2l6 CLOVERS 



Stacks are well protected with a covering of marsh hay 

 or of some other suitable material. When the seed 

 is not threshed at once it is usual to defer thresh- 

 ing until cold weather, as with medium red clover, 

 as then the seed is much more easily removed from 

 the seed pod. Ordinarily, the work can best be done 

 by clover huUers, the same as are used in threshing 

 medium red and mammoth clover, but grain sepa^ 

 rators, with certain attachments, will now do this 

 work in good form. Much care should be exer- 

 cised in winnowing the seed. It ought to be so 

 cleaned that it will grade as No. i , and so bring the 

 highest current price. Due care in this matter will 

 make the major part of even ordinary seed bring 

 the best price. 



Renewing. — When the stand of the alsike is but 

 partial, as, "for instance, when young plants have 

 failed, or partially so, on the high land, and are suf- 

 ficiently plentiful on the lower land, a full stand may 

 sometimes be secured by simply scattering seed 

 where it is needed so late in the fall that it 

 will not sprout before winter, covering with the har- 

 row and then top dressing with farmyard manure 

 well decomposed. But where the winters are so mild 

 that the clover might.be sprouted during some warm 

 spell followed by severe weather, the seed should 

 not be sown then. 



On certain soils, as those naturally moist and 

 porous, it may be possible so to renew alsike clover 

 that it will produce hay or pasture crops almost in- 

 definitely, by simply allowing some heads to seed 

 every year and fall to the ground. In meadows, 



