1907. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3oi 
CLOVER IN ILLINOIS. 
The present hiKli value of hay makes 
it probable that seeding will be consider¬ 
ably increased during the present season. 
The local weather prophets prognosticate 
an early season and this should favor the 
seed, though the scarcity and price may 
deter somewhat. This locality was form¬ 
erly a great hay country, and had a repu¬ 
tation in the Chicago market for its Tim¬ 
othy hay. Hnt as corn for a few years 
lias paid the best the meadows have been 
mostly broken and put into corn. Now 
that corn is our cheapest product, and 
bay paying $20 and upwards an acre, the 
farmers will doubtless with the unani¬ 
mity for which they are famous, resort 
to the opposite extreme. Such seeding 
as has been done lately is largely I im 
othy and clover mixed; eight quarts of 
Timothy, three quarts clover, with some¬ 
times one pint of Alsike clover make a 
fairly liberal mixture. The seeding is al¬ 
most invariably done on corn land of the 
previous year, with oats as a nurse crop. 
Oats are broadcast three bushels to the 
acre, seed sown together and disked in, 
lapping half. With the land in good con¬ 
dition this makes almost an ideal seed 
bed, and if done in March or early April 
is a very sure catch. As soon as the 
oats are off in the Fall the young seeding 
should be broadcast with good manure, 
using about six loads of a (50 buslud 
spreader per acre, (lover thus treated 
will develop a strong root that makes 
heaving with frost nearly impossible, and 
if Fall rains prove sufficient will often 
grow large enough to bloom before Win¬ 
ter and furnish some excellent pasture. 
A heavy hay crop, maturing from June 
20 to July 1, is assured for the coming 
year with an aftergrowth that can be cut 
for seed or hay, or may profitably be 
pastured with cattle or hogs. After two 
years of bay it may be ball plowed and 
brought into condition for a bumper corn 
crop. In this way the clover becomes a 
valuable accessory in the Illinois "round” 
of “getting more land to raise more corn 
to fatten more bogs, to buy more land to 
raise more com,” etc. A. K. PRICE. 
Kankakee Co., III. 
EXPERIENCE WITH FARM POWER. 
In reading 'l ine R. N.-Y. for March 0 
I see several«articles that especially in¬ 
terest me, and think perhaps my experi¬ 
ence may be helpful to some of your cor¬ 
respondents. 'I n R. F. D., page 210, 
would say that I have had good success 
in filling silo in the way lie suggests, 
though not with a sweep power. 1 have 
used a two horse tread power with 12- 
inch Smalley cutter and 24 feet of car 
rier, and have filled both fast and slow 
according to how I could get help to run 
it. Since corning to this place I have 
bought a gasoline engine, and consider 
them the ideal power for the farm. Our 
silo is 14 feet in diameter and 24 feet 
high (stave), and we filled it full last 
ball in two days. When it settled, which 
was nearly one third, my man and I 
alone filled it up several times more. We 
bad two wagons and would draw up two 
loads and run them through the cutler, 
and then tramp them down and get two 
more. As I had more than enough corn 
to fill the silo I succeeded in getting a 
lot more corn into it by this method. 
The gasoline engine was quicker to start 
than to unhitch the team and hitch to 
sweep power would have been. 
In regard to B. b\ K.’s query, page 
20ft, I have a two cycle engine made here 
in Home, five horse power, and while f 
know nothing of the amount of fuel that 
a foili cycle uses, I know we used !i'/j 
gallons of gasoline in 10 hours when fill 
ing silo, using a Hailey cutter with .'til 
feet of carrier, and we put through 2ft 
loads as large as the teams could draw 
with the corn on the ripc* side to cut 
easy. We could run a full sized bundle 
as it came from the com harvester right 
through the cutter without cutting the 
band, and did not seem to affect the 
powor tit all, 
A. C. F.., page 202; we use our engine 
to saw wood and have a 30-inch saw, and 
have difficulty in getting the wood to it 
fast enough; have, cut an eight-inch green 
hardwood log with it without any trouble 
as regards power, although that size log* 
are heavy to handle. I have also a feed 
grinder, a No. 3 Hero, and can grind 
from 10 to 12 bushels per hour of corn 
and oats, according to the degree of fine 
ness desired. I wish to express my ap¬ 
preciation of the good work 'bill': R. N Y. 
is doing in such matters as the A. J. (!. C. 
and the defeat of Representative J. W. 
Wadsworth. t. s. 
Rome, N. Y. 
Land Plaster In Nova Scotia. 
<7. TP. />., Nova Hcotla. Cun I plow a 
nod In April anil at once swat to gt'iiss or 
grain ho iin to have mi early past lire for 
lainlm? Having hail a need of good paMtur 
Ing for cows that I could not. obtain In Hie 
iiHiiat way of Heeding wllli a grain crop, I 
seeded for Home years With grans seed alone, 
using about Ift poutnhi of clover, equally 
divided Ited, AIhIIio and White, also 10 pounds 
Timothy and a IniHliei of Orchard grass, 
which Is a light chaffy seed, on land where 
potatoes were raised the previous .year, and 
well fertilized with barn manure; seeding 
as early In the Hprlng as Ihe land was lit, 
This gave a great crop of hay about Septem¬ 
ber 1, and would have been, line feed for 
lambs by July Ift, and gave good pnsture 
for some years. As to Hod land It would 
need to be well fitted to receive the seed, 
and I would recommend say 2ft bushels of 
Hole (clover loves lime) and from (100 to 
1,000 pounds of hone meal and If the land 
Is fairly good I think |l would succeed. I 
would prefer taking a crop of potatoes or 
turnips from the sod land and then seeding 
for a sheep pasture. 
A ns. The sod turned over in April is 
rather green for seeding with clover, but 
to seed tin- acre ftOO pounds of ground 
bone fertilizer should be used 'ltd Ift 
pounds of clover, Hutch arid Red; 
Alsike would be better, 10 pounds to tip- 
acre. The next best or best crop for 
feeding lambs is kale, the seed dropped 
eight inches apart in the row, and rows 
12 inches apart, with a root crop fertil 
izer in drill. n. w. pyne. 
“I Ik’s studying dentistry at a corre¬ 
spondence school.” "Rather an awkward 
way, I should think,” “I should say it is. 
He gave a patient gas the other day and 
then found he didn't know how to remove 
the molar. So he had to write to the 
school, and it was three days before he 
could get rid of his patient.” -Cleveland 
Plain Dealer. 
Wiiicn you write advertisers mention Tun 
It. N.-Y. and you'll gel a quick reply and 
“a square ileal.” Son guarantee, page IX. 
I How to Avoid 
I Stale Paint 
Use Carter Strictly I’urc White Lead, 
mix with pure linseed oil and dryer, 
and you will have fresh paint that will 
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Marks out rows, dcpnnlt.n thn fertilizer ami plants 
nil lull or drill rrop-i, fl to -if. Inchon apart. Kandlcn 
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QUAKER CITY 
GRINDING MILLS. 
For Corn anil Cobs, I'oeil mill Table Meal. 
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ENOUGH Ml BIOS of Carey’s Roofing have been put on buildings since 1K73 
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