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Physical Benefit Of The Roots

Categories: THE CLOVERS

While the roots and stubble contain

less than two fifths of the total plant-food in a clover crop, one may

not safely infer that the removal of the crop for hay reduces the

beneficial effect of the clover to the soil fully 60 per cent, or more.

The roots break up the soil in a way not possible to a mass of tops

plowed down. They improve the physical condition of the subsoil as well

as the top soil. The amount of the benefit depends in part upon the

nature of the land. Its value cannot be surely determined, but the

facts are called to mind as an aid to judgment in deciding upon the

method of handling the clover crop.



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