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TABLE •I RESULTS SECURED THE PAST SEASON FROM CUTTING A FIELD OP 



SWEET CLOVER ON THE COLLEcJE FAP-M AT VARIOUS HEIGHTS AND AT DIF- 

 FERENT STAGES OF MATURITY.* 



Fig. 4. Special shoes shown in Fig. 6 attached to the cutting bar. In order to secure a 

 s' coiiil crop the steond year, the first crop of the second year sliould be cut from six to 

 eight Inches ahove the ground. 



From the above mentioned test it is clearly evident that sweet clover 

 should be cut just before the blossom buds appear and from six to eight 

 inches high or sufficiently high that a few leaves will be left attached to 

 the stubble. If a seven or eight-inch stubble is desired it will be neces- 

 sary to replace the shoe soles of the mower with higher soles which 

 may be made of strap iron at any blacksmith's shop. The extension 

 shoe soles used at this Station are shown in Fig. 5. 



♦Partial report of project conducted by J. F. Cox and C. R. Megee. 



