1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
43 
■MTS AND CLOVER IN ILLINOIS. 
A reader in central Illinois asks the fol¬ 
lowing questions regarding oats and clover 
seed: What quantity of well-fanned oatsfshould 
be drilled pgr acre to get the greatest yield? 
Which is better, to sow the clover seed broad¬ 
cast when drilling oats or have it go down 
rhe flukes with the oats, in shoe-drill? 
Much depends upon the quality of the 
soil. Generally speaking, lH to two 
bushels per acre give the best results. By 
all means sow with the oats and cover 
fully as deeply. But do not sow more 
than one to 1)4 bushel of oats with clover 
if you wish a good clover stand and ex¬ 
pect it to live through the dry season 
after harvest, and sow an early variety of 
oats. J- H - c - 
Galesburg, Ill. 
I am not an oat farmer, but if I were 
sowing oats I would sow seven or eight 
pecks per acre. The clover crop is im¬ 
portant in this part of Indiana. We s»w 
in March on Winter wheat. Sowing with 
oats is like gambling, more apt to lose than 
to win, but if I had to sow with oats I 
would broadcast as soon after drilling the 
oats as possible. We would want the 
clover sown before the ground was rained 
on. w. t. c. 
Albion, Ind. 
I am unable to give you information 
that would be of value, as I live in the 
Winter wheat section of Illinois, and grow 
very few oats, as wheat is a more profit¬ 
able crop with us. As regards our clover 
seeding, we believe, as a general rule, it 
is our best plan here to sow broadcast 
about one bushel clover seed to 16 acres 
in December, and to repeat the same about 
the last of March or first of April. If the 
season is favorable the Spring sowing 
will do the better, but if it is a dry, un¬ 
favorable season the Winter sowing is 
most likely to survive, owing, we think, 
to the fact that the December sowing has 
by reason of the freezing and thawing, 
been worked more deeply into the soil. 
It also “comes up” later and is therefore 
less liable to be killed by a late freeze. 
Bluffs, Ill. R. 0 ., jr. 
Both oats and cover are sown broadcast 
almost invariably in Central Illinois. In 
35 years here I do not call to mind seeing 
oats sown except broadcast. There are 
many machines for the purpose, but all on 
the principle of broadcast sowing. One 
reason (there are several for this method) 
is the universal custom of sowing oats 
on the corn land, and to clear the stalks 
properly for the drill would cost as much 
perhaps as half the value of the crop, and 
that too at a time when there was not a 
minute to lose. Cornfields that have been 
pastured during the Winter, and some¬ 
times broken down towards Spring by 
dragging a heavy iron rail or something 
similar, the oats sown not less than three 
bushels per acre (many sow 3)4 bushels) 
broadcast, then put on a heavy disk har¬ 
row and disk them in. This is usually 
followed by the light smoothing harrow, 
but if they have been well disked you 
may be sure of a crop unless the season 
is entirely off. Clover should be sown 
after the oats, not with them, and after 
the disk has been over, but before the last 
harrowing. The same machine for oats 
will sow the clover, but not at the same 
time. Many fields in this vicinity brought 
a crop of 60 to 70 bushels per acre last 
season sown as described. G. 1 . F. 
Normal, Ill. 
The amount of well-fanned oats re¬ 
quired to seed an acre, for best results, 
will vary according to size of berry, the 
quantity not being so great for the small¬ 
er varieties. I have found that from two 
bushels three pecks to three bushels gives 
best results, when drilled, and a little 
heavier sowing is best when broadcast. 
As to the best method of sowing clover, it 
depends mostly on climatic conditions fol¬ 
lowing the seeding. The clover seed must 
be deep enough in the ground to be sup¬ 
plied with moisture until it is well rooted, 
but will not germinate if planted too deep. 
Generally in a well-prepared seed bed, one 
inch of covering is sufficient. I aways 
disk my oat ground thoroughly, and if the 
clover is drilled in with the oats, we are 
apt to get it too deep. Lherefore 1 sow 
my clover seed broadcast, on a well-pre¬ 
pared seed bed, before the ground has 
been harrowed. After the clover seed 
has been sown, harrow the ground well. 
If rain should fall, sufficient to run the 
ground together (form a crust) before the 
oats or clover seed has germinated, this 
crust should be broken. The harrow is 
the best tool for that purpose. I have ex¬ 
perimented with shallow and deep cover¬ 
ing of clover seed in the same season. 
Occasionally the deep covering has given 
best results. This will only happen when 
we have but little rainfall after the seed¬ 
ing has been done. Some of my best 
clover catches have been by sowing the 
seed on top of the ground, without any 
covering, but followed by plenty of rain¬ 
fall. One of the secrets in getting a good 
clover catch is to get your seed in the 
ground as early as possible. H. A. W. 
