People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — CRIMSON CLOVER IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

CRIMSON CLOVER IN INDIANA.

Crimson clover has been grown in Indiana several years. It has proved an almost absolute failure in some instances while in others verv satisfactory crops have been grown, It is, at best, a rather uncertain crop in this latitude, but it has several characteristics which make it a desirab le acquisition where it can be grown successfully. It is a true clover, but earlier, smaller and usually less hardy than the common red clover. It starts promptly and more vigorously from the seed than common clover, and this feature adapts it to mid-summer seoding. It comes into full bloom at this station, early in May, and is ready to be cut for seed about the Ist of June. It is an annual the parent plant dying when it has matured its seed.

Being an annual and unable to endure severe winters, crimson clover cannot take rank as a staple crop in Indiana. It is however, well fitted to be a “catch crop,” because, under favorable conditions as to moisture, a “catch” can be secured in July and even in August, in which case it will furnish winter and early spring pasture, or if preferred, a very early crop of hay or seed. If cut for hay a crop of corn could follow the same year. - Crimson clover is especially commended as an inter-crop between two crops of corn, the seed being sown when “laying by” the first crop of corn and the clover turned under the following spring, with ur without pasturing, as a green manure for the succeeding corn crop. In case of failure to get a stand of common red clover in wheat, crimson clover may be sown to advantage as soon as the crop of wheat is removed. This clover has proved excellent for pasture in the late fall, winter and early spring, and judging from its chemical composition. It will doubtless prove a better food or fertilizing crop than the common red clover. Crimson clover should be sown in July, or early in August, to insure a vigorous fall growth in which case it will probably pass the winter with slight damage. If it is to follow corn sow just before the last cultivation, using a fine tooth cultivator to bury the seed. If it is to follow wheat burn the stubble if possible, pulverize the ground thoroughly with diskorspading harrow, sow, horrow again with a tooth harrow and roll. The methods described above were successfully used last year in sowing crimson clover on the station farm. It is well to sow thickly—say 10 pounds to the acre—as many plants may be killed by drouth or frost.

W. C. LATTA,

, Agriculturist.

After having advocated and nominated Sewall for the vicepresidency, the gold bugs are pretending to be suprised that he was chosen. Their suprise neither suprises nor deceives others.

The Republican informs its readers that “F. D. Craig, editor of the Pilot and district populist chairman, is attending the St. Louis convention. It says he is a middle-of-the-road-man, an d dead against fusion with the democrats. On what authority does the republican base its information?

Republican and democratic newspapers are giving the names of hundreds of prominent democrats and republicans who

are leaving their respective parties, if either or both can derive comfort from the fact, populists ought to be happy.

Those who heard the Stump Ashby speeches, and those who read accounts thereof in opposition papers will never be able to aggree, upon the merits, of the case, because he that was there knows the truth, while the reader is made, to believe falsehoods.

Considerable complaint is being indulged in by repnblican editors on accoun t of their not being able to feel the expected influence of the money power. What a pity for them it would be if all their golden dreams should turn out to be simply filled case affairs.

The bewhiskered populists, what a horrible thought! men who wear whiskers are so lost to all sense of propriety that they are not ashamed to entertain opinions, and even express them in public Oh! the degener acy of the times, since the days of the Patriarchs who, that has worn whiskers has been tolerated?

At Leavenworth. Kansas, a poor man, through ignorance of the enormity of the crime, was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the federal penitentiary for attempting to use a cancelled two cent postal stamp. The same sentence was recently passed upon the treasurer of South Dakota for stealing 1350,000 but, the treasurer was not guilty of the additional crime of being poor and ignorant.

A political campaign fraud with weal or woe for the American people is now in progress. There would be no question or doubt as to the issue being favorable, if the people were organized and working with a singleness of purpose that characterizes this Order. But we will hope for the best, and believe that the chances are good for the crushing defeat of the money power in November.—Patriots Bulletin.

A New York special to Chicago Record of 20th. inst, reports of Perpont Morgan.—while discussing the probability of another bond issue,—as saying, in effect, that the newspapers are doing more harm by discusing the gold reserve than all other things put together. Yes keep the sacred thing hid, let no impious hand profainjthe holy ark. □ No doubt J. Perpont and company would be glad to welcome a press. Censorship. ■

The patrons of the Pilot will please over-look the many imperfections of this issue of the paper, the editor being absent, his duty to the paper and its friends necessitated his attending the St. Louis convention, in consequence of which the Editorial work devoles/ upon new and unfamiliar heads and hands, so we are constrained to quote the poet in behalf of the paper. Don’t view us with a critic eye. But pass our imperfections by.

McClures Magazine for August is to be a mid-summer fiction number, with stories by Octave Thanet, Stephen Crane, Clinton Ross, E. W. Thomson, and Annie Eliot. Stephen Crane’s story will exhibit the hero of his successful novel, “The Red Badge of Courage,” grown an old man, but still capable of a fine act of bravery; Clinton Ross’s will deal with Perry’s historic fight and victory on Lake Erie; and Annie Elliot’6 will depict a sprightly love episode in a Yale and Harvard boat race.