IIO CLOVERS 



likely to be benefited to an extent tnat will far more 

 than repay the outlay involved in labor and seed. 



If the clover has been sown for pasture, the re- 

 newal of the same on higher ground may be made 

 as stated above, but with the difference that the 

 same kind or kinds of grain may also be sown at 

 the same time as the clover is becoming rooted. 



In pastures, medium red clover may be renewed 

 whenever the attempt is made to renew the pastures, 

 as by disking them and then sowing upon them the 

 seeds of certain grasses or clovers or both. The 

 disking is usually done in the spring and while the 

 frost is out for only a short distance below the sur- 

 face. The amount of seed to sow need not be large, 

 usually not more than 2 or 3 pounds per acre, espe- 

 cially when seed of other varieties is sown at the 

 same time. One stroke of the harrow following will 

 provide a sufficient covering for the seed. 



Clover as a Fertilizer. It would probably be 

 correct to say that no plant has yet been introduced 

 into American agriculture that has been found so 

 generally useful as clover in fertilizing land and in 

 improving the mechanical condition. Some who 

 have investigated claim that there is more nitrogen 

 in a clover sod after the removal of a good crop of 

 clover than will suffice for four average farm crops, 

 more phosphoric acid than will suffice for two, and 

 more potash than will suffice for six. It begins to 

 draw nitrogen from the air as soon as the tubercles 

 commence to form and continues to add thus to the 

 enrichment of the land during all the succeeding 

 period of active growth. As previously stated, the 



