. Steckler's seed catalogue and garden manual for the southern states : 1901 . e would yield somuch or so valuable hay. The analysis of red clover gives 16 per cent,albuminoids and 41 carbohydrates The averageof two analvsis of Japan clover albu-minoids and 56 carbohydrates, placing it above redclover in nutritive value. PRODUCT OF HAY. On medium to good land it ranges from one tothree tons per acre ; and this may be obtained afterhaving during the summer harvested from thesame land a good crop of grain and straw. QUALITY. Some of our farmers who have been mowingLespedeza striata f
. Steckler's seed catalogue and garden manual for the southern states : 1901 . e would yield somuch or so valuable hay. The analysis of red clover gives 16 per cent,albuminoids and 41 carbohydrates The averageof two analvsis of Japan clover albu-minoids and 56 carbohydrates, placing it above redclover in nutritive value. PRODUCT OF HAY. On medium to good land it ranges from one tothree tons per acre ; and this may be obtained afterhaving during the summer harvested from thesame land a good crop of grain and straw. QUALITY. Some of our farmers who have been mowingLespedeza striata for five or ten years, regard it as the soundest, best, most wholesome and pala-table hay they ever used. These mowings haveranged from two to three hundred tons on a singlefarm in one season. Yet no complaint as to qual-ity ,• or relish of animals for it, or as to its nutritivevalue and good effect on the stock has ever reachedus. Those who have used it longest and in largestquantities and kept animals—cattle, sheep, horsesand mules—in best condition, commend it Japan Clover. SEEDING. A measured half bushel of seed per acre may besown broadcast the first week in March south ofparallel 32 o of latitude, a few days later as weproceed northward for each degree or two. Sownin the Fall ©r Winter it springs up, but freezesoften throw it out and destroy it. As alreadystated, it germinates and grows well on land inany condition, if the surface is not so loose as tolet the seed sink too deep. When land has beenprepared for or sown in grain, the winter rainsput it in about the best condition for growing thisplant for heavy crops of hay. For price, see ice list. BURR CLOVER. Medicago Macculata. This variety of Clover was brought from Chili to California and thence to the Statesunder the name of California Clover. It is often taken for Lucerne, which name iswronglv applied. The Burr Clover has only two or three yellow blossoms in each cluster, 9^ J. STECKXER SEED CO., LTD., A
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