Grasses and clovers, field roots, forage and fodder plants . early spring. Anotherplan would be to run the mower over it when it is a few inches portion of the crop which is then cut will furnish a good mulchin dry weather. An average crop of seed is from two to three bushelsper acre. Alsike Clover.—Alsike clover {Trifolium hybridum) is ofEuropean origin. It is a perennial, and is one of the most hardy andvigorous of all the varieties of clover as yet introduced into usually grows to the height of from twelve to eighteen inches, but incongenial soils and under favorable cli
Grasses and clovers, field roots, forage and fodder plants . early spring. Anotherplan would be to run the mower over it when it is a few inches portion of the crop which is then cut will furnish a good mulchin dry weather. An average crop of seed is from two to three bushelsper acre. Alsike Clover.—Alsike clover {Trifolium hybridum) is ofEuropean origin. It is a perennial, and is one of the most hardy andvigorous of all the varieties of clover as yet introduced into usually grows to the height of from twelve to eighteen inches, but incongenial soils and under favorable climatic conditions it attains aheight considerably greater. It is fine in its habits of growth, and hasa large proportion of leaves, hence its excellence as a food for live stockwhen used as fodder, more especially for sheep and lambs. The headsare numerous but small, and the blossoms are a beautiful delicatecrimson. Alsike clover is rapidly gaining in favor all over the northern halfof this continent. It seems singularly well adapted to the conditions of. Fig. ii. Alsike or Swedish Clover. 28 Grasses, Clovers^ Field Roots, Forage and Fodder Plants. growth in some of the New England States, in Ontario, Canada, andin some of the Provinces lying further to the east. But it will alsogrow in fine form in congenial situations westward from the States andProvinces named to the Pacific. Although very hardy it does not seemwell able to withstand the winters of Manitoba and Assiniboia, but inall the Noithern and Northwestern states of the Union, alsike cloverwill prove a valuable crop, and also in the adjoining states to thesouthward. This clover prefers damp, moist, loam soils, but it will also growfairly well in stiff clays. In the Northwestern States the best resultsare obtained from sowing alsike clover on damp, moist bottom lands,but in the states of the Union and in the Provinces of Canada lying tothe east from Michigan, where the annual rainfall is greater, it willgrow well on av
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