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too short subsequently to the grazing of the rape 

 to allow the plants to gather sufficient strength to 

 carry them safely through northern winters. When 

 clover seed is sown with rape, the seeds may be 

 mixed and sown together. 



Clover seed in several of the varieties may be suc- 

 cessfully sown on certain grain crops grown to pro- 

 vide grazing, especially when these are sown early. 

 Such pastures may consist of any one of the small 

 cereal grains, or more than one, or of all of them. 



The seed may be sown in these the same as with 

 any crop sown to furnish grain. A stand of clover 

 may thus be secured under some conditions in which 

 the clover would perish if sown along with the grain 

 to be harvested ; under other conditions it would not 

 succeed so well. The former include soils so open as 

 to readily lose moisture by surface evaporation. The 

 tramping of the animals on these increases their 

 power to hold moisture, the grazing down of the 

 grain lessens its demands upon the same, thus leav- 

 ing more for the clover plants, and they are further 

 strengthened by the freer access of sunlight. The 

 latter include firm, stiff clays in rainy climates. To 

 pasture these when thus sown, if moist beyond a cer- 

 tain degree, Avould result in so impacting them that 

 the yield of the pasture would be greatly decreased 

 in consequence. 



Medium red clover is quite frequently sown alone; 

 that is, without admixture with clovers or grasses. 

 It is always sown thus when it is to be plowed under, 

 as green manure. It is also usually sown alone in 

 rotations where it is to be cropped or grazed for 



