Show TIME FOR AMERICAN FARMERS TO REAP BENEFIT OF HIGH PRICES FOR CLOVER 7 V I 1 I 1 akl 14 ja V W 1 rg rig 4 1 1 A 0 7 i 1 W jr W M t af harvesting red clover for seed present indications are aie that clover will sell at a very good flour figure for the next two years perhaps longer prepared by the united department ot of agriculture clover seed Is high priced and beirce tint anil good samples will com lexand ind that many farmers will vill be loath to any the united states department of agriculture however ever urges tha seeding of as largo nn an acreage as possible the best information obtainable slows that lint the foreign market Is quite ns as bare of clover seed us its Is our own the french and italian supplies tire arc sold bold out and there appears tobe to be no suri flus in germany or la in Itus sla this mentis means that clover seed will be high for at least two years cara to come if not more and those farmers who seeded last spring or who lio seed in 1020 will have it chance liance to sell their clover closer seed crop nt at a rood good figure this Is a time to look almondi and for amerl can farmers to pet get the benefit of the high prices before lu lurose rope has been able to get back to normal production pi end and the prices fall watch quality of seed in view of the high price of clover seed it Is especially important that farmers pay careful attention to 10 tho the quality of seed they buy tile the rotation relation between tile lie purity and germination of a sample of clover seed and its val ue to the farmer has fins been so frequently discussed that it Is ij not necessary to enter into details A tanner farmer pa paying ing a low price for a poor ioor lot of seed may really be paying more for tile the good seed that will grow than lie he would have in a scruple sample of higher price the only way to decide tills this Is to secure sa samples triples and quota quotations from rel reliable lable firms and have the pee feed a ail fan by the state seed 1 laboratory ab oratory or by the seed laboratory of the united states department of re the attention iori of fart banners Is if also culled very ery especially to tile fact that french and italian seed ped lias has heen been tind and 1 being imported into this country und that the experiments so bo fur far conducted by the department of af agriculture indicate that this his seed will produce a more subject to disease and less lers t hardy under Amer american lenn conditions than plants planta from our own seel seed in III sections where there Is no disease and tf if the winter Is moderate a successful stand of claier may ile be secured with imported seed but the chances chance against success tire are always greater lhnn when american seed farm erg era are urged therefore to insist upon a statement showing where the seed offered them was harvested nested Im it Is also ft time to consider with more lhnn usual care the means necessary sary for getting the most out of tile the seed good sown it will not pay lo 10 throw expensive seed tn in poorly prepared ground ns as wae so sn often done when plover waa cheap the seed tied bcd should be well prepare thorest the best way Is not to sow the seed in early spring on tile wheat hut to 0 o harrow it ili n on tho ho or to seed vi alth ith a spring grain in it well prepared seed bed seeding alone without vIt hout a companion or ernin crop will often be better hut but not always it if seeding must bo be done on rather worn soil it Is better to seed alone especially if tile beld Is not lot very ery weedy if n special seed tied bed Is prepared it should lie be well completed A freshly plowed and harrowed field Is too open for the best bost results the soil must he be compacted or the seed herl hed will dry out before the tip young plants get their roots down for far enough ve be sure whether lime lima Is needed another matter of the utmost fin importance Is to conel consider def v whether or not lint tile the field it Is proposed to seed needs 18 lime unless the fanner anner Is sure he should send a sample of the soll soil to 0 o ills his state station and inquire not far from 75 78 per cent of the arable land epst cast of the mississippi tind and north of the lie southern m houn boundary dary of tennessee needs lime iline to bring ft R good crop of clover tills fact cm can not be too strongly emphasized pha plin sized it if the lie soil Is sour do not expensive red clover seed on it let some one else linvs it but land need not remain sour A ton or two of finely ground limestone per acre will in the lie average case came put the soil into condition to 0 o grow rov clover it Is not necessary to put on enough to completely satisfy the lime requirement the Tonn sylvanin station him ins ghoul that n lime requirement of pound per acre or loss less did no grent brent harm hut but when more Is needed it must he be supplied it if clover Is to do well soil with a time limp requirement of 1000 bounds or more per acre will usually lot ninke make a paying pa ing crop of red clover f the wheat ground needs lime the ho lover should b bo 3 seeded with a spring iraln ral with aluie har harrowed la in on the plowed ground if tills can not bo be done the lie limestone inny amny he be put on tile wheat flient and harrowed in with seed though it Is dot so effective when applied in llila way any ns when spread on oil plowed ground and harrowed in Fil farmers look ing ahead for several reveral years should con sider timing liming the corn field next spring especially if tills in H to ie be followell followed by wheat with clover on oil tile wheat tn ili 1021 1921 corn responds to liming alining more than small grains do tind limestone put on in ili tills this way will pro prepare pitre the lie ground well for a subsequent clover caw crop used in ili tills this any the full necessary to satisfy the lie little lime require anent should be used ns as some will lie be lost in dral ringe water mater tint and some vill mill be removed by the corn crop A wilting of manure will kielp clover and on somo some soils phosphates tire essential potash la in scarce in some canes cages too potash gives gool good results but potash it still scarce anti its use ure will not le be wor warranted ranted unless tile farmer knows that it Is needed A word of warning must however be added in the of little lime Is tint not n fertilizer and if f used persistently without organic matter in lie shape or of manure or crop residues will eventually leave the jie soil the poorer when clover Is 14 grown tile the nitrogen will largely take care of itself but phosphorus oil and Romet sometimes lines will have to ix ile added us as solis bolls need them anti and most ell t nil all will thel alie mod organic matter qoon nod clover crops lie he tit nt tile the foundation of agriculture in ili the northeastern quarter of the united strafes fes on many farms good clover crops can not be produced without little lime but lime alone will not permanently help the tion A proper system of rotation i with clover ns no a regular element in a three or four year rotation must fit lie ile adopted for or the permanent up building of tile he land and then whatever else tile the land needs needa in the way of lime or fertilizer must bo be added thereto |