. Annual white sweet clover and strains of the biennial form . n. As an orchard cover crop the annual white sweet clover may havean important place. In Nebraska a cover crop that will die in thefall is wanted. This clover would be such a crop. In many or-chards on the Atlantic coast also a legume that will die in the fall,leaving a good growth of dead stalks to hold the snow, may beuseful. A correspondent in Ohio believes that a mixture of annualwhite sweet clover and hairy vetch seeded in orchards and vineyardsin July may prove valuable. Perhaps the most important place for annual white sweet
. Annual white sweet clover and strains of the biennial form . n. As an orchard cover crop the annual white sweet clover may havean important place. In Nebraska a cover crop that will die in thefall is wanted. This clover would be such a crop. In many or-chards on the Atlantic coast also a legume that will die in the fall,leaving a good growth of dead stalks to hold the snow, may beuseful. A correspondent in Ohio believes that a mixture of annualwhite sweet clover and hairy vetch seeded in orchards and vineyardsin July may prove valuable. Perhaps the most important place for annual white sweet clover asa soil improver will be as a catch crop, to be seeded after early po-tatoes, grain, or any crop coming off by early August. Seeded atthat time this will make a considerable growth before frost. At 16 Department Circular 169, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. the Arlington Experimental Farm, Va., the annual white sweetclover was seeded on August 11. On September 20 the plants were2 to 6 inches high, and on October 16 they averaged knee-high. It Afl §.•. i ^ftyd* i
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