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soil are quickly seen—with hay 
or clover, it often means tlie 
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Is Sweet Clover a Weed ? 
I wi.sh to start some Sweet clover, 
would like to know what you have to 
say for it. My neighbors tell me if T 
plant it once that would he enough: I 
would never get rid of it, also the rest 
around here would get it on tlieir places 
too. Is that so? Does one Imve aii.v 
trouble keeping it down after plowing 
it under? ii. i>. u. 
Sugargrove, Pa. 
No man who has ever given Melilotus 
alba (white Sweet clover) a thorough 
trial would ever class it as a weed or 
want it removed from Ids farm for the 
following reasons; ]. It will grow whore 
nothing else will. 2. It will produce 
more hay and forage than any other 
known grass or legume. 2. Stock of 
all kinds prefer it to Alfalfa or even 
grain. 4. Many farmers who grow 
Sweet clover do not feed an.y grains, as 
it is the greatest protein producer 
known. 5. As a soil renovator it has 
no equal. To prove this, plant a crop 
of corn or potatoes on a Sweet clover 
sod and compare results with those of 
your neighbors who want to class it as 
a weed. Should II. P. B. give Swet't 
clover a trial and later wish to got rid 
of it, all he has to do is to keep it from 
going to seed for one season, as it is a 
biennial, and the roots rot and become 
part of the soil at the end of the second 
yciir, but he will never want to do this 
if he likes it as well as others who have 
tried it. udoominodai.k. 
'New York. 
Sowing Fine Seed 
I sow (|uite a lot of seedlings every 
Spring, and I find eonsiderahle t'-ouble in 
sowing many of the fine seeds, getting 
them so thick that I lose many in thin¬ 
ning and transplanting. Is there any¬ 
thing I can buy to sow these line seeds 
properly? o. k. r. 
Maine. 
When sowing small seeds, particularly 
broadcast, it is almost out of the ques¬ 
tion to avoid sowing them too thick when 
sown alone. The best way to overcome 
this tr<)ul)le is to mix the seed with per¬ 
fectly dry sand. The propoition of sand 
to he used will vary, according to the kind 
and size of seed, ordinarily four or five 
teaspoonfuls of sand to one of seed is about 
right, hut for very fine seed like I'etunias, 
snapdragons, etc., 10 or 12 of sand to one 
of seed will not be too much. Be sure the 
sand is perfectly dry. Mix the sand and 
.seed tlioroughly before sowing, otherwise 
it will not be possible to get anything 
like ill! even stand of plants. And hear 
in mind tliat the mixture of sand and seed 
must not he sown any tliicker on the 
ground than when s('ed alone wiis sown. 
K. 
Potatoes Following Alfalfa 
I see in ii i-ec('iit issue that you don’t 
advise planting potatoes in soil that has 
been limed. I expected to plant seven or 
eight bushels of Irish Gobbler potatoe.s 
on an old Alfalfa jiatch which was limed 
five years ago. I have good potato hind 
elsewliere, hut I thought this would be 
an ideal spot for them. These potatoes 
will average a little larger than a hen’s 
egg. AVould it he advisable to cut them 
once in two, or plant whole? j. n. r. 
I’ulaski, N. Y. 
AVhat we advised was not to u.se the 
lime on potatoes directly, or not to jdant 
potatof's the first year fiftor using the 
lime. There would be little, if any, trou¬ 
ble on soil which was limed five years 
ago with Alfalfa. In Southern New 
York, and parts of New Jersey, a num¬ 
ber of farmers run a five years’ rotation, 
including both potatoes and clover. On 
some farms it is necessary to u.se lime, 
and in that case they use the limo on 
the clover and grass, which gives them 
four or five years before that clover land 
comes round into the potatoes. There 
is little danger then of finding a fully 
alkaline soil. We should certainly go 
ahead and plant the iiotatoes five years 
after liming. In regard to the i)otato 
seed, read the article on page 2.34, and 
if this seed is of known quality, you may 
safely use it. For the larger tubers of 
this variety we would slice through the 
center and make two pieces. With the 
smaller ones we should plant whole 
seed. 
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An Inteieitm^ laboifitoiTi Experiment 
In each of these flasks were placed 10 cubic c.m. of dilute hydrochloric acid. 
Into the left flask was jilaced a fixed amount of Caledonia Marl-Lime. 
Into the right flask was put the same quantity of ordinary ground limestone. 
Note the remits below — 
THIS FLASK 
after 80 minutes, had a 
muddy appear ,’11100 with 
little or no sediment—a 
convincing proof of the 
acid-neutralizing epudity 
of Caledonia Marl-Lime. 
The absence of sediment 
also showed its great sol- 
ubility. 
THIS FLASK ULi?"’ 
after 30 minutes, had a 
thick sediment at the Ix)t- 
tom, with the top layer 
of acid almost clear— 
showing that ground 
limestone falls far short 
of Caledonia Marl-lame 
in neutralizing soil-acid¬ 
ity. Nor is it as soluble a 
product. 
Marl-Lime is the most .soluble form of land lime 
known. It counteracts soil-acidity; makes big crops 
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