Show TO MAKE GLOVER Must Prepare Soil Carefully Select Only Very Best Seed and Put It In Right It Is Ig no wonder there are arc noW man many oats the because poor stands of clover clot r and clover cloer seeding is 15 done wIth a rush Tlc The oats ants are arc sown and only half haIr done too thick and the clover Is given Ien sec second end ond consIderation Farmers not expect to succeed less careful methods metho s h with clover by any other In Insure success then thun those that and aud that the farmer lines or of farming roust must think moro mere of oC tho thic cloer than he does docs of oC the nurse crop cropIn cropIn In the exceptionally dry year car of when the clover clovel plants on all au ordinary dle died there ther was a athie Wisconsin soil In fine thie thrifty stand upon a strip of of virgIn I i had stood soil Mil where an old rail mil fence Cence neighboring ground would I All the tho have grown clover fifty years ears before I that time but the continual cropping the humus supply from hOd 1 exhausted the soil soli so that It did not ot retain suf lui moisture for tor clover growth The trouble to set get a stand of oC clover today toda results from froim farming the land to death It Is exhausted of Its and unable to retain moisture for or the young clover plants ina In Ina a dry tIme It takes good ground to grow clover cloer The soil cnn can hI 10 made so rich that It cannot help but grow clover clovel A man manS took a timber farm anti and by S It brought It up to a point where It grows Immense crops of corn J on oats ts and clover f C i 4 Time The farmer armer will never get his ground j to grow clover by selling the crops crop 1 j I from rom time tho farm and not returning any ony anyS S J 4 S timing thinS to the land It If the tho ground now crows cloer well It will not continuo continue io do so 80 If IC the products are arc removed L I from the land year after year car II Even time the man who grows corn oats I arid clover cloer In rotation sellIng timo tho prod prodS S lIrt and i lo I the fis soil II S sure to come orne to a time whan he I cannot cannot grow clover There is 15 not a I IS S farm In tim tho countr so rich In plant food that It can stand such Timis It Is true o of time the black soil aa u well as the othon S S Ii If we have good ground we wa will have moisture for Cor ground Is 1 good ii In pro PIO proportion portion as It ha 13 supplied with humus i 1 and humus l I the element clement that will re moisture In iii a dry cir time lime to furnish for growing plants Time The ideal seed eed bed la Ii not newly i plowed ground loun because It Is too loose It will df dry out too read readIly 11 It Is not a good tIming to tIme the clover ground groundS S In the spring neither Is It necessary S work It with a disk or cultivator b Time Tho best beet seed led bed and time the one that thal has given shen me splendid results the tho past pastI I fifteen years eus Is secured b by sowing the tho thoI I I cloer seed on corn ground with oats as a nurse crop using a good grain S for ai both boil oats clover without an ally previous preparation or of tIme the ground Then harrow with n a smoothing bar har harre barrow re row once or twice or m all number or of times There Is no br of the water ladder and amId drying inG out or of the thesal sal foil I I Much or of the trouble In getting altin clover I started Is due to lo lh Lime hade or of the tho nurse crop It Is a critical forthe for forthe the clover cloer when imen tile the e crop crop Is re removed removed moved and a l good deal of Tile rhe clover cloer dies cues at this time lime It IL does nol dIe roam i leek ck ot of moisture because It previous I ii held Its own willie while time tho nurse crop I was taking from tIme tho What would you ou think of oC th the farmer imo ho would plant his corn and then them put puta n a shade over It it If it Il weme and compel compol It to brow grov for Cor three months In inthe the tho shade Then llen In tho middle of oC the summer summer III the hottest weather r re remove move that shade unit then blame the theorn vorn orn plant because It dies But this is 13 the tho ery thing that man farmers do with their clover cloer grow It In the shado or Of a nurse crop that Is sown too thick and the result Is small tender spindlIng plants What th the Clover cloer nCI dM Is th the sun sunshine shine fin from Crom time the time that time timeS S oed Is sown until tho ho nurse nUle crop Is ro 10 roS S moved The sunshine for tor thee lhee lover can be by l planting It with mm early oats like tIme the Iary ChampIon which from ten days to two weeks earlier than time tho late lato The rhe second help Is to manke malic a thin seeding or of oats not more mor than Quo ono bushel per micro lIere This may seem avery a very er small slOan amount of oC seed but I hoe found such a seeding a ery rood good one on br or the clover and also ulso that It t produces produce Jl faIr Call crop of oC oats S The rhe farmer Carmer Is very ven particular to getS get S corn planter which ime he cnn can drop n a certain number of oC kernels tar hili knowing that too to mans man stalks will reduce tIme the yIeld But the farmer ull es no imo such h pains with oats He mi un sender and usually three or f four ur bushel per acre getting a dense Rhade for Cor time the clover a lot oC o ani and small of oats Many lan n a Carmer thinks morn more of oC the thet th 14 t 1 or of oats than time the catch or of clover and spoils tile the chance for clover b bhea by hea seedinG of o oats Ie IC the drill Is driven north an and south In sowIng 1010 the seed the sun shines dl di down on time the young oung clover In time the middle of time the day when It e exerts Its great power |