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plot each of crimson clover and red clover every month. Both clovers 

 were sown at the same dates in adjoining plots the last day of each 

 month. The complete results cannot be reported until next year, when 

 the experiment is finished, but the condition of the clovers up to this 

 time (Nov. 1, 1896), may be briefly noted. On the whole the yield of crim- 

 son clover up to the present from these plots is apparently somewhat 

 greater than that of the red clover; its growth is not so tall, but it is 

 thicker. The March crop of crimson clover matured a crop of seed early 

 in August, but the plants instead of dying thereafter, as in previous 



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years, continued to put forth blossoms until checked by the hard frosts 

 of autumn. Late in October nearly all the plants on this plot died. The 

 April plot did not seed so abundantly, but the plants which seeded freely 

 died at the same time as those in the other plot. The plants which pro- 

 duced little or no seed remained green and thrifty. The plot sown the 

 last of May produced only now and then a blossom head and entered the 

 winter with a thick mass of verdure about eight inches deep. The later 

 sown plots were of successively smaller growth as the season advanced. 

 The plots sown after the first of August made so little growth, that 

 judging from previous experience they are not likely to survive the 

 winter. 



