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Crimson clover, i-ed clover, white clover, and annual white 

 or Carolina clover. Fortunately, careful search in April 

 will usually be rewarded by finding the annual white clover 

 in practically all parts of the State, in old lawns, old pas- 

 tures, along roadsides, etc. Unfortunately, this clover dies 

 in May, the white heads changing to brown and the plants 

 soon disiappearing until the next winter, or showing only 

 a mass of short, slender, dead stems against the ground 

 under the Lespedeza, or other summer growth. 



White clover is not so widely distributed as the annual 

 white clover, but the former may be found even up to mid- 

 summer in some parts of the State in old lawns and in old 

 pastures where the soil is rich and moist. 



DIRECTIONS FOR INOCULATING SOIL OR SEED. 



The details of inoculation may vary according to the 

 amount of soil available. If there is an abundance of soil 

 it is only necessary to sow, immediately after the sowing 

 of the seed and before covering the latter, at least one ton 

 per acre of the inoculating soil. This method of inocula- 

 tion may be made even more effective by combining it with 

 the following method : 



When there is only a limited amount of soil a gallon 

 or more of it should be stirred into two or three times as 

 much water; the seed should be thoroughly moistened with, 

 or dipped into, this water and dried by mixing with 

 another part of the very dry inoculating soil. Whatever 

 soil remains should be sown broadcast beifore the seed are 

 covered. This method is not well suited to seed as 

 small as those of crimson clover. In this way 

 a few pecks of suitable soil may partially inoculate 

 the seed for an acre. A part of the seed would escape in- 

 oculation and plants from these would be small ; the thin- 

 ner stand of vigorous plants thus obtained would make the 

 inoculated plants spi'ead out more and grow not so tall as 

 they would in a thick stand with all plants bearing tuber- 

 cles. If much lews thr.n a ton of pulverized inoculating soil 

 is used, one need expect only a partial success with crimson 



