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otherwise it is not likely to furnish any considerable 

 proportion of the same the first season. 



Because of the relative lack of bulk in the crop, 

 it is seldom sown by itself for the express purpose of 

 providing soiling food, nor is it often sown in con- 

 junction with other clovers or grasses for such a 

 purpose. Nevertheless there may be instances when 

 it would be eminently wise to sow it in conjunction 

 with common red, or alsike clover, when it is to be 

 cut for soiling food.* It adds to the fineness of the 

 food and also to its bulk. It matures a little later 

 than medium red clover, hence there is probably some 

 advantage from sowing it with the alsike. But it 

 should never be sown to provide soiling food, except 

 under conditions of marked adaptation for growing 

 it successfully. When thus sown not more than one 

 or two pounds of seed are required per acre, as the 

 seeds are quite small relatively. The quantity of the 

 seed of the other kind sown should also be reduced 

 by about twice the quantity of the white clover added 

 to the other seed sown. 



Szveet Clover. — Sweet clover {Melilotus alba) 

 sometimes called Bokhara clover, is branching in its 

 habit of growth, and it is of wide distribution. No 

 plant of the clover family will grow over so wide an 

 area and under conditions so unpromising. The 

 heat of summer and the cold of winter would seem 

 to be alike unable to kill it. While it can be grown 

 on the stiffest clays, it will also grow and thrive on 

 sandy soils so light that the winds will carry them, 

 and so lacking in plant food as to be quite bare of 

 grass during all the year. It will also flourish in 

 regions so dry as to forbid the successful growth of 



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