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with a grain drill that will properly do such work, or 

 it may be dropped with the grass seeder attachment 

 to the grain drill, as, for instance, when it is sown 

 with a nurse crop. 



Ordinarily the seed of crimson clover is not 

 sown with a nurse crop, but sometimes it is sown 

 with cowpeas. When thus sown the soil is more 

 commonly infertile, and the peas are grown to pro- 

 tect the clover plants in the winter after the frost 

 has killed the cowpeas. When sown with winter 

 oats or winter rye the clover is prone to crowd these 

 crops, as it continues to grow in weather too cool to 

 admit of growth in the oats or the rye. On some 

 soils these results will be reversed. But judicious 

 pasturing should prevent injury from this source. 

 When rape is sown with the crimson clover it should 

 be early in the season rather than late, so that both 

 plants would have time to make a good growth and 

 thus furnish fall pasture ; and if the rape survived the 

 winter the two plants could be pastured again 

 in the spring. 



The amount of seed to sow will vary with sev- 

 eral conditions. When sown as the sole crop, more 

 than fifteen pounds per acre of the clover seed should 

 not be required, and usually less than that amount 

 will suffice. Heavy seeding is to be preferred when 

 the clover is to be plowed under as a fertilizer. When 

 sown as part of a mixed crop to provide pasture, a 

 few pounds of the clover seed per acre will suffice. 

 The grower can best learn by his own or by his 

 neighbor's experience how to adapt the quantities of 

 the respective seeds used to the soil conditions. 



Cultivation. — No cultivation is ordinarily 

 required on crimson clover. But there may be 



