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Study 34. The Clovers of the Farm 

 The program of work for this study will consist of finding 

 the clovers, wild and cultivated, growing on the farm, and 

 digging them up and examining them, root and branch, 

 flowers and fruit, and of making field observations on their 

 habits, conditions of life, enemies and associates. 



The record of this study may consist of two tables of the 

 clovers, one relating to the green plants, and the other to 

 their flowers and fruits, prepared with column headings as 

 indicated below : 



i. The Green Plants. 



Name (red clover, sweet clover, alfalfa, etc.;. 

 Duration (annual, biennial, short-lived or long-lived 

 perennial) . 



Height (average height in inches) . 

 Growth-habit (erect, trailing, creeping, etc.). 

 Stem (stout or weak, cylindric or furrowed, straight or 

 zigzag, etc). 



form (diagram of the compound leaf as a whole, 



including the basal stipules) . 

 color (light or dark green, markings, etc.). 

 margin (diagram of edge of leaflet), 

 fform (diagram). 



\nodules (relative size, form, abundance, etc.). 

 Grows wild where (in what kind of soil and situation). 

 Is grown with (what other cultivated plants, sown or 

 associated). 



Is fed upon by (what animals: what insects). 

 Farm uses (green forage hay, cover-crop, honey-crop, 

 green manuring, lawn-cover, fence-row cover, etc.). 

 Remarks. 



Leaves 



