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CLOVER AND COW-HORN TURNIPS. 
When the Cow-horn turnips plus the 
Crimson clover idea, came through The 
R. N.-Y. it was new to us. We tried 
it this year, sowing clover seed with a 
little turnip seed mixed in. We were 
doubtful of the turnips for a time. 
When the corn was cut the turnips 
were about the size of a man’s thumb; 
after that we had nice growing weather 
and both turnips and clover did their 
best. We grow the southern horse- 
tooth corn for silage. This year it 
grew about 15 feet high planted with 
check row planter, and thinned to three 
in a hill. According to our crop of 
turnips, S. G., on page 6, January 2, 
will have to find some other reason 
for failure than the shade of the corn, 
for our corn stood up fairly well until 
cut, and we pulled over 100 bushels of 
turnips from our little cornfield and 
fed to the cows. We also had sown 
a young asparagus patch with the Cow- 
horns, where we got another hundred 
bushels, • making as nearly as I could 
estimate it, 240 bushels of Cow-horns 
we have fed, and we shall pull 40 bush¬ 
els more, from the . cornfield if . the 
weather permits tins week. Those from 
the cornfield a-jun.ahojut.three inches thick 
by six inches long with an occasional 
oiie six inches thick, the small ones are 
left on the ground. In our country 
many farmers think turnips are not 
good for milch cows. We fed them 
just at milking time, four bushels twice 
per day to six cows, and got no un¬ 
pleasant flavor to either the milk or 
butter. The cows will leave good sil¬ 
age for turnips, and they have saved 
tile hay mow. I shall try them next 
year. They do not seem to interfere 
with the Crimson clover. We fed these 
Cow-horns without cutting; my cows 
will eat a 3x6 Cow-horn turnip, but I 
would be afraid of their choking on 
fiat turnips of the same bulk. 
State Road, Del, A. e. r. 
TH E RURAL 
is usually done in the Fall, yet few 
farmers would care to make two dif¬ 
ferent mixtures for grass. We should 
either buy one of the best high grade 
grass fertilizers or use the following: 
400 pounds nitrate of soda, 400 pounds 
fine bone, 800 pounds acid phosphate 
and 400 muriate of potash. That would 
give about the following composition: 
Nitrogen. Plios. Acid. Potash. 
400 Nitrate .... 64 
400 Bone . 14 
800 Acid phos. 112 
400 Muriate. .. 200 
Crimson Clover and Buckwheat. 
O. E. A., Newark, N. J .—Will Crimson 
clover and turnips he beneficial and do well 
sown with buckwheat the last of .Tune or 
first of July? I have never seen anything 
regarding sowing with buckwheat. If this 
can be done successfully it would be a great 
help to us here. 
Ans.—C rimson clover is often seeded 
with buckwheat. If the season is not 
too dry it will make a fair catch and 
show 1 up well after the buckwheat is 
cut. YVe would not add the Cow-horn 
turnips with the clover when seeding 
to buckwheat. Among other objections 
the large tops will be cut with the 
buckwheat and make the straw harder 
to cure. 
A Fertilizer for Grass. 
F. S., New Hampshire .—Can you tell me 
what the fertilizers should consist of that 
will give me the best results when seeding 
to grass? A great part of my field needs 
reseeding, and last season was so dry that 
1 could not get any of it done. I did put 
in a piece of oats and seeded at the same 
time, but both crops dried up to nothing. 
I haven’t enough manure to give a heavy 
coating, and have to go at it gradually, 
but I thought I might work in some good 
fertilizers to help out. 
Ans. —This question is like many 
which come at this season. In theory 
a fertilizer for grass should be some¬ 
what different from one for corn. The 
grass should be forced in its growth 
front earliest Spring. Grass starts be¬ 
fore rtjhe soil is warm enough for corn, 
and unless it is pushed along while 
the soil is moist it may suffer if dry 
weather follow. Therefore we need in 
a grass fertilizer soluble plant food, and 
especially soluble nitrogen or nitrates. 
On the other hand, corn does not make 
its best growth until later in the season 
at the time most favorable for the de¬ 
cay of organic matter. Therefore or¬ 
ganic nitrogen is generally used for 
corn. The best of the “seeding down” 
or special grass fertilizers contain a 
large proportion of nitrates. This is ' 
not so necessary at seeding because that I 
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Total . 78 212 200 
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