Archive image from page 250 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 306. Beggarweed. cutting should not be made too late, else the third growth may not have sufficient time to mature seed before the November frosts destroy the plants ; and if it is cut after full bloom, there will be considerable loss, due to the falling of the lower leaves. Fair yields are one ton per acre for each cutting, though not uncommonly the two cuttings will make four
Archive image from page 250 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 306. Beggarweed. cutting should not be made too late, else the third growth may not have sufficient time to mature seed before the November frosts destroy the plants ; and if it is cut after full bloom, there will be considerable loss, due to the falling of the lower leaves. Fair yields are one ton per acre for each cutting, though not uncommonly the two cuttings will make four to six tons. The hay is easily cured by the ordinary methods of handling. Uses. As a cover-crop. — As a cover- crop for orchards in sections where it will succeed, beggarweed has no superior. It is a vigorous grower, a good nitrogen-gather- er and is fret- from the nema- tode worms which produce root-knot. For the last reason it is particularly desirable as a cover-crop ,..m:. tJ m Fig. 307. Field of beggarweed. for peaches, figs and other fruits susceptible to in- jury from nematodes, and its self-sowing habit makes it cheap. As a forage.—Beggarweed is rich in protein and makes a good quality of forage, relished by farm stock. Its nutritive ratio is about the same as that of red clover. It is most effectual when fed with a coarse forage rather strong in car- bohydrates. BERSEEM. Trifolium Alexandrinum, Linn. Legu- minosce. Known also as Egyptian clover. Fig. 308. By V. A. Clark. An annual, clover-like forage plant recently in- troduced from Egypt and now being grown experi- mentally in the United States, especially in the irrigated Southwest. Its particular recommendations are rapid growth, adapta- bility to alkali lands and usefulness i n reclaiming them, high rank as a nitro- gen-gatherer, unusual food value and conditioning prop- erties, exceptional succu- lence, palatability and heavy yield. Berseem is the basis of Egyptian agricul- ture, both by reason of its
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