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6 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for ALSIKE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a kind of clover
a tall clover which is widely grown for fodder, native to Europe and naturalized in North America.
clover native to Europe and Asia
A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a European clover

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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.
The most valuable of the varieties named in providing pasture, include the medium red, the mammoth, the alsike and the small white.
The most valuable in providing hay are the medium red, alfalfa and alsike.
Of the varieties named, alfalfa, the small white and alsike varieties are perennial.
Others again, as the medium red, alsike and mammoth, are spreading and upright.
Alsike clover grows in about the same areas as the common and mammoth varieties, but it may also be grown further North, owing to its greater hardihood.
Alsike clover has much the same adaptation to soils as the medium and mammoth varieties, but will grow better than these on low-lying soils well stored with humus.
The alsike, living longer, is lower in its adaptation, and alfalfa, because of its long life, stands lowest in this respect.
But timothy should not be sown with alsike clover that is being grown for seed, since the seeds of these are so nearly alike in size that they cannot be separated.
When hay is wanted, the practice is very common of sowing timothy along with the medium red, mammoth and alsike varieties of clover.

Half the quantity of alsike will be enough, and one-third the quantity of the small white, or a little more than that.
The maximum amount of the seed of the alsike required when thus sown with grasses may be set down at 5 pounds per acre.
The clovers that are most helpful in smothering weeds are the mammoth, the medium and the alsike varieties.
When medium red clover is sown to provide pasture for periods of limited duration, it is frequently sown along with alsike clover and timothy.
But there may be instances in which medium red or alsike clover may improve the crop the first year or two that it is mown for hay.
For instance, on suitable soils alfalfa may be made an important feature in pastures composed otherwise of medium red and alsike clover and timothy.
It is known by various names, as Swedish, White Swedish, Alsace, Hybrid, Perennial Hybrid, Elegant and Pod Clover, but more commonly in America it is spoken of as alsike.
As a honey plant, alsike clover is without a rival among clovers, unless it be in the small white variety.
When in full bloom, a field of alsike clover is a very beautiful sight.
On such soils the growth of alsike is short and feeble, and any lack of moisture renders it increasingly so.
More especially should this be the aim if the alsike is sown to produce hay.
For instance, there may be seasons when alsike clover, and, indeed, any kind of clover, will succeed along with a catch crop sown for pasture or to provide soiling food.
Alsike clover is more commonly sown with a nurse crop.
Alsike clover has special adaptation for being sown along with timothy and red top on slough soils, and soils made up of rich deposit.
If but two varieties are wanted in the mixture, ordinarily these two should be alsike clover and timothy.
Although this clover does not mature until three to four weeks later than the medium red, nevertheless, it may be well to add the latter to the timothy and alsike clover mixture.
Subsequently, the hay crop will usually consist of alsike and timothy.
It is not wise, usually, to sow alsike clover alone for hay, owing to its tendency to lodge.
There may be conditions in which it would be advisable to sow alsike clover alone, as when it is wanted for seed, and subsequently for pasture.
Alsike clover growing alone could not be cured thus quickly.
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.
If alsike clover is added, the seed of the mammoth may be reduced by one pound, and the same amount of alsike added to the mixture.
On ordinary slough soils, this clover finds a congenial home, but it will not grow quite so well, relatively, in these as alsike clover.
The seeds of white clover are small, considerably smaller than those of alsike.
When sown with alsike clover to provide hay, 2 pounds of seed per acre would be a maximum amount, and 4 pounds when sown alone to provide seed.
It has been estimated that with correct conditions it would be found about equal in producing power and feeding value to alsike clover.

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