Clovers




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Adaptation In Clovers

Adaptation in the varieties of clover considered will be more fully given when discussing these ...


Alfalfa

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) previous to its introduction into California, from Chili, about the ...


Alfalfa As A Fertilizer

Alfalfa is not considered equal to medium red clover as a direct means of fertilizing and otherw...


Alsike Clover

Alsike Clover (Trifolium hybridum) takes its name from a parish in the south of Sweden. From t...


Amounts Of Seed To Sow

The amounts of clover seed to sow are influenced by the object sought in sowing; by combinations...


As A Fertilizer

The growing of burr clover exercises a beneficial influence on the land. Its value for this purp...


As A Honey Plant

White clover is proverbial for its ability to furnish honey. There is probably no single plant w...


As Soiling Food

For being fed as soiling food, alfalfa has the very highest adaptation, owing, 1. To the long pe...


Bacteria And Clovers

The fact has long been known, even as long ago as the days of Pliny, and probably much before th...


Buffalo Clover

Buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) is a native species procumbent in its habit of growth. T...


Burr Clover

Burr Clover (Medicago maculata) is sometimes called Spotted Medick and sometimes California cl...


Clover As A Fertilizer

It would probably be correct to say that no plant has yet been introduced into American agricult...



Clover Sickness

On certain of the soils of Great Britain and probably on those of other countries in Europe, whe...



Crimson Clover

Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum) is also known by the names French, German, German Mammot...


Cultivating

Under some conditions, it is, in a sense, necessary to sow alfalfa in rows, and to give it culti...


Definition Of Clover

According to Johnson's Encyclopaedia, clover or trefoil is a plant of the genus Trifolium and th...


Depth To Bury The Seed

The depth to bury the seed varies with the conditions of soil, climate and season. Clover seeds,...



Distribution

Medium red clover is thought to be native to Europe. It was probably introduced into England som...


Distribution

It is thought that alfalfa is more widely distributed over the earth's surface, furnishes more f...


Distribution

Alsike clover is found in Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia. In these it has been cultiva...


Distribution

Mammoth clover has long been grown in several of the countries of Europe and Western Asia. It is...


Distribution

Crimson clover is probably indigenous to certain parts of Europe, especially to the countries th...


Distribution

White clover is certainly indigenous to Europe and to the Northern States, and probably Western ...


Distribution

Japan clover is said to be native to China and other countries in Eastern Asia. When introduced ...


Distribution

Burr clover is said to be native to Europe and North Africa, but not to North America, although ...


Distribution

Sweet clover is probably indigenous to the semi-arid regions of Asia. The name Bokhara would see...


Egyptian Clover

Egyptian clover (Trifolium Alexandrianum) is more commonly known in the Nile valley as Berseem. ...



Feeding

The clovers furnish a ration more nearly in balance than almost any other kind of food. If the a...


Fertilizers

On certain soils low in fertility and much deficient in humus, it may be necessary to apply fert...


Florida Clover

Florida clover (Desmodium tortuosum) is sometimes grown both for hay and pasture, more especiall...


For Lawns

No other plant of the clover family is so frequently sown when making lawns. For such a use it i...


Harvesting

All the varieties of clover, except alfalfa, are best cut for hay when in full bloom. Here and t...


Harvesting For Hay

Medium red clover is at its best for cutting for hay when in full bloom, and when a few of the h...


Harvesting For Hay

The best time to harvest alfalfa for hay is just after the blossoms begin to appear. Ordinarily,...


Harvesting For Hay

Alsike clover is ready to harvest for hay when the plants are just beginning to pass beyond the ...


Harvesting For Hay

Ordinarily, the methods of making the hay crop are the same as those followed in curing medium r...


Harvesting For Hay

Crimson clover is ready to be cut for hay when coming into, and a little before it is in, fulles...


Harvesting For Hay

Japan clover is a good hay plant when grown on strong soils. The quality is good also when grown...


Harvesting For Hay

Sweet clover is not a really good hay plant under any conditions, and if not cut until it become...


Introductory

In this book all the varieties of clover will be discussed that have hitherto been found of an...


Japan Clover

Japan Clover (Lespedeza striata) was introduced from China or Japan, or from both countries, i...


