People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Directors Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Directors Meeting.

The directors of the Pilot Publishing Company are called to meet at the Nowels House, Rensselaer, Saturday Feb. 20.1897, at one o’clock p. m. There is business of importance to come before the meeting. D. B. Nowels, President, James Pierce, Secretary.

A writer in one of our agricultural exchanges, in speaking of the best time to sow clover seed, says:—Select a calm morning when the ground is frozen solid enough to hold a person up, and when it is likely to thaw during the day, from my experience, the best time is any time from the middle of February to the middle of March, when the conditions are favorable. If sown’ when it is freezing and thawing, it works the seed into the ground so that the wind cannot blow the seed away, and it does not come up soon and is not as lialbe to be injured by late freezing as when sown later. It also stands the dry weather of May and June much better. My rule is to sow a bushel of clover seed to eight acres, and in seventeen years experience have never failed to get a good stand.—Ex.