HINTS ON RAISING FARM CROPS 
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our discussion to the important farm clovers 
in this country, such as red clover, alsike clover, 
; white clover and crimson clover. 
Red clover seems to be the most popular var- 
l iety of the clovers. There is another closely 
related clover that largely resembles red clover, 
and this is the mammoth clover. Mammoth 
clover usually grows a little ranker than red 
clover, and matures somewhat later. Other¬ 
wise the two varieties are quite similar. Red 
clover is especially popular east of the Mis¬ 
souri River, in the northern section of our 
country, but it does not appear to thrive as 
well in most of the southern states. No doubt 
it would be as popular in the western part of 
. our country also, but for the fact that alfalfa 
\ is so easily grown in the west. 
Much the same methods are used in sowing 
red clover as we discussed under alfalfa. 
Sometimes, where winter wheat is commonly 
raised, the clover seed is sown with the win¬ 
ter wheat, in the late summer, with good re¬ 
sults. As winter wheat is removed from the 
land comparatively early, makes little shade, 
and is moderate in its moisture demand, it 
makes a splendid nurse crop for the new seed-^ 
ing. Clover is often sown in connection with 
timothy so that if the clover, for any reason, 
fails to survive, the farmer still has the tim¬ 
othy to see him through. Usually, a little more 
timothy seed is used than clover seed, the pro¬ 
portion generally being about nine pounds of 
timothy per acre, to about six or seven pounds 
of the clover. 
The correcting of the soil acidity, inocula- 
