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the nurse crop in order to keep down the weeds until the 
clover can get a start. We prefer to seed about four quarts 
of good seed per acre on winter wheat early in March and 
let the frost work the seed into the ground, or to sow later 
when the ground can be harrowed, and harrow the wheat 
immediately after sowing the clover seed. This harrowing 
will cover the seed and if the ground is not too wet it will 
benefit the wheat. 
If it is desirable to seed the clover with oats, the clover 
may be seeded at the same time the oats are drilled. When 
both are sown in one drill it is necessary to have a separate 
attachment made purposely for seeding the clover. It will 
not do to mix the clover with the oats since the clover will 
be covered too deep. Besides, clover seed, being heavy, will 
shake to the bottom and will not be seeded evenly. In gen- 
eral the sooner the nurse crop is gotten off the clover the 
better it will be for it. 
Other things being equal, we prefer seeding clover with 
wheat rather than oats since the oats often grow so rank as 
to shade the clover and kill it. 
Clover, to grow well, must have plenty of air, moisture, 
and warmth. The first two seem to be more important than 
the last, although young clover ig often killed if a warm early 
spring is followed by severe freezing weather. 
Unless clover has made a rank growth the first fall, it 
is not a good plan to pasture or cut it the first year. Gen- 
erally speaking, the fall growth after the nurse crop is taken 
off should be allowed to rot down and protect the roots 
through the winter. 
Soy BEANS 
Soy beans are one of the most profitable crops that can 
be grown on the farm. This crop has gained rapidly in pop- 
