Report Volume 20-23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...it will be advantageous to me to plant next year a little red clover on my ground--not to plant this year and next year plough it up, but let that stay upon the ground. I think the advantage of our clover--it used to be in Ohio, and that was where we did the clover business--we thought it was not the advantage of our clover there so much that we would plant it to-day and plough it up to-morrow, but that the center would come out of those roots and make it porous and let the air and sunshine down into our ground. I want to know if that will be advantageous to my orchard. Mr. Newton--This matter of a cover crop was first suggested about two years ago to my knowledge by the Agricultural School over there at Grand Junction, and there are very few who have tried it in the Grand Valley. I don't know of a single crop of clover yet started. I am just beginning to learn orcharding. I want to learn more; that is why I am here. Mr. ("lough--I would say for Mr. Newton's information and the other people in the Grand Valley, Mr. Homgardner, of Grand Junction, had clover in his orchard fifteen years ago. The first clover I ever saw in this country was over at Whitewater and that was the Shropshire orchard. The owner said: "Why, I grow that clover here is so that when the apples fall off, it is a cushion for the apples to fall on so they will not bruise so much." That was one of the ideas of the Grand Valley fifteen years ago. Mr. John Hickman on this mesa has seeded down about ten acres in the old orchard. The north ten acres he seeded down last year and he has as pretty a stand of red clover as you ever saw, and they tell me it is worth just as much to the'land to plough a crop of red clover under after one year as to leave it there, so far as actual benef...