. Forage plants and grasses : vegetable and flower seeds and seed potatoes. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Forage plants Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State). CATALOGUE OF OLIVER H. DREW, HIBERNTA, NEW YORK 11 CRIMSON CLOVER. (Trifolia Incarnatum.) Large package by mail, 10 cents ; 20 cents per lb. 10 lbs., $ 11 Never in the history of Agriculture has the discovery of an economic plant been more ; 1. You can get a heavy crop of hay 3 months after sowing seed. 2. Can be cut two to four times a season. 3. It will grow on clover-sick land. 4.
. Forage plants and grasses : vegetable and flower seeds and seed potatoes. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Forage plants Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State). CATALOGUE OF OLIVER H. DREW, HIBERNTA, NEW YORK 11 CRIMSON CLOVER. (Trifolia Incarnatum.) Large package by mail, 10 cents ; 20 cents per lb. 10 lbs., $ 11 Never in the history of Agriculture has the discovery of an economic plant been more ; 1. You can get a heavy crop of hay 3 months after sowing seed. 2. Can be cut two to four times a season. 3. It will grow on clover-sick land. 4. It will grow where you can't raise a spear of red clover. 5. Valuable for soiling and silage. 6. A Fall, Summer and Spring pasturage. 7. In the South it makes a rich winter pasturage 8. Gathers nitrogen. Will double your crops by ploughing under, and will double the yield on worn-out land. 9. Valuable as a seed producer. The raising of Crimson Clover seed is now a leading and most profitable crop to the Delaware farmer. Raise your own seed; you do not have to have ex- pensive cleaning machinery for that purpose, it grows just as well or better when sown in the chaff, in fact it is nature's Farm Journal speaks thus of Crimson Clover : "We find it about as hardy as red clover. In fact, we see no difference in this respect. For early spring pasture it is superior to anything we have yet discovered. If sown early enough, so that it gf ts sufficient top to pasture in the fall, grazing it at this sea- son is a benefit rather than an injury to the plant. When pastured in the spring, stock should be turned on as soon as the ground is solid enough to bear the tramping. If a good stand has been secured, and the crop has not been injured by winter weather, it may be grazed for two or three weeks in spring and will then grow a good crop of hay. Crimson Clover. Such treatment will delay the harvest time, which is in some cases an advantage, as if left to itself it matures before
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