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reasonably dose, cutting of the stubbles quite soon 

 after the nurse crop has been harvested. 



When clover is sown without a nurse crop, it 

 may be not only proper, but advantageous, to pasture 

 it. The grazing should not, however, be continued 

 so late that the plants will not have time to make a 

 sufficiency of growth to protect them in winter. 

 Such grazing is better adapted to areas in which the 

 season of growth is long, rather than short; where 

 weed growth is abundant, as on certain of the soils 

 of the prairie, it may be necessary to call in the aid 

 of the mower once or even twice during the season 

 of growth. 



When a crop of medium red clover is desired, the 

 surest way to obtain it in good form is to pasture the 

 field during the early part of the season, and closely 

 enough to have the clover eaten down on every part 

 of the field. When it is not so eaten, the mower 

 should be so used that the growth and maturing of 

 the seed crop may be even and uniform. The season 

 for removing the live stock will depend upon latitude 

 and altitude, but it will be correct to say that it 

 ought to be from two to three weeks earlier than 

 the proper season for cutting clover for hay. 



When clover is- not grazed the year that it is sown, 

 in some seasons the stronger plants will bear seed, if 

 allowed. To such an extent does this follow imder 

 certain conditions and in certain areas, that a con- 

 siderable crop of seed could be obtained if this were 

 'desired, even as many as 4 or 5 bushels per acre in 

 ^some instances. But it has been noticed that if thus 

 .allowed to produce seed, the effect upon the growth 



