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Growing Late Flowering Red Clover for Seed. [Sept., 



GROWING LATE FLOWERING RED 

 CLOVER OR SINGLE CUT COW-GRASS 

 FOR SEED. 



Late Flowering Red Clover or Single Cut Cow-grass is a 

 valuable plant for inclusion in leys, especially in those remaining 

 down for two years or more. This clover is a more bulky 

 plant than Broad Red Clover, but it flowers and matures later, 

 does not produce so much aftermath, and yields only one sub- 

 stantial crop in a season. However, it " holds " on the ground 

 longer than other varieties; it often yields well in a second 

 year's hay crop, and frequently contributes appreciably to the 

 herbage in the third year. 1J lb. per acre should be included 

 in the seeding of a two year ley and up to 4 lb. per acre in 

 leys of from three to six years.* 



Late Flowering Red Clover, although susceptible to clover 

 sickness (whether caused by eelworm or stem rot) is more 

 resistant than Broad Red Clover. In spite of these advantages 

 the former is very sparingly used compared with the latter, 

 and it is very desirable that its use should be extended. At 

 the present time, a considerable quantity of the clover 

 used in England is imported, and as, for long duration leys, 

 it is important to use seed harvested in England, there is in 

 this country a good opening for the growth of increased 

 supplies. This end might be partly achieved if growers would 

 substitute Single Cut Cow-grass for Broad Red Clover in every 

 second or every third rotation; this is in itself a desirable 

 procedure on account of the heavy annual loss through clover 

 sickness in the clover growing areas — particularly East Anglia. 



Growing for Seed. — Single Cut Cow-grass is principally pro- 

 duced in Essex, Suffolk, and to a less degree in the other 

 Eastern Counties, and in Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Berk- 

 shire and Wiltshire. 



Cultivation and Manuring. — The cultivation does not differ 

 from that ordinarily adopted for the cereal nurse crops. A 

 dressing of phosphatic manure should be given to the nurse 

 crop, e.g., 5 cwt. of basic slag in autumn or 5 cwt. of super- 

 phosphate in spring, per acre. 



Seed and Sowing. — The only universally reliable character by 

 which to distinguish Late Flowering Red Clover from ordinary 

 Red Clover is the time of flowering. Locally grown seed 

 should be sown, because the character of the cron can he 



At Cockle l J ark on soil very subject to clover sickness 51b. is included in a 

 mixture for a one year ley. 



