. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . Effect on clover seed of Stages in development of red-cloverthe chalcis fly. seed: (a) flower; (b) immature seed vessel; (c) flower ripe; (d) ma-ture seed vessel; (e) Second crop of red clover nearly ready to cut for seed. Thefirst crop yielded 214 tons to the acre. 130 AGRICULTURE mowing the clover soon after it starts will do much to reducethe danger. Clover has at least one enemy that works after thecrop is stacked or mowed; this is the clover-hay worm. Itusually works in the bottom of the stack or mow, eatingthe softer portions of
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . Effect on clover seed of Stages in development of red-cloverthe chalcis fly. seed: (a) flower; (b) immature seed vessel; (c) flower ripe; (d) ma-ture seed vessel; (e) Second crop of red clover nearly ready to cut for seed. Thefirst crop yielded 214 tons to the acre. 130 AGRICULTURE mowing the clover soon after it starts will do much to reducethe danger. Clover has at least one enemy that works after thecrop is stacked or mowed; this is the clover-hay worm. Itusually works in the bottom of the stack or mow, eatingthe softer portions of the plant, but also damaging thefeeding qualities of the hay by its excrement and a webthat it leaves. Salting the hay near the bottom of thestack or mow will do much toward stopping the work ofthis pest. While the botanists tell us that red clover is a perennial,it is seldom able to maintain a stand for more than threeor four years, when it must be re-seeded. Red clover isusually followed by a grain crop before clover is againgrown. 6. Other Types of Clover None of the other clovers compare with red cloverin their general value to the northern and central a few other types are of great importance in otherse
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