TOG Grasses and Leguminous Crops in Kew York 



can secure a sample of the seed he thinks of buying and send it to 

 the Experiment Station at Geneva and have it tested without 

 expense other than postage. Many of our best dealers are doing 

 this and furnishing their customers with the Geneva test. The 

 Experiment Station will not test seed for germination. That a 

 farmer can do for himself. With this I fully sympathize; it is 

 poor policy for the state or Government to do for a man what is 

 within his own power of accomplishment, for to do this develops 

 a class of weaklings. Seed sowm in a pan of earth behind the 

 kitchen stove will give a pretty fair idea of its germinating power, 

 if one does not care to take the more elaborate plan of a test box. 



INSECTS AND DISEASE 



These are often serious obstacles in clover growing and not so 

 much within the control of the farmer as are the other causes of 

 failure cited. Were it not for some things beyond our control, 

 '^ we should be as gods knowing good and evil," and success would 

 be so assured that it would not be worth attaining. Matter relating 

 to these dithculties will be found on pages 2898-2903. 



CONCLUSIONS 



If one will study his conditions and take means to overcome 

 the causes of failure, clovei* will be as certain as any crop on the 

 farm — much easier to write about than to do, I know, but only 

 those things that require eilort are worth the doing. 



It is much easier, as well as more economical, to learn under- 

 lying principles and then strive to work in harmony with them 

 than to charge failure to bad luck, change of seasons, or failure to 

 do the work in the right phase of the moon or the sight sign of 

 the zodiac. 



