1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
323 
CRIMSON CLOVER FOR 1896. 
(continued.) 
scattered thinly a ioad of old manure; that held 
it down, and it looks well. This is my third fail¬ 
ure with it. 1 think that I shall Ret the hang of 
it soon. I am well pleased with the looks of the 
oats. I shall cut and feed green, and plant corn 
or potatoes. I sowed them just to see what they 
would do, and as an object-lesson, a strip of 
clover, 20 feet wide next the road fence, then 30 
feet of Winter Turf oats, then 50 feet of rye. The 
rye was sowed in sugar corn for fodder, which 
was drilled at the last working of early potatoes. 
Marion County, Ind. h. j. h. 
July 3, 1895, I sowed 15 pounds of Crimson clover 
seed on an acre of ground, with buckwheat sown 
the same day, and all lightly harrowed in. It came 
up quickly, and made a fair growth, covering the 
ground well when the buckwheat was removed, 
September 23. It was then about two inches high, 
but made no more growth that fall. We had snow 
on the ground nearly all winter until March 27, 
when it disappeared from the fields. At that time, 
the clover looked as green as at any time during 
its growth. We then experienced about two weeks 
of freezing nights with thawing during the day. 
That weather proved the death of most of the 
clover. At this date—April 27—there is only an 
occasional bunch left alive, and that has made 
no growth, though for two weeks we have had a 
warm and moist time very favorable for plant 
growth. A neighbor sowed Crimson clover after 
wheat, turning over the stubble and sowing with¬ 
out any other crop. His results were similar to 
mine—a moderate growth in the fall, survival 
through the winter, but death in the spring freez¬ 
ing and thawing. I consider the crop a failure on 
some accounts, though my soil may have received 
enough benefit from root growth to pay for the 
expense; that is not demonstrated. I shall try 
again. In both these experiments, the soil was 
a clay loam with a hard clay subsoil. w. l. 
Monroe County, N. Y. 
I sowed winter oats on August 31 on plowed oat 
stubble ; they were broadcasted and well bar¬ 
reled in—2*4 bushels on 1*4 acre. The soil is a 
sandy loam, sloping to the south and east, and 
well protected, of average fertility, but no fer¬ 
tilizer was used. They made a fine growth, and 
although the severe winter killed many of them, 
they are still quite promising, and are getting 
better looking every day. The oats have stood 
the winter quite as well as wheat under the same 
conditions. R- 
Perrysville, Pa. 
Last fall, I obtained three bushels of Winter 
Turf oats which I sowed on two acres of well, 
prepared land after potatoes, on September 7. 
They came up well, grew well and looked as well 
as the wheat up to the very last of February, 
when the blizzard seemed to discourage them, 
and they gave up the ghost. To-day—with the 
exception of a few scattering stools—they are as 
dead as Dickens’s door-nail. Crimson clover is 
a success so far as two years’ trial can prove. I 
sowed in the corn July 3, 1895, and plowed under 
for potatoes this spring. The ground was well 
filled with roots, and, I think, will pay well all ex¬ 
pense. My neighbor made some Crimson clover 
hay last year. w. L. J. 
Long Island. _ 
NOTES FROM WOODLAND FARM. 
Winter Oats. —Last September, I sowed four 
acres of No. 1, good corn land to winter oats, on 
corn stubble. The season was dry, and the oats 
did not make a great growth in the fall. During 
the winter, every plant perished. This ends the 
chapter with me. I think that some winters 
might be so favorable that the oats would sur¬ 
vive. I won’t run chances in farming when I can 
help it. I do not even sow wheat ; it is too uncer¬ 
tain in yield, and too certain as to price. 
Crimson Clover. —Last July, I again sowed 
Crimson clover in the corn at the last working. 
It made a poor growth during the summer and 
fall, and winterkilled almost completely. I do 
not think that we can depend on it here, espe¬ 
cially to sow in the standing corn ; the corn takes 
the substance out of the soil too completely, and 
the seasons are too dry. Some plants that grew 
up last spring and went to seed, seeded the land 
where they stood, and the result is a nice spot of 
green about there. Why these plants did not kill, 
I do not know, unless they are a hardier kind, or 
that they got a better start by being sown early 
in well-enriched land, not cropped. 
