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Legumes Are the Cheapest Fertilizers 
Key to Cut of Weed Seeds 
1, bracted plaintain; 2, black seeded plantain; 3, rag weed; 4, ox-eye daisy; 5, red clover; 
6, catmint; 7, crabgrass; 8, field dodder; 9, sorrel; 10, dog fennel; 11, chickweed; 12, lamb’s 
quarter; 13, green foxtail; 14, prickly sida; 15, vervain; 16, madder; 17, yellow foxtail; 18, 
clover dodder; 19, heal-all; 20, yellow trefoil; 21, spurge; 22, curled dock; 23, lady’s thumb; 
24, buckhorn; rounded face, grooved face, shown in 29; 25, mustard; 26, alsike clover; 
27, oxtongue; 28, pigweed; 29, buckhorn; 30, Canada thistle; 31, campion; 32, wild geranium; 
33, pepper grass; 34, camomile; 35, mallow. 
Mammoth Red Clover 
Mammoth red clover is a soil builder, makes a very heavy top growth, also has a large 
root system. A good clover to mix with sweet clover. 
Mammoth clover will grow on sour soil, more so than medium red, and will grow where 
sweet clover and alfalfa will not. It is also grown on thin, sandy land where medium red 
clover would make only a very small growth. 
If you want a clover to use as fertilizer and plow under next summer, Mammoth is the 
clover you want. For best results inoculate with McQueen’s or Kelly’s inoculator. For 
price see page 35. 
Korean Lespedeza 
All Illinois Grown, No Dodder 
Facts Concerning It 
We sell and recommend to use only Korean Lespedeza in central Illinois or same latitude. 
Suitable for hay and pasture. Korean Japan Clover starts in the spring, has large foliage, 
grows more rapidly and is ready to graze before the ordinary variety. The roots penetrate 
eight inches, making it highly drought resistant. Thrives on acid and worn out soils; no 
lime preparation required; does well where other clovers may fail. Furnishes excellent 
pasture crop from July well into September when most pasture crops are often at their 
poorest. Makes excellent quality hay, having produced as high as two tons air-dryed hay 
per acre. It is a legume, therefore a soil builder, adding both nitrogen and humus to soil, 
and is drought resistant. It is an annual, reseeding itself each year without soil prepara¬ 
tion; seeding usually done in April. Rate of seeding: 15 to 18 lbs. per acre where full crop 
is desired first year; 8 to 10 lbs. if first crop is permitted to reseed itself for full crop the 
second year. It is not recommended for wet or shaded land. 
What Lespedeza Will Do 
Produce 1,800 to 4,500 lbs. of good hay per acre according to soil. 
Will grow on poor sour soils where other legumes will not grow. 
Can be seeded at a cost of 75 cents to $1.00 per acre. 
Stand drouth better than any other legume. 
Will produce 3O'O to 800 pounds of seed per acre. 
Will reseed itself year after year. 
Will not grow if covered deep. Plant shallow or on top of ground. 
Lespedeza cannot be scarified successfully. Should be sown in January or February if 
possible. If with oats or barley sow early. Will not do well without inoculatiqn. Bacteria 
do not live long: in sour or acid soils, so must be supplied by inoculation,. 
