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T. W, WOOD & SONS 
SEDDSMDN SINCE 187S 
RXCH3MEOND, VIRG-INIA 
Alfalfa 
Red and Sapling: 
Clover Seed 
Guaranteed Origin 
WOOD'S VERIFIED ORIGIN CLOVER SEEDS 
The U. S. Government established the Verification Service as a g-uarantee to farmers the use of adapted known 
origrin clover seed. This service does not add to the cost, but is a protection to buyers in securing: seed from 
sources that have proven to be hardy, adaptable and giving" high yielding crops. 
Demand TJ. S. Verified Origin clover seeds for your own protection. 
Inrk/'iilafo All Plrkvai** For red, sapling, alsike, white and crimson clovers, use “Cul'ture B.” For alfalfa, 
niucuidie v^iovers sweet and bur clovers, use “Culture A.” 
Prices, both cultures: V^-bus. size 30c; l-bus. size 50c; 2*4-bus. size $1.00, postpaid. 
Grown in the best clover producing sec¬ 
tions of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Very 
winter hardy and highly recommended 
for use in the piedmont and mountain 
sections of Virginia, North Carolina and 
states west and north. In field tests made 
by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Blacksburg, Va., seed from the 
above localities made larger yields of hay 
than from any of the other northern and 
western states. 
Red Cl over 
Sow 12 to 15 lbs. 
per acre 
Furnishes excellent pasturage or two 
cuttings of hay a year; adds nitrogen and 
humus to the soil. Sow from February 
to April on any well drained, limed and 
fertilized soil. 
A Good Mixture: 8 lbs. red clover, 15 
lbs. orchard grass and 12 lbs. tall meadow 
oat grass. They ripen together and make 
a larger yield of better quality hay than 
sown alone. Cut in full bloom. 
American Red Clover 
Al sil<e Clovei 
Sheriff O. B. Darnell, Scott Co., Va., standing in his 100-acre field of WOOD’S VIRGINIA 
NORTHERN NECK RED CEOVER. Note the perfect stand, freedom from disease, and 
tall, vigorous growth that has crowded out all weeds. 
Virginia Northern Neck Red Clover 
For several centuries farmers on a very fertile isolated peninsula 
in Virginia called the “Northern Neck” were forced to save their 
own red clover seed year after year. This seed has become re¬ 
sistant to anthracnose or wilt, which destroys clover brought into 
the southeast from other sections. Repeated tests by the Federal 
and State Departments of Agriculture and innumerable farmers 
have proved that Virginia Northern Neck Red Clover will con¬ 
sistently give bumper hay crops where seed from other sources 
have failed. Every farmer who plants it says it is worth twice the 
price of other red clover seed. We have never had enough of this 
strain to supply the demand. 
BUR CLOVER Clover is one of the most valuable and 
economical crops that can be raised in the 
South. It gives everything" and asks nothing. In the winter of 1936 
five acres gave 2,000 cow-grazing days, and improved the soil by 
adding nitrogen and humus. We are necessarily enthusiastic about 
bur clover. With mixtures of other crops it is a splendid founda¬ 
tion for profitable animal husbandry. California Bur Clover is 
eaten with more relish by cows than other strains, is earlier and 
prolongs the grazing season.” 
Wood’s Bur Clover is hulled seed of the California strain, which 
costs less per acre to sow, is easier to get a stand, grows off faster 
and earlier, and withstands dry weather better. It is adapted to 
nearly all soils in the South—clays and loams in i)articular. It 
does not smother out other pasture grasses or become smothered 
out itself. It is included in all Wood’s Permanent Pasture Mixtures. 
It reseeds abundantly in May, even with close grazing. One 
seed crop will furnish seed for 3 to 5 years with the land continu¬ 
ing in cultivation of summer croi)s. It is extremely winter hardy. 
Inoculate and sow 12 to 15 pounds per acre from September •to 
March. 
CRIMSON CLOVER A winter legume for hay, pasture and 
soil improvement. Inoculate and sow 
20 lbs. per acre from August till October on all lands not growing 
another crop. 
So-w £i to 8 lbs. 
per acre. 
Include it in every pasture mixture 
Alsike clover has plenty of leaf, grows 
thicker, is finer stemmed, makes better 
hay and more and better grazing than red 
clover, and will grow on soils too acid, 
poor, wet or deficient in lime to produce 
a paying crop of other clovers. It is 
hardier and will stand uncut without de¬ 
teriorating the quality of the hay better 
than other clovers. It is adapted to a 
variety of soils, succeeding on light up¬ 
land and loamy as well as on bottom 
lands. The hay also contains a higher per cent of digestible 
protein. Particularly valuable for grazing, for it makes a thick 
undergrowth, greatly increasing the yield. If you have not suc¬ 
ceeded in getting a stand of other clovers because your land is acid 
or moist, sow alsike. 
Mammoth, or Sapling Clover 
Similar to red clover, the difference being that it grows larger 
and is later in maturing. It is considered superior as an improver 
on account of the extra growth. It is a good variety for thin soils 
or to seed with timothy, meadow fescue and herds grass. In ap¬ 
pearance the seed is identical with red clover, and it is impossible 
to distinguish between them. We always obtain our supplies from 
reliable sources, and use every reasonable care to supply Mammoth 
or Sapling clover as ordered. Sow 12 to 15 pounds to the acre by 
itself; or with timothy sow 6 pounds of clover and 8 pounds of 
timothy. Another good mixture is had by adding 6 pounds of herds 
grass or red top to the clover and timothy. 
BLACK MEDIC CLOVER 
WOOD’S DIXIE WHITE CLOVER 
A wonderful spring crop for the South 
Wood’s Dixie White Clover is one of the few plants that fur¬ 
nishes abundant grazing throughout the year under severe southern 
conditions. The hottest dry summers do not stop its steady growth. 
It has no equal for winter and early spring grazing by its vigorous 
growth in the coldest weather. 
It blooms a month earlier than common white clover, grow¬ 
ing several inches taller with leaves and stems larger. In a 
two-year test at our experiment station with varieties from all 
over the world it made by far the best grazing. It was the earliest 
to bloom, made *^he most luxuriant winter and early spring growth, 
10 inches tall and stood the hot dry summers best. 
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