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 The Rural New Yorker says : 



Ten acres of good clover are worth more than so much wheat, if the value of 

 what is left in the ground by the clover is taken into account. When a crop of 

 wheat is taken the ground is exhausted of so much of its fertility, which is carried 

 off in the wheat, but when a crop of clover is taken the soil is actually in better 

 condition than before, and is good enough to yield a crop of wheat or corn. 



A Wisconsin farmer says : 



If you want to clear your land of weeds, sow clover and sow it thick. If you want 

 to grow big corn-crops, grow clover and pasture off with hogs. Plow up the land in 

 the fall, and the corn-crop following will make you happy. If you want to make rich 

 farms and make money, grow clover, corn, and hogs. 



Professor Beal says : 



Red clover is well adapted to many portions of the temperate regions of the earth. 

 It likes best a soil of clay loam, rich in lime, but will thrive better than Timothy and 

 most other true grasses where the land is sandy or gravelly. On good grass-land it 

 is usually the custom to sow Timothy with red clover, although it blossoms some 

 three weeks later. Many prefer to sow orchard grass with clover, as they flower and 

 are ready to cut at the same time. Timothy is well adapted to sow with the large, 

 late, or mammoth clover. 



Thera are some portions of the country where, owing either to cli- 

 mate or soil, red clover has not been successful, and in those places 

 some other leguminous plant can generally be substituted with advan- 

 tage. 



Trifolium medium (Mammoth Clover). 



The true botanical position of the clovers cultivated in this country 

 under the names of mammoth, sapling, or pea- vine clover, etc., is still 

 somewhat in doubt. They are usually regarded as being the above- 

 mentioned species, but are perhaps a variety or varieties of the com- 

 mon red clover, Trifolium pratense. 



They agree in having a larger and later growth than the ordinary 

 red clover, and on this account are for some purposes more valuable. 



The following records of experience may be relied upon for the lo- 

 calities mentioned. 



Prof. Samuel Johnson, Agricultural College, Michigan : 



It grows too rank and coarse to make good hay. For pasture or for manurial 

 purposes it might prove better than the smaller sort. When grown for seed it is 

 usually pastured until the 1st of June, and then allowed to grow up and mature 

 the crops. 



M. 0. Alger, Augusta, Michigan: 



Pasturing until the first of June insures a larger yield of seed, as it is cooler while 

 filling, but many do not pasture. I do not think it can be cut more years than the 

 smaller kind. It is said to stand drought better, but I doubt that. It will give 

 three times the amount of pasture during the season that is given by the smaller 

 kind if kept down pretty close, but during the fall the amount of pasture produced is 

 less. It is said to smother out in winter if a large amount is left on the ground. 

 Another objection is that it requires cutting just at harvest-time. 



