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been but one complete failure, caused by killing out in the 
snowless winter of ’97—’98, when similar results were ob- 
tained all over the state. More important still, the clover 
seems to do well upon the lighter soils as well as the low 
and heavy fields. In table CI, 1897 with timothy yielding 
.74 tons, Red Clover yielded 2.3 tons per acre and gave in 
addition a second crop. 
In 1899, 26.9 acres sown to clover gave 64 tons, or 2.42 
tons per acre. The winter of 1899 and 1900, and the 
drought in spring of 1900 injured the clover so that there 
was very little in the first crop, but curiously enough, it 
came in after the first cutting of the meadow, and produced 
a_very fair/second crop. 
In 1901 11.8 acres produced 19.5 tons of clover or 1.68 
tons per acre. Eight acres of this was rough, rocky anda 
part of it swampy. In 1902, 42.1 acres were in clover, and 
the crop yielded 46.5 tons an average of 2.10 tons per acre. 
In 1900 the drought injured the catchon one field and it was 
plowed up, but other fields sown this vear gave in 1901 from 
1.4 to 3.3 tons per acre of clover. Thus out of six crops 
there has never been a failure to catch, and but one complete 
crop failure due to winter killing, and one partial one from 
drought. The four full crops averaged for all fields and all 
four seasons, 2.13 tons per acre for the first crop. The 
second crop has averaged about .75 tons, but has not al- 
ways been cut. 
In the comparison of red clover with mammoth and 
alsike clover, the second crop, and the subsequent yields 
must be considered. Red clover will, as shown, produce a 
heavy crop the vear following the seeding, and in the fall of 
the sanie season will vive a second cut of a ton or less. This 
practically exhausts it four hay, and there will not be a crop 
on the land the next year. There may beconsiderable clover, 
but it will be scattered and thin. Theroot of each red clover 
plant lives usually for but two seasons, and whatever clover 
appears the third year is the result of natural seeding. Not 
cutting the second crop but pastari-g it, will as this crop 
generally bears the seed, resultin more clover appearing inthe 
meadow next year, but the main crop will even then be the 
other grass sown with the clover, or lacking this, wild grass 
