People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — Crimson Clover In Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Crimson Clover In Kansas.

We have grown small areas of Crimson clover for several years, and the effort has invariably resulted in failure. Being an annual plant and a reputed nitrogen gatherer, it was thought expedient to introduce it in one of the rotations under experiment, but it w T as found to do so poorly and yield so little that it was practically worthless. It can neither stand our dry summers nor the cold of our winters. JVhen sown in late summer, as is the practice in the east, where this plant is in favor, we found that only a small per cent would survive until spring. In no case has it compared favorably in yield or hardiness with the common red clover. In the eastern counties of the state ’t may do better, but even there I should not expect it to be worth cultivating, when red clover is so much surer. This has been the tenbr of the answers gived to numerous correspondents,- who, having read the glowing reports of this plant from tne east, were anxious to learn what it would do here.—Kansas Station. Manhattan.