Show THC CLOVER cloven FIELD tho 1 ecat the alio co Is teeth close pasturing young clover after harvest esthe ia the general custom but somo farmers think mowing instead has advantages that cannot be ignored if tho the best results aro to bo be secured tho the objections to pasturing aro are that stock invariably eat cat where the grass is weakest leaving the rankest growth as a last re rc F ort fort tho the consequence is an nineven crop besides irregular fertilization of the soil the mower is far superior to pasturing if we aim at a clean field ind and fine even stand of clover and the crop when well cured into hay the principal advantages of this method are we will have a clean and even field for hay the following season but the most important is tle the gradual eradication e ef f bitter weed the worst weed pest on the ho farni farm travel over your broad country during the h month of september and find if you can a ripened stubble field with young clover which is not overgrown with bitter tarweed weed why should this intruder at every rotation of crops stand in its full vigor robbing the young clover of so much fertility which the latter should have pasturing 0 does docs not destroy it for the stock will no not t eat cat it except as aa a last resort and when cows cat it the result I 1 is bitter milk now brother farmer why foster this intruder at tho the expense of your better friend clover when it may be barred out asks a rural new yorker correspondent spon dent who no longer lonar fears its encroachment croach ment lie he says have you over ever thought of why or how it ii always on hand at a regular period of course coune the weed as other weeds is always on hand in in our corn com and potato fields but not in such quantity as in wheat stubbles stub blea the reason is that we have been growing a full crop of well ivell ripened seed on every wheat stubble field sown with clover instead of pasturing mon your young youn clover wheat stubble bitter weed arid and all about the last of august or first of september or just before the seed of L the weed is ripe enough to germinate cure tho the whole as hay utilize it by throwing it in front of the stock in the stable let them pick out the clover and use the stubble for bedding if a good growth it will be worth tons of lay hay in addition you have not sown a crop of weeds for next nest season but do not think you have done with avith it until you cease grow growing ing seed but just as soon as there is no more seed in tho the ground and wo we I 1 grow no reed feed it will no lonor longer trouble us and henceforth wo we may expect to grow pure field crops instead of those mixed with weeds in the foregoing plea for the new clover culture there is not so BO much difference in the cost of mowing and gnawing ingoff off the clover field on one liand hand the cattle eat off part of the grass there is no cost to the farmer in the harvesting the cattle however leave the weeds and coarse grass just what we do not want left tile the mower takes everything and later tho the cattle pick out what they want and leave the rest the only difference is that this selection tio n i 13 is made in the barn instead of in tho the field and the rejected stuff is put where it can do no more harm barm |