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more or less abound in these areas, it does not suc- 

 ceed so well. It has not yet proved a marked suc- 

 cess in Western Minnesota or in the Dakotas, owing 

 in part probably to the lack of the proper bacteria 

 in the soil. Its growth in these localities, however, 

 is extending from year to year. Indiana and Ohio 

 are great clover States, and the same is true of much 

 of Illinois and Iowa ; but southward in these States 

 there is some hazard to the young plants from 

 drought and heat in summer, and to an occasional 

 frost in win'er when the ground is bare. 



East of the States named, it would probably be 

 correct to say that the highest adaptation is found 

 in New York and Pennsylvania, particularly the 

 former, in many parts of which excellent crops are 

 grown. In various parts of the New England States 

 good crops may also be grown. Much of the soil 

 in these is not suffidently fertile to grow clover as 

 it can be grown in the .more Central- States. The 

 same is true of the States of Delaware, Maryland 

 and Eastern Virginia, east of the Rocky Mountains, 

 south from the Canadian boundary and west from 

 Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri, but little success has 

 heretofore attended the efforts to grow medium red 

 clover. This statement does not apply equally to 

 Eastern Nebraska and Kansas. Usually the climate 

 is not moist enough in summer, the sweep of the cold 

 winds is too great in winter, the snowfall is usually 

 insufficient to protect the plants, and it may be also 

 that the requisite bacteria is lacking in the soil. Some- 

 time, however, these adverse conditions may in part 

 be overcome by man's resourcefulness. In parts o£ 



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