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making use of the land after the corn is mature ; or it may 

 instead be harvested with the corn, in which case most 

 excellent silage is secured. This crop is grown not only in 

 Florida and Alabama but westward to central Texas and 

 northward to the Ohio River. Here it meets the field pea, 

 or the Canada field pea, as it is often called, which grows 

 northward into Canada. 



Here and there through the gulf states, we shall find 

 growing that queen of all legumes, alfalfa. The most 



Fig. 108. — Sweet clover growing along a limestone road. 



enthusiastic reports regarding it along the whole line, 

 however, will come from those of our number who go into 

 the fertile, irrigated valleys of the Southwest. There they 

 will find this deep-rooted perennial crop producing from 

 four to six cuttings of hay a year and making a richer, more 

 palatable feed as well as a heavier jaeld than any of 

 the other legumes anywhere. 0\ving to the fact that its 



