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Purdue University Department of Agronomy Agricultural Experiment Station
NAMED VARIETIES OF RED CLOVER
Named varieties of red clover, are new to the farmer, but as varieties having superior characteristics are developed at experiment stations, they will carry specific germ plasm, and be identified by varietal names. The first multiplication of breeders seed will be identified as foundation seed, th9 next generation will be registered and the third will be certified seed which will not be eligible for recertification.
Kenland Red Clover
Kenland should come into extensive use in the southern half of Indiana, due its superior performance in that area. Resistance to southern anthracnose is its most important advantage. This disease attacks clover rather frequently causing leaves and stems to wither and turn black with reduction in stand, yield and quality of forage. Hay yields have been reduced as much as 50 per cent by this trouble in fields throughout southern Indiana Major use of the variety should be in that part of the state.
Kenland red clover, developed at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, grown under certification on 9,000 acres in new red clover seed producing areas of the West will be available for seeding 150,000 acres in the corn belt in 1951. Seed yields in western states ranging up to 20 bushels per acre under irrigation make possible the rapid multiplication of breeders seed supplied from the originating Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
In the northern part of the state, the northern anthracnose generally attacks clover. In parts of Indiana, usually the central part of the state, the two strains of the disease overlap. Kenland is not resistant to the northern strain. However, in demonstrations carried out by county agents to date, Kenland has been equal to any strains with which it has been compared in northern Indiana. In the southern half, the superiority of Kenland over Cumberland and other commonly grown red clover strains should justify use of the variety as soon as supplies of certified seed are available.
While a few Indiana farmers have grown this variety for seed, the major multiplication of foundation, registered, and certified seed will be made in western states and such seed will be made available by Indiana seedsmen.
Midland Red Clover
Midland is a mechanical mixture of strains of native red clover found super-in most characteristics to widely grown red clover in the northern half of Indiana and similar latitudes of Illinois, Iowa and Ohio in experiment Station and U.S.D.A. cooperative tests. Component strains, named for farmers growing them for many years, follow:
Indiana; Otten Illinois; Letcher, Rand Ohio;	Van Fossen
Iowa;	Emerson