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time of sowing are also less favorable for getting 

 a stand of the seed. 



There is probably no rotation in which clover may 

 be grown with more advantage than when it is made 

 to alternate with corn or potatoes and some small 

 cereal grains, as wheat or oats, growing each crop 

 for but one season. Of course the clover must be 

 sown with the grain and harvested the following 

 year, taking from it two cuttings. In no other form 

 of rotation, perhaps, can clover be used to better 

 advantage, nor would there seem to be any other 

 way in which land may be made to produce abun- 

 dantly for so large a term of years without fertiliza- 

 tion other than that given to the soil by the clover. It 

 would fully supply ' he needs of the crops alternating 

 with it in the line of humus, and also in that of 

 nitrogen. In time the supply of phosphoric acid and 

 potash might run low, but not for a long term of 

 years. The cultivation given to the corn and pota- 

 toes would keep the land clean. Fortunate is the 

 neighborhood in which a rotation may be practised, 

 and fortunate are the tillers of the soil who are in a 

 position to adopt it. 



Medium red clover may be followed with much 

 advantage by certain catch crops sown at various 

 times through the season of growth. It may be pas- 

 tured in the spring for several weeks, and the land 

 then plowed and sowed with millet or rape, or 

 planted with com, sorghum, late potatoes, or certain 

 vegetables, or it may be allowed to grow for several 

 weeks and then plowed, to be followed by one or 

 the other of these crops. It may also be harvested 



