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leaf giving a larger percentage of digestible 
matter than the red clover at the same period of 
growth. However, it is more difficult to cure, 
and suffers great loss in handling if care is not 
exercised. 
It also makes excellent pasture, starting quickly 
after the first cutting, and being less readily 
destroyed by the tramping of animals than red 
clovers. 
CoMPOSITION OF ALSIKE CLOVER 
An average 
One ton acre-yield 
contains furnishes 
Per cent Lbs. Lbs. 
Water ce ae a Se 74.80 3 Ge! 8 Sys 
Dry matter... ... 25.20 504 4,032 
Ether extract. .... 0.90 18 144 
Crude fiber. ..... 7.40 148 1,184 
Proteim. 26 = % @ » 3.90 78 624 
ASH 2.4 6 wou w He & 2.00 40 320 
Nitrogen-free extract . 11.00 220 1,760 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
' Crimson clover is an annual. Because of its 
adaptabilities, it has quickly made a place for 
itself in American agricultural practice. Its habits 
of growth are not so well known as those of the 
other kinds described, and for this reason, among 
others, is not so generally distributed, even in 
those sections in which it thrives. Its habits are 
such as to make it undesirable to substitute for 
rod clover, although it may well supplement it. 
