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Henderson’s Superior Recleaned 
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SCAIXEE Te @ChOVER. 
Botanical, Trifolium Incarnatum. German, Jncarnat Klee. 
French, Tréfle incarnat. 
Annual. Time of flowering, June. Height, 2 feet 
A Boon to Agriculture, A Gold Mine on Your Farm 
Valuable as a Pasture, Green Forage and Hay 
Crop, and most Valuable for Quickly Re- 
storing Fertility to WWorn-Out Soils 
The importance of this Annual Clover is realized more and 
more every year, not only as a pasture, green forage and hay 
crop, but asa cover crop.and soil renovator. While it grows most 
luxuriantly on fertile loam, yet it will thrive better on thinner 
and poorer soils than Red Clover and is more efficient for green 
manuring than the latter. 
Crimson Clover forms an upright branching plant 1 to 2 feet 
in height, according to soil, locality and season. It roots very 
deeply and is a bountiful provider of nitrogen. 
As Hay—Cut when coming into full bloom, not later—and 
properly cured—it is even superior to Red Clover, is more 
nutritious, richer in protein and especially adapted for growing 
and working animals. The yield of cured hay on average soils 
is 2 to 3 tons per acre, on lighter soils less and on heavier, richer 
soils, phenomenally large crops have been produced. 
For Green Forage and Silage it isof high feeding value, especially 
for dairy stock and is much relished by them. The average 
yield cut green before the flowers commence to mature is 8 to 
15 tons per acre, though up to a 20-ton yield per acre is sometimes 
reported. 
As Pasture Crimson Clover makes one of the best early spring 
pastures, supplying an abundance of nutritious herbage for 
several weeks if stock is turned on it when about 6 inches high. 
As a Green Manuring Crop Crimson Clover is of the greatest 
value, particularly as its season of growth permits it to be sown 
in summer or early autumn after a grain or vegetable crop has 
been removed and then be plowed under the next spring. Thus 
it does not in any way interfere with other crops. 
Plowing under a good crop of Scarlet Clover is equivalent to 
20 tons of 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 cost of seed and labor. 
It is the cheapest source of nitrogen, and has revolutionized the 
methods of farming in many States, has restored to profitable 
cultivation thousands of acres of poor land. 
As a Cover Crop and winter soil mulch it is peculiarly well adapted. 
It may be sown among corn, tobacco, sorghum and other crops 
after the last cultivation and when the primary crop is removed 
the Crimson Clover will come on and cover the ground fall, winter | 
andearly spring. It is one of the best cover crops for orchards and 
small fruits, and also one of the best sources of nitrogen for them. 
Harvesting and Feeding. Crimson Clover should not be fed 
either cured or green after the flowers begin to mature for the hairs 
of the calyx then begin to stiffen and harden and are apt to form 
troublesome “‘hair balls’’ in the stomachs of animals. 
Seeding. Sow at the rate of 15 pounds of seed per acre, either 
broadcast or drilled. Cover lightly with a harrow. If sown too 
early, especially in Southern States, Crimson Clover is apt to mature 
and form seeds the same season without making full growth. In 
the latitude of New York City sow from July 15 to September 15, 
and in the South as late as October. 
Price.—Henderson’s choicest new Crop Crimson clover seed of 
highest growing quality, thoroughly recleaned and free from weed 
seeds (See cut.) 18c. lb., $9.75 bushel of 60 lbs., $15.00 per 
100 Ibs. 
CLOVERS AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
By THOMAS SHAW : 
Author of “Forage Crops other than Grasses,” 
This book treats on the growth, cultivation and treatment of 
Clovers as applicable to all parts of the United States and Canada. 
The whole work is written from the standpoint of the practical 
farmer and cannot fail to exert a potent influence in the promotion 
“Soiling Crops and the Silo,” etc., etc. 
Price, postpaid, $1.00. 
THE BOOK OF ALFALFA 
History, Cultivation and Merits. Its Uses as a Forage and Fertilizer 
By F. D. COBURN, Secretary Kansas Department of Agriculture 
The most authoritative, complete and valuable work on this 
crop ever published. 
of progressive agriculture. 
One of the most important movements in American agriculture — 
is the general introduction of Alfalfa as a hay and pasture crop. 
Price, postpaid, $2.00. 
Farmers’ Cyclopedia of Agriculture. By Messrs. Wilcox.and Smith. Ex- 
periment Station Editors in U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. A thoroughly up-to- 
date, practical, concise and complete presentation of the whole subject of 
agriculture. Farm, orchard and garden crops, animals, feeding, dairying 
poultry, irrigation, drainage, fertilizing, spraying, etc., 6,000 topics, 700 pages, 
500 illustrations. Cloth bound, $3.50; half morocco................. $4.50 
Farm Crops. By C. W. Burkett. 
on the seeding, cultivation, handling and marketing of farm crops and on the 
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Cereals in America. By Prof. T. F. Hunt, of Cornell Agricultural College, 
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