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WHAT CRIMSON CLOVER HAS DONE 
Lived on “ Poorest Land on the Place.” 
Last August, I plowed a piece of the poorest 
land on the place, and sowed it to Crimson clover. 
It has lived through one of the worst winters we 
have had in a long time; not a plant killed. It is 
blooming now. Medium clover, growing on the 
same kind of land, was killed out entirely. I am 
very well satisfied that it can be grown success¬ 
fully in this latitude, 12 miles south of Cleveland. 
I have only one acre of it this year, but 1 shall 
sow a larger piece next fall. c. n. g. 
Independence, Ohio. 
Curious Michigan Results. 
Four of us last August sent for some seed to 
test Crimson clover on a small scale ; as we had 
been told by a good many that it would not do 
anything here, we did not care to risk too much 
at first. We sowed it from the fore part of Aug¬ 
ust until September. Three of us have a good 
stand of clover, while the fourth plowed his up, 
as it was not very good. One of the others has a 
light crop, while the fourth man and I have good 
crops. I sowed mine in a young orchard and 
garden for plowing under this spring. I am more 
than satisfied with the growth it has made, for I 
am afraid I cannot plow it under, as it is too 
heavy, and almost all of it is lodged, some of it 
being two to three feet tall. It is just going out 
of blossom. I think that, maybe, I shall have to 
mow it before I can plow the ground. I think 
that there will be more sown around here this 
year, as a great many have been here to see this 
clover. It certainly has behaved well for the first 
trial, any way. No fertilizers of any kind were 
used on mine. M. s. b. 
East Leroy, Mich. 
What / Know of Crimson Clover. 
September 19,1894, I sowed Crimson clover in a 
young grapery; it was up and growing the 23d. 
It made but little growth during the fall; the sea¬ 
son was very dry. In March, none was visible to 
the naked eye, but it came on and made quite a 
showing. I concluded that it was sown too late. 
July 31, 1895, I sowed tliree-fourths acre in a 
young apple orchard on vacant ground. It was 
out and around in three days. I sowed turnip 
seed on part of it, with the idea of winter protec¬ 
tion. The season was very dry, even up to win¬ 
ter. When the snow left in March, it showed up 
pretty well, except where the turnips had been 
sown. They seemed to have choked it out, prob¬ 
ably owing to the dry weather. An unusually 
forward season brought it on rapidly in April; 
May 5, I saw the first bloom. May 11 and 12, I 
plowed it under for corn; it w T as in full bloom, 15 
to 18 inches high, and in places, so thick that it 
was difficult to plow it all under. 1 counted many 
stools with from 17 to 25 strong stalks, and on 
each a blossom, from a single root. It was a com¬ 
plete garden, and a picnic for bumblebees. I 
shall sow it with a generous hand this year, in 
July or early in August. It will not endure 
standing water. Under similar conditions, it 
will heave no worse than Red clover. Last March 
was very trying on clover here, but the Crimson 
heaved hardly as much as other clover on ad¬ 
joining ground. I doubt it3 value here as a hay 
crop, as it cures at a season when we seldom 
have suitable weather to cure hay; but as a catch 
crop to plow under for corn, potatoes or beans, I 
think it very promising, or as a winter cover for 
orchards that are to be plowed in the spring. 
Ula, Mich. h. c. s. 
A Conservative Report from Michigan. 
For two years, I had tried Crimson clover, and 
as it stood the winters, I sowed five acres early 
last August, among potatoes and tomatoes. The 
seed lay dormant until the drought-breaking 
rain of August 23. It made a rather short growth, 
but stood the winter without loss. Of course, 
potato digging spoiled much of it. At this writ¬ 
ing, it has made a luxuriant growth, and is 
headed. Knowing the benefit of a cover or mat 
on our land over winter, Crimson clover is, by far, 
the most valuable plant known to me for the pur¬ 
pose. Incidentally it will furnish more or less 
pasturage in fall and early spring, but its great¬ 
est value is to supply what Nature demands, and, 
left to herself, tries to furnish—a covering of 
vegetation for the naked field. For a quick-grow¬ 
ing nitrogen trap, nothing equals it for our pur¬ 
pose. I expect to sow it largely this year. The 
soil on the five acres ranges from a light gravelly 
sand to heavy clay, and the clover has done well 
on all of it. It laid bare much of the time the 
past winter, and the ground was frozen 12 to 15 
inches deep. Crimson clover should be sown here 
about August 1, but I would sow as late as Sep¬ 
tember 15, if I could not earlier. I think that 
Crimson clover will be used more and more in 
Michigan, when farmers learn when to sow and 
for what to sow. 
