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Trifolium AN 
A wild — very common on low ands in N California, and well liked pié 
stock. It should vis valuable in cultivatio 
Trifolium minus. Yellow clover. 
A European annual, extensively 8 in the Eastern and Southern States in 
sandy fields and along roadsides. It has a habit similar to that of Japan clover, 
for which it is often mistaken. It affords a small amount of forage in early 
summer, but its chief value is that it spreads rapidly over the most barren soils, 
and thereby prevents the washing away of the surface, 
Trifolium ochroleucum. Sulphur clover. 
A perennial European species 10 to 15 inches high, with elongated heads of pale 
yellow flowers. It grows wild upon the driest calcareous soils, and when cut 
sheath a palatable and nutritious hay, which is greedily eaten by cattle. 
Trifolium pannonicum. Hungarian clover. 
A perennial species indigenous to southern Europe, closely allied to red clover and 
much earlier, but less readily eaten by stock. 
Trifolium pratense. Red ¿bi : une clover; Early clover; Small red clover; 
ed top clover; Medium red c (Fig. 50.) 
A biennial or short-lived perennial ee native of the Old World, but now exten- 
pl ce in both hemispheres. It is ascending, more or less branching, . 
t high, with trifoliate leaves on long leaf-stalks and oval or blunt leaf- 
ici Me an inch to an inch and a half long, with a large pale spot on the upper 
side, and pink flowers in large, rounded, stemless heads. Red clover holds the 
March to Mas, either alone, or more commonly with grain. It requires a deep, 
rich, fertile, calcareous loam, neither too wet nor too dry. On the black-waxy 
nd gumbo soils of the Sor beri red clover is almost sure to freeze 
out or “heave” in winter, and on rocky or light, sandy soil it suffers from 
drought in summer. It is mown 85 hay twice in the season, the yield varying 
from three-fourths of a ton to 2 tons at each cutting. The hay contains from 
12 to 16 per cent of crude protein, varying according to the fertility of the 
soil, The yield of seed ranges from 3 to 9 bushels, of 60 pounds each, per acre 
It is one of the best money crops of the Eastern farmer, and is an excellent 
one for pasturage, soiling, hay, or to turn under for green manure. 
um procumbens. Hop clover; Yellow clover; Shamrock clover; Brown 
vit: Lesser clover; Low hop clover; Hop trefoil. 
A low, annual, yellow-flowered species, with spreading or ascending stems, widely 
naturalized in the Eastern and Southern States. It is common on sandy fields 
and roadsides, and furnishes scanty pasturage for stock in early summer, It 
resembles Japan clover, and in the South is often mistaken for it. 
Trifolium reflexum. Buffalo clover; Pennsylvania clover. (Fig.51.) 
A native annual or biennial species with ascending downy stems, oblong, finely 
toothed leaflets, and rose-red flowers on short stalks in a round, stalked cluster. 
A wes 
and highly nutritious forage, greedily eaten by all kinds of stock, It is a spe- 
eies which should be brought into cultivation. 
