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down weeds and to be plowed under as manure, with most 
excellent results. When sown in July and August it furnishes 
excellent pasture in November and December, can also be 
pastured some in early spring without injury to either hay or 
seed crop. Where Red Clover failed to give a good stand or 
blighted on wheat stubble, the stubble can be harrowed over 
and Crimson Clover sown, which will more than make up 
the loss of the Red Clover. 
Crimson Clover weighs sixty pounds to the bushel. Ten to 
fifteen pounds are necessary to seed an acre properly, and 
after sowing the seed it should always be covered by harrowing 
with a light harrow. There are five types of Crimson Clover, 
one only of which is hardy: In the original seed supply 
Delaware fortunately secured the hardy type. It has been 
grown here now for nine years ; consequently it is the ninth 
generation seed, and being of the hardy type and thoroughly 
acclimated it succeeds in extreme northern latitudes, where 
it was thought it would not withstand the winter. In the 
Middle, Atlantic and Southern States it naturally flourishes. 
Every farmer misses a golden opportunity if he fails to give 
it a trial on his own grounds. 
Professor Voorhees and other experimenters of high 
authority regard it as hardy as Red Clover. It withstood the 
winter at the Maine experimental station and attained a growth 
of 26 inches. Good results have been obtained in northern 
New York, and I believe that where good acclimated American 
grown seed oi the hardy type is used it will succeed anywhere 
that Red Clover will. I believe also that the chief cause of 
failure has been invariably in the use of seed that was not of 
the hardy type, or was imported and not acclimated or from 
partially germinated seed by which it was rendered unfertile. 
Crimson Clover will grow on poor light soils when other 
grasses fail. It does not interfere with, but is an addition to 
other farm crops, as with it a crop of hay can be removed 
from the land and a crop of corn, tomatoes, peas, beans, 
potatoes or any other cultivated crop grown each yearr In 
this respect it is decidedly the peer of all other clovers or 
leguminous plants, and justly entitled to be called The Won- 
derful Forage Plant, The Great Nitrogen Gatherer, The 
Mortgage Lifter, The Great Soil Renovator, etc. By its use 
poor soils can be improved more rapidly than by any other 
method. Therefore, it is the cheapest and best fertilizer. 
It makes an abundant food of highest quality. As pasture, 
stock prefer it to other grass. As a soiling crop or for ensilage 
it cannot be excelled, and for hay stock not only have a de- 
cided preference for it, but they thrive remarkably upon it. 
