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HENDERSON'S MEDIUM RED CLOVER 



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 Common or Medium Clover, June Clover 



This is by far the most important Clover grown in the Northern. 

 Eastern and Central states, though it is also largely grown in 

 some parts of the West and South. It thrives most luxuriantly 

 on strong, well drained loams, though it does well on a great 

 variety of soils excepting sour, or acid soils, when lime, plaster 

 or wood ashes must be applied to counteract the acidity. 

 Red Clover according to locality is a biennial or short- 

 lived perennial. It grows one to two feet in height and 

 usually makes two crops a year, yielding two to three 

 tons of cured hay per acre. Clover hay is very nutritious; 

 all stock fed on it require less grain: chopped and 

 steamed it is a good substitute for green food for poultry 

 during the winter. As pasturage all animals thrive on 

 it, particularly cattle, sheep and pigs, and as a green 

 manuring and soiling crop it is very valuable, adding 

 humus and nitrogen to the soil. In Northern states 

 Red Clover seed is usually sown in the spring: the 

 earlier the better. If grown alone, use 12 to 14 pounds 

 of seed per acre if broadcasted and cover not over 

 half an inch deep. Red Clover may be seeded with 

 a number of different grasses as Timothy, Orchard Grass 

 or Tall Oat Grass, but usually it is grown with Timo- 

 thy. S to 10 pounds of Clover and half a bushel of 

 Timothy seed being sown per acre. A very satisfaetory 

 combination is 5 pounds of Rod Clover. 5 pounds of Alsike 

 Clover, 20 pounds of Timothy and 5 pounds of Fancy 

 Red Top per acre. This makes a fine quality of mer- 

 chantable hay and the field does not run out so soon as 

 Clover and Timothy alone (See engraving). 



Price (subject to change without notice), Henderson's 

 Superior Sample (extra recleaned), 82c. lb., $47.50 per bushel 

 of 60 lbs.; $78.00 per 100 lbs. 



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 (PERENNIAL RED CLOVER or COW CRASS) 



Perennial. Time of flowering, July. Height, 2 to 3 feet. Quite 

 distinct from the common Red Clover, being of larger and coarser growth 

 and valuable for purposes for which the latter is entirely unsuited. It 

 lasts longer and is two or three weeks later than common Red Clover. 

 Of very robust growth, yielding enormous bulk valuable for reclaiming 

 exhausted lands. Sow (if alone) about 12 lbs. per acre; weight, 60 lbs. 

 per bushel. Henderson's Superior Sample (extra recleaned). 



Price, 85c. per lb.; $48.75 per bushel, $80.00 per 100 lbs. 



3v cl^ ALSIKE or HYBRID CLOVER JSHSl 



Perennial. Time of flowering, July and August. Alsike or Swedish 

 Clover is a hybrid intermediate in growth and appearance between Red 

 and White Clovers. The blossoms are pinkish white. It is a perennial 

 and one of the hardiest of all Clovers, thriving particularly well in cool 

 and cold climates and stands freezing well, but also adapts itself to most 

 climates where Clovers grow, and will grow in moister soil than Red 

 Clover, in fact, has produced splendid crops under irrigation. The plants 

 attain a height of one to two feet: stems and leaves, though smaller 

 than those of Red Clover, are much more numerous, making hay of finer 

 texture. It is very nutritious, its feeding value equalling that of Alfalfa 

 and is good for either green forage, pasture or hay. When mixed with 

 Red Clover it improves the quality of the latter. It is valuable for 

 sowing with other Grasses and Clovers as it forms a thick bottom, 

 increasing the yield of hay. 



Alsike frequently produces good crops on soils on which Red Clover 

 will not grow. We strongly advise farmers to add 2 or 3 lbs. per acre 

 to their usual seeding of Red Clover and Timothy. Sow (if alone) 

 8 lbs. per acre; weight 60 lbs. per bushel. 



Price, 85c. per lb.; $48.75 per bushel of 60 lbs., $80.00 per 100 lbs. 



WHITE BOKHARA CLOVER 



(SWEET CLOVER,) Metilohis alba 

 Biennial. Time of flowering. June to September. Height. 3 to 5 feet. 



