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are too cold to admit of the plants furnishing a 

 sufficiency of grazing at that season. 



Burr clover is sometimes grown with Bermuda 

 grass. The latter furnishes summer grazing. There 

 is some merit in the plan, if the seed of the burr 

 clover were sown from year to year. When the 

 re-seeding of the plants is depended on from season 

 to season there is difficulty in adjusting the grazing 

 so as to admit of the plants properly re-seeding for 

 the growth that is to follow. If the Bermuda grass 

 is not closdy grazed many of the burrs which con- 

 tain the seeds may not reach the ground in time to 

 germinate. 



Preparing the Soil. — Since burr clover has 

 much power to re-seed the land without preparation, 

 it is more commonly reproduced thus. But, as with 

 all other plants, it will grow more quickly and more 

 luxuriantly on a well-prepared seed-bed, where it 

 may be thought worth while to thus prepare the 

 land. The cultivation given to such crops as corn, 

 cotton or cow peas makes an excellent preparation 

 of the soil on which to sow burr clover. 



Sowing. — Usually, burr clover is allowed to re- 

 seed itself after it has once become established in 

 the soil. In this respect it is not unlike small white 

 clover and Japan clover, but it does not grow so 

 well as these on poor soil. Where not yet estab- 

 lished, it must, of course, be sown where it is de- 

 sired to grow it. 



The seed is commonly sown in September or early 

 October, but some growers recommend sowing in 

 the burrs as early as June or July, that the tough 



