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cultivation, which is especially important with 
this crop for conserving the moisture. Cultiva- 
tion is discontinued in the latter part of July. 
If the crop is in early enough, it will stand up 
well under the snow when used as a winter cover- 
crop, but will winter-kill. Seeding is done at 
the rate of six to eight pecks per acre. A good 
yield of beans is thirty bushels per acre. 
JAPAN CLOVER 
Japan clover (Lespedeza striata) is a native of 
Japan and China, introduced intq the southern 
part of the United States about 1840, since which 
time it has spread throughout the southern states, 
where it has proved of great value as pasture, 
although it is frequently used also for hay when 
grown on good land. Japan clover is also a valu- 
able cover-crop and green-manure crop, as it is 
well adapted to light aud poor lands and withstands 
drought well, growing and spreading when other 
plants die for lack of moisture. The plant thrives 
as far west as Kansas, and as far north as Mary- 
land, although it does best from Virginia south- 
ward, where it has spread naturally. Under 
ordinary conditions of growth, it does not reach 
a height of more than ten to twelve inches, and on 
very poor land it simply spreads over the ground. 
Until recently, it was allowed to seed naturally, or 
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