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where there is sufficient rainfall, but in the drier regions this method 

 of seeding clover is not to be recommended. The first fall it is used 

 for pasture; the second season it is used as a pasture and hay crop. 

 It will furnish pasture for about ten head of hogs per acre during 

 the first half of the season and half that many the last half, pro- 

 vided the soil is fairly good and the season not too dry. The hay 

 is excellent for hogs, especially for brood sows in winter, but does 

 not equal alfalfa ha3\ 



White clover is better used in permanent pasture with some of the 

 grasses, as Kentucky bluegrass. It will not furnish as much pasture 

 as red clover, but is especially good while in bloom during May and 

 June. It does better on moist ground than red clover and will do 

 very well on some poor soils. It is not reconnnended to sow alone 

 nor fpr hay, although the dry hay contains upward of 14 per cent of 

 crude protein. 



Alsike clover is better in some regions than red clover, especially on 

 low, moist ground. In some localities farther north it does better 

 and is a more certain crop. It will supply about as much pasture as 

 red clover, is seeded at the same time, and furnishes pasture for the 

 same period. As a hay crop it will not yield as much, but it is a little 

 better than red clover, as it does not have as woody a stem. 



Crimson clover has not succeeded well in the past in this region, but 

 is to be recommended for further trial as a jDasture crop. xUong the 

 Atlantic coast, the only region where it is largely and successfully 

 grown, it has been found that the hairs of the blossoms are likely to 

 gather in dense balls in the stomach and intestines of animals, espe- 

 cially the horse, and cause death. For this reason it should not be cut 

 for a hay croj) after the flowers mature. It is an excellent winter 

 pasture crop for swine, however, and will furnish more pasture than, 

 red clover. It is a winter annual, and should be sown in August or 

 September. 



The chief value of crimson clover is that it acts as an excellent 

 cover crop for soil during the winter months and prevents the soil 

 from washing or leaching. It also furnishes in southern regions 

 excellent winter and early spring pasture for hogs. 



BAPE. 



Rape is usually sown in early spring — in March or early in April — 

 in Oklahoma and furnishes pasture by May. The Dwarf Essex 

 variety is used. It is seeded either broadcast, at about 4 pounds of seed 

 per acre, or else in drills 30 to 32 inches apart, using 3 pounds per acre. 

 Drilling is the best method, as this j^ermits of cultivation. The plants 

 grow more rapidly and make pasture sooner. When sown in drills, 



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