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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 woodashes 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 pas- 
turage 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 num- 
ber of different grasses as Timothy, Orchard Grass or Tall Oat 
CLOVER SEEDS 
Cutting a Field of Henderson's Medium Red Clover at Heart's Delight Farm, 
Chazy, N. Y. 
Important to Every Farmer 
Clovers yield 2 to 3 tons of cured, nutri- 
GROWN FOR | tious hay per acre; and furnish a better 
Hay balanced ration, than almost any other 
kind of food. Red Clover makes two 
crops in one season. 
AS All farm animals thrive on the clovers, 
particularly cattle, sheep and hogs. Few 
Pasture pasture crops grown will furnish as much 
grazing in a season as Red Clover. 
All clovers have the power to gather 
Nitrogen from the air, and store it in 
the soil in the form of nodules on the 
AS roots; thereby providing rich food for 
F ili crops of cereals, ete., which follow. 
ertilizers Thus they save the cost of expensive 
AND commercial fertilizers, and the labor of 
loading and spreading farm yard manure. 
Soil The long roots of clover penetrate 
deeply into the soil, improve its drainage, 
render it more friable, and increase its 
Improvers capacity for holding moisture, 
When plowed under, clover crops add 
humus to the soil, and further improve its 
mechanical condition. 
(Common or Medium Clover, June Clover.) 
Botanical, Trifolium pratense. 
German, Kopfklee, roth bluhender. French, Trefle rouge. 
Grass, but usually it is grown with Timothy, 8 to 10 pounds of 
Clover and half a bushel of Timothy seed being sown per acre. A 
very satisfactory combination is 10 pounds of Red Clover, 20 pounds 
of Timothy and 10 pounds of Fancy Red Top per acre. This makes 
a fine quality of merchantable hay and the field does not run out 
so soon as Clover and Timothy alone. (See cut.) 
CAUTION.—Every care should be exercised in buying Red Clover, 
for there are always on the market at a cheap price large quantities, 
badly infested with weed seeds, which in size and appearance closely 
resemble Red Clover, and cannot be cleaned out. Our seed 1s of high 
germination, pure and free from weed seeds and foreign matter. 
Price, (subject to change without notice) Henderson’s Superior 
Sample (extra recleaned), 33c. lb., $18 75 bushel of 60 Ibs., $30.00 
per 100 lbs. 
“The Clover I bought from you last spring ts the best they have had on the farm 
in twenty years, so I am told by the family that occupied it for sixty years." 
THOMAS SKIPPER, Woonsocket, L. I. 
PRICES OF CLOVERS ARE SUBJECT TO MARKET FLUCTUATIONS 
