Crimson Clover 



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winter wheat or rye, oats, early potatoes, or sweet corn. 

 Crimson clover, on the other hand, has demonstrated 

 its wide usefulness on light soils as a fall and early spring 

 crop, and is employed extensively for seeding in corn, 

 late potatoes, toma- 

 toes, and the like. 

 Seeded in the corn 

 at the time of the 

 last cultivation, it 

 makes a vigorous 

 growth in the fall 

 and early spring and 

 furnishes an abun- 

 dant quantity of 

 humus and nitrogen 

 for the succeeding 

 crop. 



The light, sandy 

 soils of New .Jersey, 

 Delaware and Mary- 

 land have derived 

 great benefit from 

 the cultivation of 

 crimson clover. It 

 was cultivated in 

 Delaware as early 

 as 1885, and rapidly 

 gained in favor in 

 the following decade. 

 The high esteem in 

 which it is held 



Fig. 4.3. This single stool of crimson clover has 

 eighty-si.K branches. The height to the tip.'j 

 of the leaves is twelve inches: as it stood in 

 the field it covered more thaii one square 

 foot. With a generous supply of mineral 

 plant-food, the accumulation of atmospheric 

 nitrogen by such plants is both rapid and 

 e.x tensive. 



