290 CLOVERS 



securing more uniformity in the ripening of the 

 seed. 



The seed may be threshed in much the same way 

 as other clover seed. (See page 107.) The yields 

 per acre should run from 3 to 8 bushels. It weighs 

 20 pounds per bushel. 



Renewing, — Since Japan clover is an annual, it 

 is not necessary to renew it, in the sense in which 

 more long-lived clovers are renewed, as, for in- 

 stance, the alsike variety. (See page 216.) About 

 the only renewal practicable is that which insures 

 successive crops of pasture, hay or seed from the 

 same land where the crop has once been grown. 

 (See page 285.) But the growth may, of course, be 

 stimulated by the application of dressings of fer- 

 tilizer, such as gypsum, or those that may be termed 

 potassic in character. 



