Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of clover (Trifolium hybridum) native to Europe, much grown in the United States for forage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers;
Trifolium hybridum .
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- noun Trifolium hybridum, a species of
clover with pinkish or whiteflowers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On such soils the growth of alsike is short and feeble, and any lack of moisture renders it increasingly so.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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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.
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The amounts of seed required per acre for the different kinds are about as follows: mammoth fifteen to twenty pounds; red (medium) twelve to fifteen pounds; crimson twelve to fifteen pounds; and alsike ten to twelve pounds.
Apple Growing M. C. Burritt
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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.
Apple Growing M. C. Burritt
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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.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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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.
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Italian rye, especially the latter, alfalfa, the medium red, the mammoth, alsike and crimson clovers, corn of many varieties, and the sorghums.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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Beyond the last strip of rich color, there spread, shining delicately blue, a great field of flax; and then the dusky green of alfalfa and alsike for the
Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905
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-- A variety of clover that may have gained more popularity than its merit warrants is alsike clover.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900
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The rule is to mix alsike with the red at the rate of one or two bushels of the former to six bushels of the latter.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900
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