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amount of seed grain per acre. This increases tLe amount 

 and lengthens the period of pasturage. 



WHERE TO GET SEED. 



Crimson clover seed can be purchased from any Southern 

 seedsmen and from most seedsmen in other parts of the 

 CTnited States. Among those who have supplied the Ala- 

 bama Experiment Station with seed are the follow:ing: 



Amzi Godden Seed Co., Birmingham^ Ala. 

 Harvey Seed Co., Montgomery. Ala. 

 T. W. Wood & Co., Richmond, Va. 

 H. G. Hastings & Co., Atlanta, Ga. 

 Alexander Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. 

 Willett Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. 



Usually the price of seed is |o to |4 per bushel of 60 

 pounds. The partial failure of the last crop has about 

 doubled the price. WTiile this may discourage the plant- 

 ing of large areas in the fall of 1909, it should not keep 

 any one from planting a small patch, ^ay of one-fourth to 

 one acre, largely for the purposie of securing inoculating 

 ^oil with which to inoculate large areas next year. 



Tlie more thorough the inoculation on such "starter" 

 patches and the thicker the stand there, the more effective 

 will that soil be for purposes of inoculation a year later. 

 Hence, not less than 20 pounds per acre should be sown on 

 such small areas. 



In view of the high price of seed, it may be advisable in . 

 the fall of 1909, for those who are prepared to sow large 

 areas, loith thorough inoculation, to reduce the amount of 

 seed to 12 pounds per acre, an amount which is smaller 

 than was used in any of our tests, but which has sometime 

 l>een reported as giving a satisfactory stand. 



