CHAPTER V 

 THE CLOVERS 



Red Clover. Wherever red clover thrives 

 there is no more valuable plant than this legume 

 for making and keeping soils productive under 

 ordinary crop-rotations. The tyro in farming 

 finds his neighbors conservative in thought and 

 method, and may rightly see room for improve- 

 ment. He naturally turns to new crops that are 

 receiving much exploitation, but should bear in 

 mind that the world nowhere has found a superior 

 to red clover as a combined fertilizing and forage 

 crop for use in short rotations. Farmers turn 

 aside from it because it turns aside from them. 

 There has been increasing clover failure in our 

 older states for a long term of years. It has be- 

 come the rule to seed to timothy with the clover 

 in the short crop-rotations as well as in the longer 

 ones, and chiefly for the reason that clover seed- 

 ing has become no longer dependable. In many 

 regions the proportion of timothy seed used per 



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