ALSIKE CLOVER 2O5 



medium red variety ; that is to say, the early spring. 

 (See page 75.) Since it is hardier than the medium 

 red variety, the danger is less that spring frosts 

 will destroy the plants after they begin to grow. As 

 with medium red clover, it may also be sown at 

 sundry times, from the opening of spring until the 

 late summer when the opportunity offers, and when 

 the conditions for growth are favorable. For in- 

 stance, there may be seasons when alsike clover, and, 

 indeed, any kind of clover, will succeed along with 

 a catch crop sown for pasture or to provide soiling 

 food. But it should not be sown in the autumn 

 unless where the winters are mild, or the young 

 plants will not survive their rigors. 



Alsike clove'r is more commonly sown with a nurse 

 crop. As with medium red, the crops with which 

 it may be best sown are the small cereal grains, as 

 winter rye, barley, wheat and oats, favorable in the 

 order named. But it may also be sown with flax, 

 with rape, and with grain crops that are to be cut 

 for soiling or to be grazed down. 



The method of sowing alsike clover is virtually 

 the same as that followed in sowing medium red clo- 

 ver (see page 78) ; that is to say, it may be sown 

 by hand machines, with a grass-seeder attachment 

 to the grain drill, or with the ordinary tubes of the 

 grain drill and along with the grain. The seed is 

 very small, and, consequently, may not admit of be- 

 ing buried so deeply as medium red clover, but in 

 the open soils of the prairie it will sometimes suc- 

 ceed as well sown along with the grain as when 

 buried less deeply, but in many soils the roller will 



