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clover and which is of a crimson or scarlet color. The plant 

 grows 16 to 28 inches high, makes good pasturage, and 

 excellent hay if cut in time. Its chief value in the South will 

 doubtless be as a green manure for improving the soil of old 

 cotton and corn fields. 



It can be sown among the standing cotton stalks in 

 October and covered with a V- harrow or cultivator, and can 

 be plowed under the following April in time for summer 

 crops. Sown here as late as November 6 among cotton stalks 

 it attained a height of 14 to 26 inches. The amount of 

 cleaned seed required to seed an acre is 15 to 20 pounds, and 

 the cost is usually 5 cents per pound, the seed for an acre 

 costing 75 cents to $1.00. 



Hairy vetch is also an annual leguminous plant, making 

 its growth during the same period as crimson clover and 

 useful for the same purposes. It is a vine-like growth, and for 

 support should be sown with some erect plant, as one of the 

 grains. For sowing with vetch Myer's turf oat has been 

 highly recommended by the Mississippi Experiment Station. 

 Here this mixture, one to two pecks of vetch seed per acre and 

 one to one and one-half bushels of oats, has been successful 

 on rich spots, but on poor land an earlier ripening variety of 

 oats is needed. 



Europeans recommend rye as an excellent plant to sow 

 with hairy vetch, but in our experiments common Southern 

 rye ripened too early. 



If vetch is sown alone for hay one bushel per acre is 

 required. With the small grains vetch can be combined in 

 any proportion desired. The cost of seed is about three 

 dollars per bushel. 



Both crimson clover and hairy vetch should be sown in 

 the period between September 1 and November 1, usually 

 October 1. Earlier sowing is permissible on land not very 

 subject to drought. 



Inoculation Experiments with Crimson Clover. 



It is almost certain that crimson clover has failed more 

 frequently and more completely than any other plant ever 