Wenona, Ill. _ 
FLINT CORN IN THE WEST. 
I have heard it stated that the flint vari¬ 
eties of corn are never grown in the North¬ 
western States. Why is this? Here we call 
them superior to the dents in hardiness, 
yield and quality of meal. reader. 
Maine. 
It is true that the flint varieties are grown 
very little in the West or northern sections. 
I am not certain but that it would be an 
advantage in the northern half of Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and the Dakotas to grow the flint 
varieties instead of the dent, which they are 
now trying to grow, as these are almost al¬ 
ways immature. The people, however, of the 
Northwest are largely from Illinois and Iowa, 
and naturally have brought along with them 
the varieties with which they were ac¬ 
quainted. P. G. HOLDEN. 
Iowa Ag’l College. 
Your reader is mistaken in his Impression 
that the flint varieties of corn are not 
grown in the West. Many thousands of 
bushels of flint corn are each year sold in 
the Northwest for seed. We are the intro¬ 
ducers of Northrup. King & Co.'s Mercer 
flint and also Triumph flint, which have the 
largest sale of any of the flint varieties in 
Minnesota and North Dakota. We will go 
still further, and say that many thousands 
of bushels of flint corn are annually shipped 
east from the West. Answering your ques¬ 
tion as to why the dent varieties are pre¬ 
ferred, would say that where they can be 
safeiv matured they yield more bushels of 
shelled corn per acre usually than do the flint 
sorts. NORTHRUP, KING & CO. 
Minnesota. 
As we have never grown any of the flint 
varieties and are not familiar with them we 
are hardly in a position to give you any 
accurate or definite information. It is well 
known, however, that the flint varieties can 
be grown in cooler climates and farther 
north than can the dent varieties. More¬ 
over. as the dent varieties have a deeper 
kernel, a larger ear and more rows on each ear, 
they are grown in the warmer latitudes, be¬ 
cause they give a larger yield than do the 
flint varieties. Through careful attention in 
the selection dent varieties are gradually 
being established that will mature even in 
Minnesota. Of course these varieties are 
smaller eared, and produce a smaller yield 
per acre than do the later dent varieties. 
Illinois. FUNK BROS. SEED COMPANY. 
The flint corns are grown considerably in 
the West, especially in Minnesota. Wisconsin, 
the Dakotas and northwestern Nebraska, but 
are not grown where dent corns can be ma¬ 
tured. The dent corn makes larger ears, larger 
stalks, deeper grains, and smaller cobs. Also, 
the grains are more starchy, and can lie 
chewed by stock without being ground into 
meal first. The principal advantage of the 
dent corn is in the greater yield per acre 
of both grain and fodder, and the larger 
proportion of grain to cob. Flint corn will 
stand tnore cold, and will grow and do fairly 
well on very thin land where dent corn would 
absolutely fail, and for that reason is grown 
considerably in the West and Northwest. In 
Minnesota,' probably half the area is flint 
Corn. HENRY FIELD. 
Iowa. 
Flint corn is not grown as largely in the 
North as the yellow dent corn : however, the 
writer must be In error, for it is quite large¬ 
ly grown in the Dakotas and northern Min¬ 
nesota : at least we have a good trade in 
flint corn seed in that section of the coun¬ 
try. There are several varieties of early 
dent corns that will ripen thoroughly as far 
north as Fargo, and pretty well through all 
of Minnesota, and our western farmers seem 
to prefer a dent corn to a flint. Right here 
in our own valley, which was settled by 
Connecticut farmers, there is no flint corn 
growm any more to speak of. We believe they 
can get better results and larger crops out 
of the dent varieties. Another thing that 
enters into this is that the fodder of dent 
varieties of corn seems to be preferable. 
Wisconsin. John a. salzer seed co. 
Your reader is entirely mistaken in his 
statement that flint varieties of corn are 
not grown in the West. The writer has been 
in the seed business for 28 years, and there 
has never been a year that we did not sell 
some flint corn, but our customers greatly 
prefer the dent varieties, because they yield 
better, and are considered much more desir¬ 
able for feeding. Flint corn really should be 
ground or cracked up before feeding to stock. 
In Minnesota and Wisconsin considerable 
quantities of flint corn are grown every year, 
because they can be grown farther north than 
most of the' desirable dent varieties, but each 
year the dent varieties are becoming accli¬ 
mated farther north and are driving the 
flint sorts out. There are some seed grow¬ 
ers in this State and Nebraska who make a 
specialtv of growing flint corn, and ship it 
for seed purposes to almost all parts of the 
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