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ceased, and also after early potatoes, tomatoes and 
other crops harvested early enough in the season 
to enable its roots to get hold of the soil and to 
make considerable top before cold weather. 
While it requires good land for its best develop- 
ment, it is well adapted to light sandy lands if well 
supplied with mineral food. It will grow later in 
the fall than red clover, because it is not injured 
by light freezing, and it also makes more rapid 
spring growth than any of the other clovers when 
seeded in the late summer. When land is light and 
poor, a dressing of acid phosphate, say at the 
rate of 150 pounds per acre, will aid in securing a 
catch and insuring a crop. 
Crimson clover as green forage 
Early maturity is one of the most valuable char- 
acteristics of crimson clover, from the standpoint 
of its use as green forage, making it particularly 
useful in rotations. In the middle states it will 
begin to head about May 15, thus following directly 
after wheat. Cutting should begin as soon as the 
heads begin to form, and may be continued until 
the plant is completely headed out. This period 
ranges from ten days to two weeks. The dry 
matter is richer in protein than red clover; and 
the plant has more moisture at the same stage of 
growth than the red. Therefore, larger quantities, 
