CLOVER GROWING 
SUGGESTIONS 
1. Use seed from a section as poor or poorer and as cold or colder than your own, which has been 
grown there at least 10 years. Ours meets this standard. 
2. Don’t smother young seedling by sowing 2 \ or 3 bu. of grain per acre. 1| bu. will give a maxi¬ 
mum yield, so say our N. Y. State College. We agree. Barley is one of the best nurse crops. 
3. Test your soil and use lime if necessary. If you can’t afford a good application sow what 
your grain drill will run. About 300 lbs. of Super Phosphate usually pays. 
4. Late spring plowing usually dries out so it is hard to catch a seeding. 
5. 2 qts. of Timothy per acre will put about 40 seeds on each sq. ft. We doubt the advisability 
of using more on ordinary conditions. A lot of Timothy chokes clover like weeds in a culti¬ 
vated crop because it is a ranker growing plant. 
6. Here is the best rule of all: Grow 2 cultivated crops on your land before trying to seed. 
You don’t have to buy anything to follow this suggestion. Try it and be convinced. It 
applies to alfalfa as well as red clover. 
7. Top dress your new seeding with manure if possible, especially on land that has just grown a 
crop of cabbage. 
8. An old time clover seed grower from the section where our seed is produced, told us if we 
couldn’t get a stand with 6 qts. of their seed per acre, we wouldn’t if we used 6 bu. of either 
theirs or any other. 
A bushel basket set in the after growth where our hardy Clover seed was used is nearly out 
of sight, while the one where common seed was used shows for itself. The first cutting here was 
not made until about the middle of August, 1933. 
If you are not convinced we have hardy Clover seed, ask the State College. They have 
tested Clover seed for 5 or 6 years. 
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