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other words for better agriculture, since it not only fits 

 into the crop rotation, but it is easily and quickly estab- 

 hshed and makes an excellent forage for five stock. 



Throughout this same region and extending to some 

 distance northward, the little white, or Dutch clover is 

 found. In fact it has 

 a wider range than 

 that indicated, but it 

 is in this region that 

 it is best known. It is 

 a low, creeping clover ; 

 and as we soon dis- 

 cover, it is an unfailing 

 sign of a fertile soil. 



In this same region, 

 we find still another 

 clover, a plant, which, 

 because it resembles 

 both red and white 

 clovers, is thought by 

 man J' to be a cross be- 

 tween the two. It is 

 known as alsike. We find it on the lower, wetter grounds 

 and on those poorer in lime. It differs from the white 

 clover in that it becomes tall enough to cut for hay, 

 though we find it used principally in pastures. 



There are still some other legumes of rather less im- 

 portance that our line of investigators will doubtless have 

 found. Among these is the soy bean, wfflch thrives 

 throughout the Corn Belt and southward, the peanut, and 

 the vetches, the latter being found all over the South 

 and even as far north as New York. 



Notwithstanding the fact that legumes are held in 

 high esteem by farmers everywhere and must in the future 



Fig. 111. — An alsike clover plant. 



