Show clover in garden will j provide green manure it Is a very good plan to sow BOW some kind of clover on a part of tho the garden each year and after letting it stand one season plow it under for the green manure it not only tends to place the soil in better condition mechanical ly but the nitrogen the clover gathers from the air will be valuable the roots and tops plowed under will furnish humus the rest from garden crops starves put a lot of the insects and when the ground g goes oes brick back into garden it will be like a new soil of great fertility it la Is well to manure heavily just before seeding g to the clover as this will cause a heavier growth and the manuro manure itself will bo be largely avat available lable when the garden crops need it the iol following lowing years garden crops always get tho the best from rom manures after they have had a chance to rot well alfalfa la Is even better thaid clover and sweet clover will produce more rooi root growth in one year than either rind and the second year after the seeding the roots naturally decay and are easily plowed it produces a very heavy heary growth quickly the second spring and this can be plowed under then but tile the heavy roots make tills this pretty difficult though h it permits using the ground for cropping the same year liming the soil before seeding to any clover will be an advantage for it if the land Is very sour no clover will make much growth the first seeding to clover clove in the garden should be inoculated but after that if rotated every three or four years no further inoculating will be needed as the bacteria will remain there L H 01 0 kansas |