Japanese Clover

The United States Department of Agriculture has quite recently introduced a variety of clover kn...


Mammoth Clover

Mammoth Clover (Trifolium magnum) was long ago named Trifolium medium by Linnaeus. However app...


Medium Red Clover

Medium Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) is also known by the names Common Red Clover, Broad-Lea...


Methods Of Sowing

Clover seed may be sown by hand, by hand machines, and by the grain drill, with or without a gra...



Pasturing

When clover seed is sown in nurse crops that are matured before being harvested, the pasturing o...


Pasturing

Medium red clover will furnish grazing very suitable for any kind of live stock kept upon the fa...


Pasturing

The practice of pasturing alfalfa the first season, especially where it cannot be irrigated, is ...


Pasturing

Alsike clover has by some authorities been assigned to a high place as a pasture plant. For such...


Pasturing

Mammoth clover furnishes much pasture when it is grazed, on into July and sometimes even into Au...


Pasturing

Crimson clover may be pastured in the autumn or in the spring or at both seasons, either when so...


Pasturing

White clover ranks next to blue grass as a pasture plant within the area of its adaptation (see ...


Pasturing

Japan clover is much used in providing grazing in the South. Some writers have spoken of it as b...


Pasturing

Opinions differ as to the palatability of this grass. All are agreed that stock do not take kind...


Pasturing

Because of the bitter aromatic principle which it contains, known as commarin, stock dislike it,...


Place In The Rotation

All the varieties of clover discussed in this volume may be grown in certain rotations. Their ad...


Place In The Rotation

Medium red clover may be made to precede or to follow almost any crop that is grown upon the far...


Place In The Rotation

In a certain sense it can scarcely be said of alfalfa that it is a rotation plant, because of th...


Place In The Rotation

Much of what has been said about the place for medium red clover in the rotation may also apply ...


Place In The Rotation

The place for mammoth clover in the rotation is much the same as for the medium red variety. (Se...


Place In The Rotation

It cannot be said of crimson clover, in the ordinary usage of the word, that it is a rotation pl...


Place In The Rotation

Since white clover is usually not sown for meadow, but is rather sown for pasture, it can scarce...


Place In The Rotation

Japan clover can scarcely be classed as a rotation plant in the strict sense of the term, since ...


Place In The Rotation

Burr clover is grown more in the sense of a catch crop and for pasture than in that of a crop to...


Place In The Rotation

Since sweet clover seed is more commonly scattered in byplaces, or is self-sown from plants that...


Plan Of Discussion

Chapter I., that is, the present chapter, as already indicated, is introductory, and outlines th...



Preparing The Soil

Speaking in a general way, it would be correct to say that it would not be easy to get soil in t...


Preparing The Soil

In preparing the soil for alfalfa the aim should be to make a seed-bed clean, rich, fine, moist,...


Preparing The Soil

The preparation of the land for alsike clover on ordinary soils is the same as for medium red cl...


Preparing The Soil

The preparation of the soil called for by the mammoth clover is virtually the same as that requi...


Preparing The Soil

In preparing the seed-bed for crimson clover, the aim should be to secure fineness of pulverizat...


Preparing The Soil

The preparation of the soil for growing this plant is much the same as for growing other plants ...


Preparing The Soil

While careful preparation of the land will result in more certain and uniform germination in the...


Preparing The Soil

Since burr clover has much power to re-seed the land without preparation, it is more commonly re...


Preparing The Soil

Since sweet clover will grow on the firmest and most forbidding soils, even when self-sown, it w...


Renewing

Because of the comparatively short life of several of the most useful of the varieties of clover...


Renewing

When clover is grown for hay, it is not usual to try to renew the crop, because of the short-liv...


Renewing

Alfalfa may be renewed and also renovated where the stand secured at the first has been insuffic...


Renewing

Much that has been said with reference to the renewing of medium red clover will apply equally t...


Renewing

Since crimson clover is an annual, but little can be done in the sense of renewing it on the sam...


Renewing

White clover is probably more easily renewed than any plant of the clover family. In fact, it se...


Renewing

Since Japan clover is an annual, it is not necessary to renew it, in the sense in which more lon...


