THE CLOVERS 241 
Study 34. The Clovers of the Farm 
The program of work for this study will consist of finding 
the clovers, wild and cultivated, growing on the farm, and 
digging them up and examining them, root and branch, 
flowers and fruit, and of making field observations on their 
habits, conditions of life, enemies and associates. 
The record of this study may consist of two tables of the 
clovers, one relating to the green plants, and the other to 
their flowers and fruits, prepared with column headings as 
indicated below: 
1. The Green Plants. 
Name (red clover, sweet clover, alfalfa, etc.). 
Duration (annual, biennial, short-lived or long-lived 
perennial). 
Height (average height in inches). 
Growth-habit (erect, trailing, creeping, etc.). 
Stem (stout or weak, cylindric or furrowed, straight or 
zigzag, etc). 
form (diagram of the compound leaf as a whole, 
including the basal stipules). 
color (light or dark green, markings, etc.). 
margin (diagram of edge of leaflet). 
Bisst eee (diagram). 
nodules (relative size, form, abundance, etc.).. 
Grows wild where (in what kind of soil and situation). 
Is grown with (what other cultivated plants, sown or 
associated). 
Is fed upon by (what animals: what insects). 
Farm uses (green forage hay, cover-crop, honey-crop, 
green manuring, lawn-cover, fence-row cover, etc.). 
Remarks. 
Leaves 
