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before the timothy is ready and some of its nutritive value is lost. 

 This is the only disadvantage of growing the two together. We 

 have discussed in detail the curing of legume hay for roughage 

 under alfalfa. The same applies to clover. (339, 340, 341) 



350. Red clover as a feed. — We have mentioned that clover 

 ranks with alfalfa as a dry roughage for dairy cattle and that these 

 two legumes are in a class by themselves for the purpose. Every 

 dairy farmer should try to grow a liberal amount of one or the 



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other. Red clover is a valuable crop for soilage and may furnish 

 three or four cuttings annually under favorable conditions. It is 

 also a good pasture grass but one should be careful in turning cattle 

 out on clover the first time because they may eat too much and 

 bloating result. 



351. Alsike clover. — This clover is finding increasing favor 

 as a legume crop for poorer soils because it will grow in many 

 places where both alfalfa and red clover will fail. The big point 

 in its favor is that it will flourish on soils too acid for the legumes 