Renewing

Since this plant is an annual, it cannot be renewed in the sense in which renewal is possible wi...


Renewing

In the sense of a pasture or hay crop, it would not seem necessary to try to renew this crop, be...


Sainfoin

Sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa) is a perennial, leguminous, clover-like forage plant of the bean fa...


Sand Lucerne

Sand Lucerne (Medicago media), sometimes designated Medicago falcata, is probably simply a varie...


Seaside Clover

Seaside clover (Trifolium invulneratum) has rendered some service to agriculture in what is know...


Seasons For Sowing

Clovers are more commonly sown in the springtime in the Northern States and Canada than at any o...


Securing Seed

As a rule, seed is not produced from the first cutting for the season of medium red clover. It i...


Securing Seed

Localities differ much in their capacity to produce alfalfa seed. The best crops of seed are now...


Securing Seed

Alsike is a great producer of seed. This arises in part from the relatively large number of the ...


Securing Seed

It has been already intimated more seed will be obtained when the clover has been pastured or cu...


Securing Seed

Crimson clover does not ripen quite so quickly after flowering as common red clover, owing, in p...


Securing Seed

White clover is a great seed-producing plant. The season for bloom covers a period relatively lo...


Securing Seed

Japan clover is ready for being harvested when the major portion of the seeds are ripe. This is ...


Securing Seed

In the Gulf States the seed matures in April and May. The plants grow seed profusely. Sown in Oc...


Securing Seed

Nearly all of the seed sown in this country is imported. The author has not been able to obtain ...


Soils

Fortunately, this most useful plant will grow in a considerable variety of soils, though, of cou...


Soils

It was formerly thought by many that alfalfa would only grow vigorously on soils and subsoils sa...


Soils

The most suitable soil for alsike clover is a moist clay loam, not too friable nor too dense, an...


Soils

Mammoth clover may usually be successfully grown in soils well adapted to the growth of the medi...


Soils

Crimson clover though usually grown for the enrichment of soils will not, as a rule, make satisf...


Soils

Small white clover will grow on almost any kind of soil, but by no means equally well. Highest, ...


Soils

Japan clover is adapted to a wide range of soils. There would seem to be a concensus of opinion ...


Soils

While burr clover will grow with more or less success on almost any kind of soil possessed of a ...


Soils

But little can be gleaned from American sources on this subject. Notwithstanding, it may be said...




Sowing

The time for sowing clover seed is influenced considerably by the climatic conditions. Under som...


Sowing

The best season for sowing alfalfa will depend upon such conditions as relate to soil, moisture ...


Sowing

The time at which alsike clover may best be sown is the same as that for sowing the medium red v...


Sowing

Much of what has been said about the sowing of medium red clover will apply also to the sowing o...


Sowing

The date for sowing crimson clover would seem to depend more upon latitude than upon any other i...


Sowing

White clover is sown by much the same methods as the medium red variety. (See page 75.) But it w...


Sowing

Japan clover is more commonly sown in the spring, but it is sometimes sown in the autumn. There ...


Sowing

Usually, burr clover is allowed to re-seed itself after it has once become established in the so...




Storing

Clovers are ready to store when enough moisture has left the stems to prevent excessive fermenta...


Storing

Storing clover under cover is far preferable to putting it up in stacks, except in rainless clim...


Storing

When cured in cocks, these are preferably made small to facilitate quick curing, but usually fro...


Sweet Clover

Sweet clover is so named from the sweet odor which emanates from the living plants. It is of t...


Value As A Fertilizer

The high value of this plant as a fertilizer and soil improver cannot be questioned. But whether...


Value For Bee Pasture

All authorities are agreed as to the high value of this plant as a honey producer. The claim has...


Value On Alkali Soils

This plant has been grown to some extent to aid in removing alkali from soils superabundantly im...


Varieties

At least twenty varieties, native or naturalized, are found in Great Britain; more than twelve v...


White Clover

White Clover (Trifolium repens) is also called Dutch, White Dutch, White Trefoil, Creeping Tri...


Yellow Clover

Yellow clover (Medicago lupulina) is to be carefully distinguished from Hop clover (Medicago pro...