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ceased, and also after early potatoes, tomatoes and 

 other crops harvested early enough in the season 

 to enable its roots to get hold of the soil and to 

 make considerable top before cold weather. 



While it requires good land for its best develop- 

 ment, it is well adapted to light sandy lands if well 

 supplied with mineral food. It will grow later in 

 the fall than red clover, because it is not injured 

 by light freezing, and it also makes more rapid 

 spring growth than any of the other clovers when 

 seeded in the late summer. When land is light and 

 poor, a dressing of acid phosphate, say at the 

 rate of 150 pounds per acre, will aid in securing a 

 catch and insuring a crop. 



Crimson clover as green forage 



Early maturity is one of the most valuable char- 

 acteristics of crimson clover, from the standpoint 

 of its use as green forage, making it particularly 

 useful in rotations. In the middle states it will 

 begin to head about May 15, thus following directly 

 after wheat. Cutting should begin as soon as the 

 heads begin to form, and may be continued until 

 the plant is completely headed out. This period 

 ranges from ten days to two weeks. The dry 

 matter is richer in protein than red clover; and 

 the plant has more moisture at the same stage of 

 growth than the red. Therefore, larger quantities, 



