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clover to grow at its best. In the United States, 

 soil and climatic conditions taken together, would 

 probably give Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, 

 Virginia and Tennessee highest adaptation for the 

 growth of this plant. Taking in a wide area, highest 

 adaptation would lie in the States south of the 

 Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi. 

 Washington and Oregon, west to the Cascade Moun- 

 tains, would probably • furnish exceptions, but in 

 these the necessity for growing crimson clover .s not 

 likely to be so great as in the area just referred 

 to, owing to the ease with which other varieties of 

 clover may be grown. In some parts of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan many farmers 

 have succeeded well in growing crimson clover, but 

 a larger number have failed. The failures have 

 arisen largely through dry weather in the autumn, 

 want of plant food in the soil and the severity of 

 the winter weather. Westward from these States 

 to the Mississippi, the adaptation is still lower, and 

 the same is true of the New England States. In 

 fact, it is so low in these that it is far more likely 

 that it will fail than that it will succeed. Between 

 the Mississippi and the Cascade Mountains, crim- 

 son clover is not likely to be much grown. It will not 

 grow well in any part of the semi-arid belt. In 

 the mountain valleys it would probably succeed, but 

 in these alfalfa and some other varieties of clover 

 will give far better returns. 



Crimson clover will not grow well in any part 

 of Canada, except in that narrow strip of land be- 

 tween the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific. TI:e 



