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of green fodder are harvested, and about 10 tons 

 are produced by 2 cuttings of the Saida variety. 



Egyptian clover has not- been grown sufficiently 

 long in this country to justify giving information 

 based upon American experience that could be taken 

 as authoritative, with reference to the best methods 

 of harvesting the seed crop. There would seem to 

 be no reasons, however, to suppose that the methods 

 followed in harvesting alfalfa could not be followed 

 with equal advantage in harvesting Egyptian clo- 

 ver. Nor can anything be said as yet with reference 

 to which cutting of the series will furnish the best 

 seed crop. 



The best service, probably, which this crop can 

 render to the United States is the enrichment of the 

 soils on which the plants are grown. As the same 

 bacteria which inoculate alfalfa soils will not an- 

 swer for Egyptian clover, and as the requisite bac- 

 teria may not be found in soils where it is desirable 

 to grow this clover, the conclusion that it will not 

 grow sufficiently well in certain soils on which it 

 is being tried should not be reached until the ques- 

 tion relating to the presence or absence of the proper 

 bacteria has been settled. If necessary to introduce 

 bacteria from Egypt, the obstacles in the way of 

 such introduction would not be at all serious, if 

 undertaken by the Department of Agriculture. 



YELLOW^ CLOVER 



Yellow clover (Medicago lupulina) is to be care- 

 fully distinguished from Hop clover {Medicago 

 procumbens), which it resembles so closely in the 



