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to result in loss from winterkilling. If sown after grain or 

 early potatoes, the land need not be plowed, but should be 

 disked and harrowed so as to make it fine and mellow. If 

 clover is sown alone in the spring, under favorable conditions 

 a fair cutting of hay may be obtained that season; if sown 

 in the late summer after some other crop is removed, a good 

 crop should be produced the following year. 









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Figure 116. — A good stand of young clover in grain stubble, 



450. Inoculation. In sections where red clover is com- 

 monly grown, inoculation is not usually necessary, for the 

 soil is well stocked with the proper bacteria. In newly 

 settled regions where it is desired to introduce clover, inoc- 

 ulation by means of soil from an old clover field or of pure 

 cultures of the proper bacteria may sometimes be necessary. 



451. Treatment of the Crop. Clover is seldom given 

 any treatment from the time the seed is sown till it is cut for 

 hay the following year. It is sometimes possible to pasture 

 spring seeding the following fall, but close pasturing will 

 reduce the crop the succeeding year. Cattle inj ure the young 

 plants much less than sheep or hogs, because they do not 



