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comes nearer ^to the surface. Ked clover is almost certain to 

 grow well on soils that will produce hard wood timber, and 

 usually without inoculation. It generall}^ grows well also on the 

 average prairie soil where climatic conditions are suitable, but 

 these may in some instances require inoculation with soil taken 

 from a field in which red clover has recently been grown, or is 

 growing when the soil is obtained for such a use. 



Alsike clover has high adaption for humus soils. It will suc- 

 ceed well in situations that would be entirely too low for red 

 clover of either variety, for mammoth clover has much the same 

 adaption as medium red clover. It is because of this adaption 

 for humus soils that alsike clover is so well adapted for being 

 grown with timothy, as well as because the two mature at the 



Rating a heavy crop of timothy 



same time. But alsike clover will also grow well on soils with 

 much less clay in them, although the yields from these will not 

 equal the yields from humus soils. 



Timothy, like alsike clover, has highest adaption for humus 

 soils, providing these are possessed of a considerable clay content 

 and more particularly when they are underlaid with clay. 

 Timothy will also grow well on sandy and clay loams, particu- 

 larly the latter, when an ample supply of moisture is present. 

 But neither timotliy nor alsike clover is well adapted to light 

 lands low in fertility, and especially in regions where the rain- 

 fall is light. 



Red top grows naturally in low lands, that is, it grows at its 

 best in these, even when composed of peaty muck. In such 

 marshes as have grown wire grass before they were drained, red 

 top will usually possess the soils when the waters have been 



