Lynchburg Virginian

From the Baltimore American Farmer.

Sorghum Clover Seed—If you have not already sown your clover seed, you should lose no time in doing so, after the ground is relieved from the frost, and take our word for it that you will advance your chances of success by rolling it in. Indeed, we would both harrow and roll after seeding, with the confident belief that we would not only grow with clover, but that we should benefit the wheat crop, by encouraging its tillering. In advocating the sowing of clover seed we are prompted to recommend its culture because we conscientiously believe that, without clover and lime, no permanent improvement of the soil can be effected, on any lands which may have been exhausted of its calcareous element, or, perchance, may not originally have had it. This opinion, thus incidentally advanced, forces us to the confession, that it is useless to sow clover seed on fields where the soils are destitute of lime, unless ashes or lime accompany said seeding.

From the Baltimore American Farmer.

Clover Fields—If you have any clover fields—and we trust you have—sow on every acre a bushel of Plaster. If you shall have discovered that plaster has ceased to be as operative as in former years, make a compost of equal parts of plaster, ashes and salt, mix the whole together, and sow two bushels on each acre.