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canvas, if all the seed is to be saved. If stored in 

 stacks much care should be used in making these, 

 as the seed crop in the stack is even more easily in- 

 jured by rain than the hay crop. The covering of 

 old hay of some kind that wrill shed rain easily should 

 be most carefully put on. 



Years ago the idea prevailed that clover seed could 

 not be successfully threshed until the straw had, in 

 a sense, rotted in the field by lying exposed in the 

 same for several v^reeks. The introduction of im- 

 proved machinery has dispelled this idea. The seed 

 is more commonly threshed by a machine made pur- 

 posely for threshing clover called a "clover huller." 

 The cylinder teeth used in it are much closer than 

 in the ordinary grain separator. The sieves are 

 also different, and the work is less rapidly done than 

 if done by the former. During recent years, how- 

 ever, the seed is successfully threshed with an or- 

 dinary grain threshing machine, and the work of 

 threshing is thus more expeditiously done. Certain 

 attachments are necessary, but it is claimed that not 

 more than an hour is necessary to put these in place, 

 or to prepare the machine again for threshing grain. 



Since the seed is not deemed sufficiently clean for 

 market as it comes from the machine, it should be 

 carefully winnowed by running it through a fanning 

 mill with the requisite equipment of sieves. It is 

 important that this work should be carefully done 

 if the seed is to grade as No. i in the market. If 

 it does not, the price will be discounted in propor- 

 tion as it falls below the standard. A certain pro- 

 portion of the seed thus separated will be small and 



