334 RED CLOVER IN MANY LANDS. 



Red Clover in Many Lands. — Red clover is well adapted to 

 many portions of the temperate regions of the earth. It likes 

 best a soil of clay loam, rich in lime, but will thrive better than 

 Timothy and most other true grasses where the land is sandy or 

 gravelly. On good grass land it is usually the custom to sow 

 Timothy with red clover, although it blossoms some three weeks 

 later. Many prefer to sow orchard grass with clover, as they 

 flower and are ready to cut at the same time. Timothy is well 

 adapted to sow with the large, late, or mammoth clover. 



Red clover is not only a general favorite in the United States 

 from Maine and New Jersey to Iowa and Illinois, but is very 

 valuable furtlier AYest and South. 



For Kansas, Professor Shelton reports that it deserves a prom- 

 inent place in the list of forage plants. In some very dry sea- 

 sons it fails almost entirely, but during the favorable seasons it 

 flourishes abundantly and yields more — both of hay and pasture 

 — than is generally obtained in the East. When land is once 

 seeded it never runs out, as is the case in the Eastern States, but 

 tliickens and spreads continually by self-seeding. We believe 

 that nowhere are such large crops of clover seed grown as in 

 Kansas. 



In Mississippi, Professor Phares says, red clover grows most 

 luxuriantly on all their lands with tenacious red or yellow clay 

 subsoil, even though the soil be thin ; and once set, it remains 

 as long as the farmer desires, provided he does not mow more 

 than twice each year, nor graze too heavily. 



In Georgia, the late C. W. Howard says: "This is the most 

 valuable herbaceous plant to the Southern farmer. It bears 

 grazing admirably, makes excellent hay^ and in large quantity, 

 and thrives on land of moderate fertility„ The doubts as to 

 whether red clover would succeed at the South have been dis- 

 pelled. At the South it lasts for several years." 



Red clover is valuable to enrich the land and hence to enrich 



