try to grow clover in our 

 Baldwin orchard the year of its non-fruiting, and this sometimes 

 interferes with the setting of the fruit buds. 



Member. Do you use Mammoth or Red Clover? 



Mr. Bassett. We use both. 



Member. Did you ever try the crimson clover as a cover crop ? 

 Mr. Bassett. It is the crimson we use. 



Member. Do you get plenty of nitrogen from the Mammoth ? 



Mr. Bassett. We get nitrogen ; but they do not mature suffi- 

 ciently to be turned under the first season. 



J. W. Anderson. Mr. Chairman : I would like to say a word 

 about Crimson Clover. We are considerably father south than our 

 Michigan friend. In our section (York County) we are not much 

 farther south than you, in Adams County, and in this latitude Crim- 

 son Clover will make such a growth in one season that it will be a 

 great benefit to the land. A good many farmers sow Crimson Clover 

 in their corn at the last working. I have seen circular patches in the 

 oats the following season where the straw was much shorter than 

 that surrounding it, caused by the Crimson Clover being smothered, 

 in the fall, by the corn shocks. I am afraid Crimson Clover has been 

 greatly neglected. It will do you a lot of good to grow it. I know 

 this by actual experience, and there are many others who think as 

 I do on this subject. 



Prof. Watts. I would like to make one point in connection 

 with Crimson Clover. It should be started early. 



Mr. Anderson. The last working of corn does well with us. 



Mr. Repp. It is the practice in Freehold, N. J., to follow the 

 potato crop with Crimson Clover. 



