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Show Cause of Failure With Stand of Clover Crop Not the least Important factor In obtaining satisfactory stands of clover Is the sowing of good seed. A furmer might use ground limestone to correct acidity of his soil nnd apply manure and phosphate to Insure a growth of clover, yet get n poor stand 0 clover due to poor seed. Out of 218 samples of red clover seed tested the past year at one ex- 1 perimenlal station, 70 samples showed , Jin average f 27 per cent seed so hard that they will not grow. This j moans Ihat if seed of this sort were ; s.vn at the usual rate only three- f'.!i:i!is or a stand would result if all j of it tcupcd (he usual clover hazards. . |