22 CLOVERS 



While it may be proper in some instances to scatter 

 the seeds on the surface without any covering other 

 than is furnished by rain or frost, it will be very 

 necessary at other seasons to provide a covering to 

 insure a stand of the seed. 



When clover seed is sown on ground honey- 

 combed with frost, no covering is necessary. When 

 sown on winter grain in the spring, the ground not 

 being so honeycombed, covering with the harrow is 

 usually advantageous. When sown on spring crops 

 and early in the season, it may not be necessary to 

 cover the seed, except by using the roller, even 

 though the seed should fall behind the grain tubes 

 while the grain crop is being sown, or should be 

 sown subsequently by hand. In other instances the 

 harrow should be used, and sometimes both the roller 

 and the harrow. Under conditions such as apper- 

 tain to New England and the adjacent States to 

 Ontario and the provinces east and to the land west 

 of the Cascade Mountains, clover and also grass 

 seeds do not require so much of a covering as when 

 sown on the prairie soils of the central portion of 

 the continent. 



Sowing Alone or in Combinations. — Whether 

 clover seed should be sown alone or in combination 

 with the seeds of other grasses will depend upon 

 the object sought in sowing it. When sown to pro- 

 duce seed, it is usually sown without admixture, but 

 not in every instance; when sown to produce hay, 

 it is nearly always sown in mixtures, but to this 

 there are some exceptions; when sown to produce 

 pasture, it is almost invariably sown with something 



