MEDIUM RED CLOVER 8 1 



desired, or it may be sown with the seed along with 

 the grain, and that when sown by any of these 

 methods there is much saving of time as compared 

 with sowing by hand. In some sections of the 

 prairie the seed is sown with the grain drill by driv- 

 ing the same across the newly sown grain rows. If 

 necessary to insure sufficiently thin sowing, the seed 

 should be first mixed with some substance such as 

 common salt. 



In the moist areas of the upper Atlantic coast, 

 Ontario and the Puget Sound region, the seed is fre- 

 quently made to fall behind the grain tubes on clay 

 and clay loam soils, and is covered by running the 

 roller over the ground subsequently; but in States 

 more inland the seed is usually made to fall before 

 the drill tubes, when, in some instances, the sowing 

 of the grain will provide a sufficient covering; but 

 in others the harrow is used in addition, and some- 

 times both the harrow and the roller. When clover 

 seed is sown along with grain and by the same 

 tubes, it will in some soils be buried too deeply, but 

 in others the objection does not hold good. The 

 young plants are also injured more by shade from 

 the grain, since they grow only in the line of the 

 row along with the grain, and yet this method of 

 sowing clover seed in some localities seems to an- 

 swer reasonably well. 



When the broadcast seeder is used in sowing clo- 

 ver seed, time is also saved as compared with hand 

 sowing, but the seed can only fall before the seeder, 

 and must, therefore, be given the same covering as 

 the grain, aSj whei:^ the seed is sown with the grain 



