Trifolium hybridum—Alsike Clover—has, perhaps, got its specific name from possessing appearances and qualities intermediate between the broad-leaf and the Dutch clovers.
On such soils the growth of alsike is short and feeble, and any lack of moisture renders it increasingly so.
When in full bloom, a field of alsike clover is a very beautiful sight.
But even when grown for the purpose named, some alsike clover sown along with the white clover would add to the yield of hay, and without in any considerable degree lessening its value for the use named.
It would probably be correct to say that with the area of adaptation for this plant, no kind of pasture can be grown on reasonably moist land that would not be benefited by having alsike in it.
Much of the province of Ontario has very high adaptation to the growth of alsike clover, and in several counties of that province large quantities are grown, not only for hay, but also for seed.
But if alsike is sown in the mixture, though it may be little in evidence the first year, it will show itself the second year and probably the third year.
On ordinary slough soils, this clover finds a congenial home, but it will not grow quite so well, relatively, in these as alsike clover.
If but two varieties are wanted in the mixture, ordinarily these two should bealsike clover and timothy.
Ordinarily, on good soils a combined crop of alsike clover should yield from 1-1/2 to 2 tons per acre of very excellent hay.
Small, white clover has adaptation for soils very similar to that of alsike clover.
Nor should the fact be lost sight of that the tendency to produce bloat in alsike clover is much the same as in medium red clover.
It would doubtless be good policy, therefore, for the growers to encourage the sowing of alsike clover where bees are much kept, since the growth of this clover is less hindered by dry weather at the season named.
His hope was in the clover, but as the fall came on the red clover was found to have failed almost completely, and the alsike was one-half a stand.
We expect to sell wheat and some corn, and if successful we shall sell some soy beans, alsike seed, and red clover seed.
Fourth year: Harvest the red clover for hay and the alsike for seed, and apply limestone after plowing early for wheat.
Third year: Wheat with alsike on twenty acres and red clover on the other twenty, seeded in the early spring.
Fifth year: Wheat, with alsike and red clover seeded and clipped as before.
Then it may be applied to thealsike only until the red clover seed crop is removed, and then again to any part of the field, which may also be used for fall pasture.
The spring before we were married he reseeded that forty, sowing mixed alsike and timothy.
In the Eastern and Central States, the most suitable pastures are made up of blue grass, timothy, and orchard grass, and of the common red, white and alsike clovers.
If alsike clover grows more readily than the red clover, the probability of acidity grows stronger because the alsike can thrive under more acid soil conditions than can the red.
Alsike is more nearly perennial than the red which practically lasts only through its second season, when its seed crop has been made, and its function performed.
Timothy and red-top should be seeded with it, and in the spring red and alsike clover should be added.
A variety of clover that may have gained more popularity than its merit warrants is alsike clover.
As the seed of the alsike is hardly half as large as that of the red, the proportion in the mixture is greater than some farmers realize.
The practice is an excellent one where the red will not grow, and the alsike adds fertility, but when the soil has been made alkaline, the red clover should have nearly all the room.
The experienced farmer who notes the inclination of his soil to favor alsike clover, red-top, sorrel, and plantain should infer that lime is lacking.
Although it is somewhat easier to secure a stand of this clover, alsike does not grow rank enough to make a good cover or green manure crop.
The custom of mixing red and alsike seed has become widespread, and distinctly acid soils are marked in the clover flowering season by the profusion of the distinctive alsike bloom to the exclusion of the red.
The prevalence ofalsike clover in a farming region is indicative of lack of lime.
As red clover seedings begin to fail, the alsike gains in popularity, and where a soil is decidedly sour the alsike is most in evidence.
Most legumes like lime, and alsike clover is not an exception, but is far more acid-resistant than the red.
Would you want the Alsike clover or sweet clover for an apple orchard?
We have put up the alsike and timothy every year for hay with the usual machinery, and there has not been over a half dozen trees seriously damaged.
Part of this ground was in grain and seeded to alsike and timothy the year before; the balance was the new land referred to, which we had broken and immediately seeded down to alsike and timothy, with oats as a nurse crop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alsike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
