Rye, vetch, Italian ryegrass, and fall-sown grain crops are often seeded with crimson clover. Besides making a valuable addition to the clover (fig. 4), these companion crops help bolster up a thin stand. Such crops are seeded from one-half to one-third the normal crop rate and the crimson clover is seeded at the normal rate. Planting is done at the same time, but, as a greater depth is required for most of the seed of the companion crops, two seeding operations are necessary. In Tennessee, farmers often use a mixture of 5 pounds of red clover and 10 pounds of crimson clover per acre with excellent results. The first growth of the mixture may be grazed or harvested for hay or for crimson clover seed, while the second crop is wholly red clover.