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A little agi'icultural chemistry 339 



The uses and value, 330 



Red clover in many lands 334 



Clover as a weed exterminator - . . 335- 



Putting in the seed 336 



Care of the young clover 337 



Winter killing and remedies _ 338 



The best time for cutting for hay 338 



Saving clover seed 339 ■ 



Relative value of dark and light colored seed 340 



Variation of red clover :... 340 



The model plant . 342 



Clover sickness 343 



Hoven 344 



Alsike clover 347 



White clover 348 



Crimson or Italian clover 351 



Lucerne or alfalfa 352 



Black and spotted medick 357 



Burr clover 358 



Melilotus, sweet clover 358 



Lupine 360 



Furze or gorse 360 



Vicia, vetch, tare 362 



Pisum, pea 362 



Dolichos, cow pea 363 



Lespedeza striata, Japan clover 366 



Prickly comf rey , borage -- 368 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE ENEMIES OF GRASSES AND CLOVERS. 



Mice and shrews 369 



Moles - : 369 



Pocket gophers 369 



V/oodchucks 369 



Insects 370 



Insects injurious to clover.. _ 371 



Hylastes Trifolii, clover-root borer 375 



Languria Mozardi, clover-stem borer ■. 37& 



Phytonomus punctatus, clover-leaf beetle 380 



Cecidomyia Trifolii, clover-leaf midge. 383 



Oscinis Trifolii, clover-leaf oscinis 385 



