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sidered highly important that it shall also be 

 free from external moisture. When thus stored 

 it should be in large mows, and it should be 

 well tramped, otherwise the impaction may not be 

 sufficient. To this method of storage there are the 

 following objections : i. The hay has to be handled 

 while it is yet green and wet. 2. There is hazard 

 that much of the hay will be spoiled in unskilled 

 hands. 3. Under the most favorable conditions more 

 or less of the clover is pretty certain to mold near 

 the edges of the mass. Where clover can be made 

 into hay in the ordinary way without incurring much 

 hazard of spoiling, the practice of storing it away 

 in the green form, except in a silo, would seem of 

 questionable propriety. The making of clover into 

 ensilage is discussed in the book "Soiling Crops and 

 the Silo" by the author. 



Securing Seed. As a rule, seed is not produced 

 from the first cutting for the season of medium 

 red clover. It is claimed that this is due to lack 

 of pollenization in the blossoms, and because they are 

 in advance of the active period of working in bumble 

 bees, the medium through which fertilization is 

 chiefly effected. This would seem to be a sufficient 

 explanation as to why medium red clover plants will 

 frequently bear seed the first year, if allowed to, 

 though the first cutting from older plants will have 

 little or no seed. But it is claimed that the ordinary 

 honey bee may be and is the medium for fertilizing 

 alsike and small white clover, but not that through 

 which the mammoth variety is fertilized. 



Experience has shown, further, that, as a rule, bet- 