We use no fertilizers in connection with Crim¬ 
son clover, but sow it among other crops, where 
it must take its chances. If sown alone, I would 
use 100 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, 
broadcasting it after sowing the clover. Our ex¬ 
perience with it has been where it was sown with 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
other crops; we have never sown it alone. It 
would not answer to sow nitrate, etc., with crops 
at the time of sowing Crimson clover. I use horse 
manure more than any other manure, part of it 
having been used in hotbeds, and apply it on the 
portions most in need of humus. On some parts 
of the ground, I have never applied any stable 
manure. At planting time, I use nitrate of soda 
in quantities varying from 100 to 300 pounds per 
acre. I have experimented with the best grades 
of various mixed chemical fertilizers, but results 
do not warrant their extensive use. I keep the 
land up with clover, rye and stable manure. No 
extraordinary amount of manure is used, and 
the land should be classed as good ordinary farm 
land, but not as a garden. I know of cases where 
farmers consider Crimson clover of little or no 
value, but so far as I can see the trouble is not 
with the clover. There is a certain and definite 
position to be assumed by all who sow Crimson 
clover, viz., sow in this latitude from August 1 to 
25, for no other purpose than green manure, and 
a mat or cover for the land over winter. More or 
less value may usually be had from it in pastur¬ 
age; also, occasionally, with a full stand, the 
crop might be allowed to ripen for seed. When 
too late for the Crimson clover, I shall use rye, or 
if sown about September 10, two or three parts of 
common oats to one part of rye. The oats will 
winterkill, but the rye holds the dead leaves, and 
makes a good mulch. This is good for sand knobs 
and light soils. Of course, I use Medium clover 
and other ordinary grasses in seeding for rotation. 
South Haven, Mich. e. m. haven. 
A Chance for Comparison. 
Two acres were sown on July 25,1895, to Crimson 
clover, 10 quarts of clover and 114 bushel of oats 
per acre on a wheat stubble that had been turned 
under and nicely fitted. It came up quickly, and 
made a good fall growth, covering the ground 
when winter set it. My idea in sowing the oats, 
was to furnish shade for the clover during the 
fall, and mulch in winter. Some wheat also came 
from the stubble, that had shelled in handling. 
During the winter, part of the piece was covered 
with coarse, strawy manure, when the snow was 
quite deep. Where the manure was put on, and 
where the snow drifted and laid on until late in 
March, the clover killed out badly; but where no 
manure was used, and where the clover was ex¬ 
posed most by snow blowing off in winter, the 
clover stands from 14 to 18 inches high to-day, by 
actual measurement, aDd is a thick mass of 
blooms. Where there are any depressions like 
dead furrows, where the snow stayed on latest, 
the clover is thinnest and small. Where it did not 
winterkill, it would cut fully one ton per acre 
now. I have plowed under all but about one-half 
acre on one side, and planted to corn. I shall 
save the strip left for seed, and test it as to hardi¬ 
ness, compared with southern seed sold at the 
stores here. I had to use a jointer and chain to 
get it under. The mercury went as low as 24 de¬ 
grees below zero here last winter. I never saw 
bees work on any clover as they do on this; it is 
literally alive with them all the time. I shall stick 
to it as long as it does as well as this piece did. 
I cannot see that the oats sowed with it did any 
good at all, as where there were none in spots, 
the clover was fully as good as where the oats 
were best. The soil is a yellow, sandy loam 
Steuben County, N. Y. j. e. p. 
A Worm at the Crimson. 
Beginning with August 1, I sowed six small 
plots of Crimson clover, one week apart, about 
two rods in each. The ground was rich and was 
made very fine by spade and rake. Following the 
first and second sowings, there were light show¬ 
ers, causing immediate growth ; but there was 
no further rain until about September 1. Forty 
days after the first sowing, I dug up plants hav¬ 
ing large strong root systems extending down 
about eight 'inches. At the time of sowing the 
fourth plot, I sowed an acre elsewhere on land 
not so well prepared, following rye. Of the first 
three plots, about all the plants survived the very 
severe winter (35 degrees below zero). In the 
fourth and fifth plots, and the one-acre field, little 
clover was to be seen when the snow disappeared 
about April 1. The other two were perfectly pre¬ 
served, and they presented a beautiful appear¬ 
ance. From that time, however, the plants began 
to die. They appeared to be rotting off just below 
the surface of the ground. There was no heav¬ 
ing out by frost, and when the earth was spaded 
over, it was found that the roots were all in place, 
a great mass of fibers. The decaying process 
seemed to stop after a couple of weeks, and the 
clover has made a most satisfactory growth, not¬ 
withstanding entire absence of rain. 
It is now (May 14), showing its brilliant crim¬ 
son flowers in great profusion, and will soon be 
a marvelous sight. But the plants are again 
disappearing, the stems breaking off below the 
surface of the ground, and this morning I dis¬ 
covered the cause to be the work of a weevil 
which I always find in the stem above the break. 
I suppose this to be the clover weevil, although I 
have never heard of its presence here before. 
Presumably, there is no available remedy in this 
case, and we may be forced to abandon clover as a 
crop. As for the Crimson variety, I think more 
highly of it as a medicine for the soil. To get the 
best results from it, I believe that we should sow 
as early as August 1, and make the seed bed very 
fine. One year (1890) by this means, I secured a 
growth of Medium clover, sown August 20, that 
was three feet high when cut the next June, to 
give place to potatoes. j. r. k. 
Onondaga County,N. Y. 
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