CHAPTER II 



SOME GENERAL PRINCIPLES WHICH APPLY TO THE 

 GROWING OF CLOVERS 



In growing clovers, as in growing other crops of 

 the same species, which embrace several varieties, 

 certain features of management will apply more or 

 less to all of these in common. It will be the aim 

 to point out the chief of these in the present chapter. 



Adaptation in Clovers — Adaptation in the va- 

 rieties of clover considered will be more fully given 

 when discussing these individually, but enough will 

 be said here to facilitate comparisons. Clover in one 

 or the other of its varieties can be grown in almost all 

 parts of the United States and Canada. Speaking in 

 a general way, the medium and mammoth varieties 

 can be grown at their best between parallels 37" and 

 49° north latitude. Alfalfa has special adaptation for 

 mountain valleys of the entire West, but it will also 

 grow in good form in parts of all, or nearly all, 

 the other States. Alsike clover grows in about the 

 same areas as the common and mammoth varie- 

 ties, but it may also be grown further North, owing 

 to its greater hardihood. Crimson clover has high- 

 est adaptation to the ^States east of the Alleghany 

 Mountains and west of the Cascades, but will also 

 grow in the more Central States south, in which 

 moisture is abundant. Small white clover will grow 



