^6 CLOVERS 



considered, it is probably safer to sow clover in the 

 South at that season than the spring, when vegeta- 

 tion is beginning to start. It may also succeed in 

 some instances in areas well to the North when sown 

 in the early autumn, providing snow covers the 

 ground all the winter, but should the snow fail to 

 come the subsequent winter, or fail to lie when it 

 does come, the clover plants would perish. The ele- 

 ment of hazard, therefore, is too great in northerly 

 areas to justify sowing the seed thus. But on the 

 bench lands of the mountain valleys there may be 

 instances in which the seed may be sown so late in 

 the autumn that it will not sprout before winter sets 

 in, but lies in the soil ready to utilize the moisture, 

 so all important in those areas, as soon as the earli- 

 est growth begins in the spring. 



The seed may be sown with no little assurance of 

 success in the late summer. But this can only be 

 done where moisture is reasonably plentiful from 

 the time of sowing onward, and where the winters 

 are not really severe. In some of the Central States 

 this method of sowing may succeed reasonably well. 

 Clover and timothy sown thus without any nurse 

 crop will produce a full crop the next season. When 

 the seed is sown thus, it may, of course, be made to 

 follow a crop grown on the land the same season. It 

 may also insure a crop the following season, when 

 the clover seed sown the spring previously may for 

 some reason have failed. 



While medium red clover is frequently sown in 

 the South and in some areas of the far West in the 

 months of January and February on the snow, in 



