1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
379 
MORE CRIMSON CLOVER REPORTS. 
Some Good Reports. 
(continued.) 
seed too late, and not covering- deep enough. I 
am satisfied that it must get a good start in the 
fall to do well. I have failed with it for two years 
before this, owing, I think, to late sowing, as last 
winter was more severe than the winters before 
when I failed to get a crop. j. e. 8 . 
Columbus, N. J. 
I sowed Crimson clover on rye stubble prepared 
for rye and seeded too thinly. The last few freezes 
of winter killed the most of it. It was sowed 
September 7. September 9, I sowed some on oat 
stubble prepared for wheat on good ground ; it 
was sowed thicker and a good stard of oats came 
up with it. It is in bloom now, and doing well, 
except for the frost of May 13. j. m. b. 
Clay County, Ind. 
I sowed two acres September- 5, on oat stubble, 
prepared the same as for wheat on a piece of 
clearing with a northwestern slope and very much 
exposed. The oats came up very thickly on part 
of it, and there the clover is looking very well, 
and made about as much growth as my Medium 
clover sown last spring. Where there were no oats 
to protect it, it froze out, all but a few scattered 
plants. I sowed 10 pounds to the acre. I think 
it should have been sown a month earlier, j. m. 
New Alexandria, Pa. 
This seems to be the home of Crimson clover; I 
never knew any plant that became so very popu¬ 
lar in so short a time. It will grow on any land, 
rich or poor, clay or sand, provided it is dry ; it 
will not grow on wet land, but as nearly all our 
lands are dry, it is to be seen everywhere. We 
sow it in the corn at the last working in July, 
August or September. It seems to succeed best 
on light, sandy loam. We are cutting it now, but 
a good deal has been ruined by the persistent 
heavy rain, which is retarding everything here. 
Harmony Village, Va. r. h. 
I am now plowing my orchard, which is cov¬ 
ered with a solid mat of Crimson clover from 2C to 
24 inches high, which has roots from three to 
four feet long. The ground is moist and free from 
weeds, and is in a much finer condition than 
ground not sowed. In many cases, one clover 
seed has produced from 50 to 60 stalks. It is in 
bloom—May 15—and about ready to cut for hay, 
the quality of which is good. There is going to 
be a good demand for seed this season, and we 
shall make big preparations to save several hun¬ 
dred bushels. We usually thrash at any time 
after June 1. a. j. c. 
Cumberland County, N. J. 
I sowed six acres among corn intended for the 
silo, five quarts per acre, at the last harrowing, 
about June 25. I had a fine catch, but the very dry 
weather in September and October, reduced the 
stand very much. It did not winterkill, and stood 
the winter fully as well as Medium, of which there 
are three acres alongside of it, sown at the same 
time and under the same conditions. Early in the 
spring, it looked quite thin upon the ground, 
hardly enough to be worth leaving for a crop; but 
at present it stands 15 inches high, is just shoot¬ 
ing into head, and the ground is nearly covered. 
It has stooled out wonderfully, and looks likely to 
make a fair crop. I intend to cut it for hay, and 
plow for Hungarian or millet. I shall try it again 
this season. t. s. 
Chester County, Pa. 
Prof. Crimson Clover F. F., is doing an immense 
business in Delaware this season. He is in the 
employ of at least one-third more of our farmers 
than ever before. He attends strictly to business 
and works for his board night and day. A dress¬ 
ing of acid phosphate encourages him more than 
Mr. Potash on my soil. He has made Delaware 
look like a sea of blood, as he is in full bloom just 
now. Of course we expected the professor to suc¬ 
ceed in Delaware, as he is one of her natural¬ 
ized and acclimated sons—and we’re not disap¬ 
pointed. He is a howling success here every 
year, no matter how much the mercury plays 
around zero. e. g. Packard. 
Delaware. 
R. N.-Y.—Why don’t you elect him to the Senate? 
They need a little nitrogen there to quicken things 
up ! _ 
NOT SO GOOD HERE. 
I sowed one acre July 25; put on 200 pounds of 
sulphate of potash and 15 pounds of seed. I got 
a poor stand on account of the drought. It seemed 
to pass the winter well, but was all killed early in 
the spring. I shall try again. o. r. 
East Granby, Conn. 
