MEDIUM RED CLOVER 7I 



By hardwood timber is meant such trees as maple, 

 beech, birch, oak, elm, basswood, butternut and wal- 

 nut. Where forests are found comprising one or 

 more varieties of these trees anywhere on this con- 

 tinent, and especially comprising several of them, 

 the conclusion is safe that medium red clover will 

 grow, or, at least, can be grown, on such soils. If 

 a considerable sprinkling of pine trees is found in 

 the same, the indications are not changed in con- 

 sequence. Where the forest is largely composed of 

 maple and birch, excellent crops of clover may be 

 looked for when the land has been cleared. But be- 

 cause of what has been said, the conclusion must 

 not be reached that clover will not grow well under 

 some conditions where soft woods abound, but 

 rather that where the former abound the indications 

 of suitability for clover production are more certain 

 than where soft timbers abound, 

 i Place in the Rotation. — Medium red clover 

 may be made to precede or to follow almost any crop 

 that is grown upon the farm. Notwithstanding, 

 there are certain crops which it precedes or follows 

 with much more advantage than others. Since it 

 brings nitrogen to the soil from the air and deposits 

 the same for the benefit of the crops that imme- 

 diately follow, it is advantageous to plant such 

 crops after it as require much nitrogen to make 

 them productive, as, for instance, wheat. Since, 

 through the medium of its roots, it stores the ground 

 with humus, such crops should come after it as feed 

 •generously on humus, as, for instance, corn and po- 

 tatoes. And since it tends to lessen weed growth 



