. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. LEGUMES FOR FORAGE 185 mined by comparing the composition and price with those of other feeds. Many mixed feeds, discussed in Chapter XI, contain more or less alfalfa meal. II. Red Clover Medium red clover.—This clover, commonly known simply as red clover, is the most important legume in the humid sections of the northern two-thirds of the United States, where, grown in rotation with corn and th
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. LEGUMES FOR FORAGE 185 mined by comparing the composition and price with those of other feeds. Many mixed feeds, discussed in Chapter XI, contain more or less alfalfa meal. II. Red Clover Medium red clover.—This clover, commonly known simply as red clover, is the most important legume in the humid sections of the northern two-thirds of the United States, where, grown in rotation with corn and the cereals, it so helpfully serves for hay and pas- ture production and for the main- tenance of soil fertility. Clover is chiefly seeded in combination with timothy, 19,542,000 acres of mixed clover and timothy being grown for hay in the United States in 1909, compared with only 2,443,- 000 acres of clover alone. Eed clover does best on well-drained soils rich in lime, not thriving on a water-logged or acid soil. But few plants live over 3 years, and the crop is usually treated as a bi- ennial. Eed clover generally yields a heavy first crop of hay, with a lighter second cutting, which is often allowed to mature for seed. In the southern states, where it does not thrive during the heat of summer, red clover is sometimes grown as a winter annual, the first crop being cut in the spring and the second in early summer. The av- erage yield of clover hay per acre, according to the census of 1910, was tons, but under favorable conditions much higher returns are se- cured, the yield in 2 cuttings ranging from 2 to 4 tons or even more per acre. Where it flourishes, alfalfa out-yields red clover. However, red clover is better adapted for short-time rotations with other crops like corn and the cereals than the longer-lived alfalfa, which is often diffi- cult to establish and is therefore grown in the same field for many years, if possible. In their eagerness to grow alfalfa many eas
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