TIME OF SEEDING CLOVER 



Clover may also be sown alone in spring with first-rate 

 success. I do not think the advantage quite sufficient to 

 compensate for the loss of the hay or grain crop that 

 might have come from wheat, oats or barley as a nurse- 

 crop. Clover may be sown in fall on land especially pre- 

 pared, usually with good results. Here much depends 

 on the nature of the seedbed, which should be fine, firm 

 and as moist as one can get it at that time of year. In 

 plowing land for fall-seeding of clover one should har- 

 row each half day what was plowed immediately before, 

 making it at once into a fine, mellow seedbed. If one 

 lets it lose its moisture after plowing one will hardly get 

 a seedbed in time for fall-sowing. The time of fall- 

 sowing depends on the latitude; in Ohio it should be in 

 late July or August; in Louisiana it may be in October 

 or November. . Sometimes it is possible to get a catch of 

 red clover by sowing in standing corn at the time of last 

 cultivation. In parts of Minnesota and elsewhere this is 

 practiced. 



The common use of red clover in America is to sow it 

 with timothy in \vheat. The first year after sowing there 

 will seem to be little timothy and much clover. The fol- 

 lowing year the clover is nearly gone and timothy pre- 

 vails. Afterward the clover shows but little. I have tried 

 to keep stands of clover more than two years by prevent- 

 ing its seeding, but have had rather poor success. I 

 have tried also patching up thin clover meadows by sow- 

 ing more seed, and this too has not usually resulted well, 

 the new seedlings not growing off as they should. The 

 best results seem to come from plowing red clover after 