Alfalfa.— While I do not mean to advise using 
Alfalfa as a catch crop, yet I know that it would 
come nearer being a success in our climate than 
either Winter oats or Crimson clover. At the 
same date that I sowed the Crimson clover in the 
corn, I sowed Alfalfa. It made a much better 
growth and heavier root, and some few plants 
survived the winter. No doubt, in some favor¬ 
able years, it would do very well, sown among 
the corn in July. Of the 10 acres sown with oats 
last spring, I am very proud. It is now a beauti¬ 
ful sight, in part a full stand, and in part thin, 
but all of it a foot high against Red clover’s four 
inches. I have sown 30 acres more of it this 
spring, and most of it is up well and promises a 
good stand. It is a glorious success here and an 
inestimable gift to us. 
Shredded Fodder.— I note that The R. N.-Y. 
asks how the shredded fodder came out I put in 
fully 100 tons last fall and early winter, and not 
one ton in all damaged. Much that I had ex¬ 
pected to spoil, came out all right. I used much 
salt on it, and put it in as dry as I could get it. 
It nearly all heated pretty hot, but did not mold 
or injure. I would certainly have been short of 
fodder had I not had this reliance last winter. 
The horses have eaten no other hay to date, and 
have stood up to work better than ever before. 
Neither have they had any other grain than corn. 
Oat Hay—Is a great thing, too. I shall cut 50 
acres of it. J. K. wing. 
Champaign Co., Ohio. 
Abuses in the Seed Potato Trade. 
C. R. W., Ontario County, N. Y.—It 
appears to me that a word of warning 1 
should go out through the agricultural 
press, regarding the purchasing of seed 
potatoes, grains, and nursery stock. 
Since the farm seed business has reached 
such gigantic proportions, many dealers 
in produce have taken to selling seed 
stock. Among them we find the worst 
and most flagrant deceptions practiced. 
One very large dealer who ships large 
amounts of potatoes south, has openly 
said “If a man wants seed potatoes, all 
he needs to do is to furnish me the name 
and I will furnish the potatoes.” Thou¬ 
sands of bushels of Dakota Reds and 
Rural Blush are annually shipped for 
choice western New York Early Rose, 
and also any long white potato for Early 
Goodrich. Within the past three weeks, 
several car-loads of potatoes were loaded 
at our own station, for Virginia points, 
in which. Dakota Red and Rural Blush 
were mixed, and are sold to the planters 
for western New York Early Rose. 
While in Baltimore, recently, I was 
talking to a dealer to whom I attempted 
to sell a car of Early Rose. After quot¬ 
ing him prices, he said, “ You are en¬ 
tirely too high; here we have some 
Early Rose from your section, which we 
get delivered at §1.29 per barrel, and they 
are choice.” Whereupon he opened a 
barrel. They were choice, but they 
were Brownell’s Winner and not Early 
Rose. 
I have seen a great many articles in 
the papers regarding the sale of filled 
cheese and oleomargarine lor the pure 
stock ; but I fail to see in what particu¬ 
lar they are worse than substitution of 
seeds and nursery stock. Both are death 
to the honest producer, and a swindle 
on the consumer. In the case of the 
consumer of seeds, etc., the loss may be 
not only the loss of the cost of the seed, 
but the loss of price of the crop. 
There is no hope, at present, of get¬ 
ting any legislation that will put a stop 
to this fraud, but farmers can, by 
patronizing firms which stake their 
reputation upon the quality and purity 
of their stock, be reasonably certain of 
getting what they buy. In the mean¬ 
time, let every reader of The R. N.-Y. 
pledge himself to the standard of honest 
goods in every line, and death to fraud. 
Let him take a stand for principles, not 
parties, and decline to vote for any party 
which will not pledge itself to the sup¬ 
port of the reforms, even though forced 
to cast his vote with a slim minority, 
and it will be only a question of a little 
time, when like the farmers of Ohio, we 
can show a record in perseverance for 
these great reforms, of which we can all 
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