A perennial leguminous plant of tall, shrub-like growth, occasionally 

 crown as a forage plant, and often for bees: the numerous small white 

 flowers possess a sweet, honey-like fragrance. The importance of 

 Bokhara Clover, however, is its value for plowing under for green 

 manuring, particularly to prepare poor soils where it is difficult to get 

 other crops to grow. Sow 10 lbs. per acre: weight 60 lbs. per bushel. 



Price, 45c. per lb.; $24.75 per bushel, $40.00 per 100 lbs. 



JAPAN CLOVER Lespedeza Striata 



An annual leguminous plant considerably grown, particularly in the 

 South, as a summer pasture, green forage and hay crop. It also has 

 much value as a soil enricher when plowed under as green manure. It 

 will flourish on poor and exhausted soils, too poor to produce profitable 

 crops of any other forage plant. Though an annual, once sown it 

 Is itself from year to year, and in that way will last indefinitely, 

 and is pronounced by competent authorities as the best pasture plant 

 for impoverished soil in the Southern states. Sow 14 lbs. per acre; 

 weight 20 lbs. per bushel. 



Price, 65c. per lb. $12.50 per bushel of 20 lbs.; $60.00 per 100 lbs. 



Honeysuckle WHITE CLOVEPv Trifolium repens 



Perennial. Time of flowering. May to Sept. Height <\ in. (creeping). 



A very hardy, creeping Clover, which accommodates itself to a great 

 variety of soils and climates: being found in every state in the Union. 

 It grows most luxuriantly in moist ground or during wet seasons, but 

 succeeds wherever there is enough rainfall to grow cereal grain-. It is 

 a perennial plant, the stems having the habit of creeping along the gr< und 

 and taking root at the joints so that plants are multiplied indefinitely. 

 White Clover also remains in bloom so long, that blossoms are forming 

 and maturing seeds most of the summer, and vast numbers of young 

 plants spring up from these self-sown seeds. 



White Clover is also a very valuable addition to mixtures for perm- 

 anent pastures, as it furnishes considerable plant food to the other 

 Grasses composing such mixtures. This is owing to the ability of 

 its stems to continually produce new plants which occupy the soil when 

 the old plants die and are turned into fertilizer. 



In mixtures for lawns White Clover is always used, as there is no 

 plant more suitable for the formation of a dense sward, and a - 

 prevent the washing out of soil during heavy rains. Sow (if alorj 

 per acre: weight, per bushel, 60 lbs. 95c. per lb., $54.75 per bushel, 

 $90.00 per 100 lbs. 



Henderson's Superior Recleaned 



CRIMSON or SCARLET CLOVER j 



Plowing under a good crop of Searlet Clover i> equivalent ti i 

 stable manure per acre and even if the Clover be harvested or pastured, 

 the benefits derived from the wonderful nitrogenous root formation will 

 alone many times repay the 1 and labor. 



Crimson (lover cut when coming into bloom makes hay richer in 

 protein than Red Clover, and the yield on average soils is two to three 

 tons per arre . It is especially adapted fi 

 is much relished by dairy stocks. Cut green I -■ 



average yield is eight to fifteen tons per acr< . while as pasture Crii 

 Clover supplies nutritious herbage for several weeks in early si 

 if stock is turned onto it when the clover is six inches high \so t 

 manuring crop, cover crop, or winter soil mulch i1 

 because it can be sown in summer or early autumn after other 

 have been removed and be plowed under the following spring. 



Crimson Clover should not be fed after the Mowers man. 

 hairs of the calyx are apt to form "hair balls" in thi 



Sow at the rate ot 15 pounds of seed per acre, either bn 

 drilled, ('over lightly with a harrow. If sown too earl} 



in Southern States, it is apt to mature and fon ■ 

 without making lull growth. In the latitude of N 

 from July 15 to September 15, and in the South • 

 rime of flowering is June; height 2 feet. 

 Price, 25c. per lb.; $12.75 per bushel of 60 lbs.; $20.00 per 100 lbs. 



PRICES OF CLOVEK SEED SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 



