. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Farmers' Week in Agricultural College. 153 no clover at all is very marked. This line is the boundary between manure and no manure. The seed, of course, was sown over the entire field alike. A much better growth of clover could not be secured under any circumstances than was found where the manure was spread; where- as, where there was no manure, nothing existed but a very poor growth of timothy, a few stunted weeds, sorrel,*' and bare ground, the bare white ground predomi
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Farmers' Week in Agricultural College. 153 no clover at all is very marked. This line is the boundary between manure and no manure. The seed, of course, was sown over the entire field alike. A much better growth of clover could not be secured under any circumstances than was found where the manure was spread; where- as, where there was no manure, nothing existed but a very poor growth of timothy, a few stunted weeds, sorrel,*' and bare ground, the bare white ground Fig. 1 The eflfects of a light top dressing of manure. Where the manure was spread it was very noticeable that all of the sorrel had disappeared and nothing but clover grew. The clover had so thoroughly taken possession of the soil that the sorrel had been completely smothered out, proving that the smothering out process is one and possibly the only successful way of getting rid of sorrel. Anything that makes clover or other crops grow so thickly and so *It might be well to state that in some sections sorrel (Rumex Acetosella) is not common. It is found in great abundance, however, in the eastern and southern part of Ohio, and seems to be most abundant on soils of shale and sandstone origin. It is usually considered as indicating the lack of lime. This, however, should not be understood to mean that an application of lime will kill it, except as it might cause clover or other dense-growing crops to grow more vigorously and smother it out. It has been found growing vigorously in the edge of a pile of pulverized limestone. Sorrel should not be taken as an absolutely certain indication that an application of lime is entirely necessary for the growing of clover without some further investigation along this line by experimenting with lima itself. The ether factors, such as methods of seeding, applying manure, etc., which are being set forth in this circular, ought to be stu
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