Last summer, I sowed about 10 pounds of Crim¬ 
son clover seed about the middle of July, at the 
last cultivation of the corn. It came up nicely 
and when the corn was cut, it was about six 
inches high and covered the ground. This spring 
uot one single plant started. g. l. p. 
Boonville, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—You got your money back in the fall 
crop. 
I plowed five acres of wheat stubble, the first 
week of September, harrowed it up fine, sowed one 
bushel of Crimson clover and rolled it in; I got a 
fine stand. When freezing weather began, it was 
about 1*4 inch high, with an average root growth 
of about four to six inches. Before the ground was 
covered with snow, the mercury went down to 10 
degrees below zero. In January, we had a heavy 
fall of snow, which stayed on until the last of 
February; when it went off this spring, the 
clover looked green and nice, but the first three 
weeks of March we had very dry weather, with 
some freezing, which cracked the ground badly, 
and dried the roots of the clover so badly, that 
most of it died. There is now and then a bunch 
left which was down in a horse track or other de¬ 
pression where it did not dry out. I think that if 
I had sown earlier, so that the top growth could 
have got large enough to form a mulch, it would 
have come through all right. I shall sow in July 
and August, this fall, and try again. j. w. o. 
Hillsboro, Ills. 
I sowed Crimson clover September 14, in a peach 
orchard. It is still alive. We sowed late on ac¬ 
count of its being so dry, got a good rain soon 
after sowing, when it came off dry again, and 
killed all but a strip three to four feet wide in the 
lowest ground midway between the trees. It is 
gravelly ground; did not heave during the winter 
to do any apparent damage. My brother sowed 
August 12, under the same conditions, and on 
similar soil. All died—drought the cause. 
Lake County, O. a. w. 
At the Hatch Experiment Station, Cx-imson 
clover was sown the middle of July, in standing 
corn, upon medium sandy loam. The dry weather 
kept the plants back; they were uninjured by 
fall freezing. Through the entii-e winter until the 
middle of March, the field was well covered with 
snow. When the snow went away, nearly all the 
clover was alive and looked well, except in small 
depressions where ice had formed; this was dead. 
Fully 90 per cent of the plants have died up to 
date. In 1893, the same trial was made, but the 
clover springkilled. A few specimen rows sown 
alone July 15, 1894, have wintei’ed perfectly. 
Amhei-st, Mass. h. m. t. 
Crimson clover has played out—freezing and 
thawing since winter broke up, has killed it, so 
that we have plowed the piece. Some English 
clover right beside it when the ground first thawed 
out, looked much browner than the Crimson; but 
a big change was noticeable after two weeks of 
freezing and thawing weather—the English had a 
good root and withstood it, while the Ci-imson, 
with so little i-oot, could not stand it, and was 
pulled out and froze to death. A neighbor had a 
small patch which failed the same, only here and 
there a small bunch in the hollows being left. I 
shall try again, sowing earlier if possible. 
Bix-mingham, O. E. M. G. 
July 30, I sowed on well-prepared land, thi-ee 
acres of Crimson clover. It passed the winter 
well, the mercury falling as low as nine degrees 
below zero. We had much more snow than com¬ 
mon, and it stayed on the ground much longer 
than usual. There is now a good stand. Along¬ 
side of it is a patch of volunteer Red clover; the 
latter is more than as high again as the Crimson, 
with stems three times as heavy. As I intend 
plowing under the Crimson clover for potatoes, 
it will hardly catch up with the Red. The Crim¬ 
son is from three to six inches high; the soil is the 
same, and was in oats last year. c. c. 
Buncombe County, N. C. 
Last fall, I sowed two acres from which pota¬ 
toes had been dug, with Crimson clover. The first 
acre was sowed August 20. We had a heavy rain 
next day, and in four days it was up; it made 
quite a good growth before winter. The second 
acre was sowed September 10, and came up in 
less than a week, but was quite small when the 
ground froze. It all looked well till the February 
blizzard; that killed the tops, bxit not the roots. 
In March, the ground froze and thawed nearly 
evei-y night for the whole month; that thx-ew the 
roots out so that it is all dead except where pro¬ 
tected. The last sowed stood the winter best. I 
shall try it again next season. h. r. t. 
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sori’y to say that both pieces came up very slowly, 
looked feeble and thin in the fall, and not a green 
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