Very good success has been obtained in the Southern and Central States, and in some of the Northern States, by seeding sweet clover in the late summer or early autumn. When there is sufficient moisture in the soil for germination and when good seed is used, better stands have been obtained by seeding about eight weeks before severe frosts are to be expected than from spring sowing. This is particularly true in regions where late spring droughts or severe summer droughts are likely to occur. Seeding at this time may be done after an early crop has been harvested and when weeds are not likely to be troublesome. Plants from fall seeding mature from 10 days to two weeks later the following season than plants from spring sowing of the same year. The later time of maturing is an advantage, in that the plants will be ready to cut during better haying weather. The root growth is not as large from fall seeding as from spring seeding, and therefore not quite as much humus is added to the soil. Late fall seedings are very likely to be injured from heaving on wet clay soils. UNHULLED SWEET-CLOVER SEED. Unhulled sweet-clover seed is sown principally in Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi. On the limestone soils of regions, which appear to be naturally adapted to sweet clover, very good results are obtained by using unhulled seed. It is not because southern-grown unhulled seed germinates better than northern-grown unhulled seed that better stands are obtained in the South from it, but it is mainly because southern farmers better understand the somewhat exacting conditions necessary for obtaining a stand with this kind of seed. Unhulled sweet clover contains a large percentage of hard seeds which will not germinate until they have been in the soil for some time and have been subjected to varying temperatures. Seeding experiments have been conducted at Arlington, Va., where unhulled seed which contained 90 per cent of hard seed was sown during each month of the winter. Good stands were obtained on those plats seeded at the rate of 24 pounds (3 pecks) of seed to the acre during December and January, and fair stands on the plats seeded at this rate in February. Later seedings failed to produce a stand. A large percentage of the unhulled seed sown in the South is seeded during January and the first part of February. Good stands are seldom obtained from unhulled seed south of the latitude of Washington, D. C., when the seed is sown later than the middle of February.