clover-growing

Updated: June 17, 2025

He showed me his best clover on a field that had received some manure made from feed part of which was purchased, and that had also received five hundred pounds per acre of hydrated lime, which he was finally persuaded to use, after becoming convinced that clover-growing on old abandoned land was not exactly as easy as clover-growing on a 'run-down' farm of almost virgin soil in the West."

Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins - The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,