CROPS AND SOIL IMPROVEMENT 



dining on account of lack of lime, one may see 

 some alsike. The rule is to mix alsike with the 

 red at the rate of one or two bushels of the former 

 to six bushels of the latter. As the seed of the 

 alsike is hardly half as large as that of the red, the 

 proportion in the mixture is greater than some 

 farmers realize. The practice is an excellent one 

 where the red will not thrive, and the alsike adds 

 fertility, but when the soil has been made alkaline, 

 the red clover should have nearly all the room. 

 Alsike is a heavy producer of seed. 



Crimson Clover. Wherever crimson clover 

 is sufficiently hardy to withstand the winter, as 

 in Delaware and New Jersey, it is a valuable 

 aid in maintaining and increasing soil fertility. 

 It is a winter annual, like winter wheat, and should 

 be seeded in the latter half of summer, according 

 to latitude. It comes into bloom in late spring. 

 The plant has a tap-root of good length, but in 

 total weight of roots is much inferior to the red. 

 This clover, however, compares favorably with 

 red clover in the total amount of nitrogen added 

 to the soil by the entire plant when grown under 

 favorable conditions. It is peculiarly fitted for 

 a cover crop in orchards and wherever spring 

 crops are removed as early as August, or a seeding 



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