Crimson Clover 



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winter wheat or rye, oats, early potatoes, or sweet corn. 



Crimson clover, on the other hand, has demonstrated 



its wide usefulness on light soils as a fall and early spring 



crop, and is employed extensively for seeding in corn, 



late potatoes, toma- 



toes, and the like. 



Seeded in the corn 



at the time of the 



last cultivation, it 



makes a vigorous 



growth in the fall 



and early spring and 



furnishes an abun- 



dant quantity of 



humus and nitrogen 



for the succeeding 



crop. 



The light, sandy 

 soils of New Jersey, 

 Delaware and Mary- 

 land have derived 

 great benefit from 

 the cultivation of 

 crimson clover. It 

 was cultivated in 

 Delaware as early 

 as 1885, and rapidly 



crainorl in fmmr* i Fig. 43. This single stool of crimson clover has 

 gained m laVOr in eighty-six branches. The height to the tips 



, f *H? leaves is twelve inches; as it stood in 

 the field it covered more than one square 

 fc ? ot ' , Wi * h a generous supply of mineral 

 plant-food, the accumulation of atmospheric 



such plants is both rapid and 



Thp 



which 



Ptfpm in 

 esteem in 



it is held 



