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partially inoculated, again sow crimson clover tliere next 

 season. 



After one crimson clover crop, ii-cll inoculated as shown 

 by abundance of tubercles, grown for one season on the 

 "starter" patch, use soil from this to inoculate larger areas. 

 Or, the next April locate in pastures, etc., spots of annual 

 white clover in bloom, and place stakes at each corner of 

 such spots, so that inoculating soil from these spots can be 

 used the following September when the annual white clover 

 is dead. 



WHAT SOILS DO XOT NEED INOCULATION. 



To SOW crimson clover without inoculation means on 

 most soils in Alabama complete failure. However, there 

 are a few fields that do not require it. Such are fields 

 wherie there have been, in the preceding year or two, success- 

 iful growths of red, or crimson, or white, or other true 

 clover, (not lespedeza). 



BENEFITS OF INOCULATION TO CRIMSON CLOVER CROP. 



There are two, viz., (1) increase in the yield of crimson 

 clover, and (2), increased fertilizing effect of crimson 

 clover, as shown in yields of subsequent crops of corn, 

 sorghum, etc. All the experiments here mentioned were 

 made on the Experiment Station Farm at Auburn. In all 

 those mentioned iu this section the inoculating material 

 was soil from an older crimson clover field, applied broad- 

 cast at the rate of at least one ton per acre at the time 

 of sowing the seed. 



In May. 1903, on reddish sandy upland loam soil (Cecil 

 series), where a moderate dressing of stable manure had 

 been used on the preceding crop of small grain, the yields 

 of crimson clover hay were as follows : 



Inoculated 6100 lbs. per acre 



Not inoculated 000 lbs. per acre 



Gain from inoculation 6100 lbs. per acre 



