One of the reasons for the recent 
inroads which Lespedezas have made 
on the Red Clover trade is the oft- 
reported failure, or near failure, 
with Red Clover. One doesn’t need 
to be very old to recall that twenty 
years ago the trade for Red Clover 
Seed used to get under way with a 
bang on January first, and that 
many of the reports of failure since 
that period have been coincidental 
with the increasingly late plantings 
in March and April. Perhaps, there¬ 
fore, the readers of the SEED-BELT 
NEWS will find the experience of 
Mr. Wells A. Sherman of the Bureau 
of Agricultural Economics, at his 
farm in Va. quite illuminating and 
worth while. 
MIDWINTER SOWING OF 
RED CLOVER 
For 50 years we have grown 
Red Clover with varying suc¬ 
cess in Fairfax Co., Va., 15 
miles west of Wash., D. C. In 
recent years we have had our 
best results and without the 
continuous use of lime. We 
attribute our better stands 
and better crops to three 
practices. 
First, we use only southern 
grown seed—Va., W. Va., Md. 
or Ky. 
Second, we haul manure 
daily or weekly all winter and 
apply 12 spreader loads per 
acre on the winter grain which 
is to be followed by clover. 
Third, we use a wheel¬ 
barrow seeder and sow the 
clover as soon as ground and 
weather will permit after the 
corn shocks are off the land. 
We can drill grain around the 
shocks, or even skip the en¬ 
tire shock-row, but the clover 
seed must cover the entire 
surface. 
The wheelbarrow seeder we 
find to be one of the most 
delicate, almost temperamen¬ 
tal, implements on the farm. 
It will not function over mud 
nor through snow. It will not 
do good work when bumping 
over rough frozen ground. 
It is harder than an automo¬ 
bile to hold on a straight line 
in a strong wind and the 
operator has a splendid chance 
to freeze his ears and fingers 
when the temperature ap¬ 
proaches zero. 
We begin topdressing as 
soon as the cattle go into 
winter quarters about No¬ 
vember 1. We would like to 
sow the clover by December 
15, confident it would not 
germinate before February 
and usually not until March. 
The earlier the clover is sown 
the more manure is spread 
over the seed and the less 
seed is sown on the manure. 
We find the seed germinat¬ 
ing and sending taproots into 
smooth, compact, muddy soil 
often weeks before we could 
push a seeder over it after 
the frost is out. We see no 
evidence of injury from the 
spring frosts or even freezes 
which always come after win¬ 
ter sown clover and that 
which volunteers from the 
manure itself has well devel¬ 
oped seed leaves. 
Instead of waiting to sow 
“on a March snow” or “when 
the ground is well checked 
just after the frost is out” 
we want the seed on the 
frozen ground ready to sprout 
jn the mud which marks the 
very beginning of spring. We 
like to have each seedling 
peep from under the edge of 
a small bit of manure, spread 
when fresh and well cemented 
down to the ground by spring. 
Manure spread in March and 
April is likely to dry and lie 
loose and chaffy on the sur¬ 
face, helpful, but not so help¬ 
ful as that spread earlier. 
Under this practice we get a 
worthwhile fall cutting in the 
grain stubble and either two 
or three cuttings the next 
year with some clover hold¬ 
ing over into the third season. 
♦DOMESTIC RED CLOVER 
Per Bushel 
V Trinity.$11.10 
♦SAPLING or MAMMOTH 
V Trinity. $11.70 
♦ALSYKE 
□ Square .$12.90 
V Trinity 99%.$13.50 
NEW CROP TIMOTHY 
Per Bushel 
O Circle.$ 1.80 
□ Square. 1.90 
*V Trinity 99.70%. 2.00 
♦U.S.VERIFIED ORIGIN ALFALFA 
Per 
Pound 
V 
Okla. Kansas99.80%. 
.15 
V 
Kansas 99.75%. 
.16 
V 
Idaho . 
•17M 
V 
Grimm State sealed certified 
.24 
□ 
ii ii it it 
.23 
V 
Affidavit Grimm U. S. Ver. 
.1814 
LESPEDEZAS 
V Japan Clover**. 
V Korean Lespedeza. 
V Kobe. 
V Sericea Hulled.. 
V Tenn. 76. 
SWEET CLOVER 
Per Pound 
V Unhulled Sweet.0634 
V White Sweet Clover *.0634 
V Yellow Sweet *.07 
□ White Clover 97%.20 
V White Clover**98%.21 
♦♦KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS 
□ Square 84%.12 
V Trinity 90%.13 
♦REDTOP-HERDS GRASS 
□ Square 90%.09 
V Trinity 95%.10 
V Unhulled**.06 
V Chaff**.02 
"ORCHARD GRASS 
□ Orchard 90%.....09 
V Orchard 95% onion free ... .12 
V D. E. RAPE .04 
♦♦LAWN GRASSES 
Trinity 100 lb. bags.$ .25 
Trinity 100 lb. in 5 lb. bags....26 
Trinity 100 lb. in 1 lb. Cartons.27 
Evergreen 100 lb. bags.20 
Evergreen 100 lb. in 3 lb. bags.21 
Velvet Lawngrass 100 lb. bags.15 
Shady Lawngrass 100 lb. bags_ .25 
V WHITE CLOVER 220 lb. bags.21 
V LAWNSPUR 100 lb. bags. 3.00 
LAWNSPUR 25 lb. bags.90 
*** SEED GRAIN 
Eureka Ensilage... 
Westbranch Sweepstakes.. 
Lancaster Co. Surecrop. 
Canada Peas .04 
Cowpeas. 
Soy Beans. 
Seed Potatoes. 
Sudan Grass. 
V Crimson Clover. 
V Hairy Vetch. 
V Austrian Peas. 
V Va. Grey Oats.75 
V FulghumOats.75 
♦♦FARM and TURF GRASSES 
V DALLIS GRASS.28 
V DOMESTIC RYEGRASS .04^ 
□ Pasture Mixture.12 
V Paceys Ryegrass, Imported .11 
V Perennial Ryegrass, “.10 
V Italian Ryegrass, “.10 
V Poa Trivialis.19 
V Chewings Fescue.50 
V Sheep Fescue.32 
V Red Fescue.40 
V Hard Fescue.40 
V Colonial Bentgrass.65 
V German Bentgrass(Creeping) .70 
V Astoria Bent.6o 
V Seaside Bent.65 
V Meadow Fescue.07 
V Bermuda Grass *. 
V Tall Oat Grass.15 
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