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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 9 
CRIMSON CLOVER FOR 1896 
THE FIB8T BATCH OF BEPOKTS. 
Good, Bad and Indifferent! 
Crimson clover is all dead this spring, froze to 
death root and branch; not a plant alive. The 
grqund was bare all winter, and froze hard. The 
spring very late, and no seeding done yet. Every¬ 
thing is low in price but milch cows. No price 
for potatoes. e. p. b. 
La Plume, Pa. 
I sowed one-half acre of Crimson clover on 
plowed oat stubble, near.the end of July, among 
the corn. I sowed the seed on the freshly culti¬ 
vated soil, and brushed after sowing. No fer¬ 
tilizer was applied. The seed came up nicely, 
and made a fair growth, considering the dry 
autumn that followed. Repeated freezes and 
thaws were too much for it, and by the end of 
December, the roots lay mostly on top of the 
ground. A few yilants are still alive, but not 
enough to leave. I think it is a mistake to sow 
it on ground occupied by growing corn, and it 
may do well in a more favorable season. This is 
my second venture with this clover, and, although 
the second is a worse failure than the first, I shall 
try it again. j. r. s. 
Allegheny County, Pa. 
I took The R. N.-Y.’s advice, and sowed a field 
of four acres of corn immediately after cultivat¬ 
ing. It came up nicely in a few days. I never 
saw anything look so pretty, but the grasshop¬ 
pers got wind of it, and left less than one-half 
acre. I don’t believe that one root has winter- 
killed. It has been exceedingly warm here for 
the past week, 80 to 85 degrees in the shade, and 
that clover is just humping. I shall try it again. 
Sinclalrville, N. Y. b. c. p. 
R. N.-Y.—That is a little bigger dose than we 
advised, but we are glad that it came through. 
Last year, about July 5, a young orchard, situ¬ 
ated on one of the highest knolls of land on the 
Chestnut Ridge of the Alleghany Mountains, in 
Fayette County, Pa., exposed to the fierce north¬ 
westerly winter winds, was plowed and sowed to 
Crimson clover. The soil is light and sandy, and 
poor in quality. The clover germinated with as¬ 
tonishing rapidity; my hired man was willing to 
swear that it sprouted w r ithin 36 hours. It made 
a good growth despite the continuous drought of 
summer and autumn. Though in such an ex¬ 
posed position, subjected to successive thaws 
and freezes, and so swept by the north winds that 
no snow could long remain upon it, the clover at 
this writing looks finely and is stooling out nicely. 
I sowed another plot of ground—low and shel¬ 
tered—from which potatoes had been dug, with 
Crimson clover, about August 25. Owing to the 
severe and protracted drought, the clover failed 
to catch, and at this writing, there is not a vestige 
of it. Perhaps the most failures in securing a 
good catch, result from too late sowing as, doubt¬ 
less, in this case, for of late years, it seems, at 
least in this locality, that there have not been any 
continuous rains to sprout the clover properly 
and insure a sufficient growth to withstand the 
midsummer sun. It is probable that many har¬ 
row the clover too deeply; I would suggest that 
it be covered by a brush harrow, and the ground 
then rolled. Crimson clover, I believe, is the very 
thing for which orchardists have been looking, to 
renew the soil of their orchards, and to furnish 
the proper plant life for their trees. n. l. p. 
Jumonville, Pa. 
The last week in July of last year, I plowed 
under an old strawberry patch, sowed broadcast 
and then harrowed in Crimson clover seed at 
the rate of eight pounds per acre. I did not use 
any manure or fertilizer. It came up and grew 
well, although it was very dry all through the 
latter part of the season. It was very cold during 
the winter, but my clover is looking finely at this 
writing. The soil is a black loam. Many farmers 
here sowed too late, the last of August and until 
the middle of September. The result is that it 
died out because it did not get big enough to pro¬ 
tect its roots. m. w. s. 
Forestville, N. Y. 
I have attempted to grow Crimson clover for 
the past two years, and now am perfectly willing 
to go out of the business, satisfied that the plant 
has no practical value for this locality. With a 
light seeding of oats, I sowed the clover in April; 
a portion matured seed. In July, I sowed in corn 
and beans, and also cultivated it in pea and oat 
stubble. Out of a seeding of over 20 acres, I, 
probably, have an acre of fair clover. The small 
plants winterkilled; the strong ones heaved out 
after the first of April, and it doesn’t seem to mat¬ 
ter much whether they were strong or weak, we 
are short of clover. Considerable was sown 
in this locality last year, with about the same re¬ 
sult. One man had a 15-acre buckwheat field. 
When the buckwheat was harvested, the clover 
was fine; to-day it would not require a very large 
hat to hold the crop. A fruit and vegetable farm 
had, probably, better results; but it is surely a 
very unreliable clover for this locality, d. a. r. 
Kittanning, Pa. 
Crimson clover does not seem to stand the win¬ 
ters of this part of Michigan; not one plant in 100 
is alive this spring of that sowed August 8 last, 
while the Red clover is unharmed and, at this 
date, has made a satisfactory growth. Red clover 
does not kill out here, as a rule, for the snow lies 
on the ground almost all winter. Only twice in 
14 years, have I known Red clover to freeze out. 
The winter of 1895 was a severe one, followed by 
a cold spring, and alternate freezing and thaw¬ 
ing. which heaved out the Red somewhat. So last 
summer, I thought that I would sow the Crimson 
earlier than the year previous, which was on 
September 2; but poor Crimson is again dead. I 
don’t think that it will pay to sow Crimson clover 
here for fertilizer, because no crop will ripen 
here, in northern Michigan, before September, 
and this is too late, and it would make too small 
a growth. However, I shall make one more trial 
with it this year, and sow it with buckwheat in 
June. I rather think that it will more than pay 
for the seed sown, if it should die this coming 
winter, while the expense of sowing will not be 
great. J. H. h. 
Oscoda, Mich. 
Not long ago, Wallace’s Farmer said that they 
did not know of a single instance in which Crim¬ 
son clover had survived an Iowa winter in any 
kind of shape. They need not say that now, for I 
can report a plot, part of which has stood the 
winter in good shape. The seed was sown August 
2, and another plot August 22. It began to rain 
August 23, and both plots came up together, a 
few days after that. The two plots joined ends, and 
made a strip one rod wide between two rows of 
young trees. The strip was plowed, throwing the 
soil towards the trees, leaving the middle consider¬ 
ably the lowest. In this furrow, the clover is alive 
and growing. A strip about five feet wide has a 
good stand. Outside of that strip, there is an 
occasional clover plant. The reason that it did 
better in the furrow, may be because of more 
moisture, a better protection, a firmer seed bed, 
or a combination of these. Or it may be some¬ 
thing else. The winter has been mild and dry. 
The lowest temperature was 10 degrees below 
zero. There was very little snow, the ground be¬ 
ing bare most of the time. e. b. w. 
Newton, la. 
I sowed clover after digging early potatoes, 
say, by September 1. The clover should be in 
earlier. The soil was a sandy loam. Plenty of 
barnyard manure was spread on the winter be¬ 
fore The earliest winter oats sowed and har¬ 
rowed in deep, are a heavy turf on the ground, 
and stood the winter well; some sown later and 
not so well covered, froze out one-half. The 
clover set well, but during the winter, about 
three-fourths of it heaved out; except where I 
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