Show GREEN MANURE IS VALUABLE crop giving luxuriant growth of leaves and costing little to grow Is most desirable by benil fulmon idaho expert ment station the benefit derived from incorporate ing green crops in soil as manure was noticed by the romans the value of green manure Is twofold green clover when turned in the soil adds nitrogen directly to the land later when the clover 1 being decomposed the carbohydrates which the decaying plant contains serve as a source of energy tor the class of soil bacteria that are able to gather tree nitrogen independent of a host plant from tho air into their cells in a form that will be later used by growing plants owing to the ease and quick ness w ith which these green crops may be decomposed the stimulation of he independent free nitrogen filing bacteria Is brought about much sooner than with dry material that Is coarse and difficult to decompose it during a dry spell the green ma nure Is added in very great quantities excessive evaporation may result ex perl ments have shown that the acid produced in the soil from this kind of Is not great enough to prevent nitrification the farmer must use judgment in selecting the most economical crop tor this purpose in his particular section the one giving a luxuriant growth 0 leaves and costing but little to grow Is desirable A plant Is as valuable in stimulating the free nitrogen fixing organisms pound tor pound as the plants of the oua family the fact that a plant Is not from the legume family does not keep it from being of value as manure this form of bids fair to receive a great deal more of attention in the near future |