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said, they eat it readily and thrive on it. It also yields large quantities 

 •of honey of a fine quality and for tbat reason is prized by bee keepers. 



Sweet clover is a deep rooted plant and carries the same bacteria 

 that alfalfa does, therefore it will inoculate the soil for alfalfa. By 

 getting it started in old fields or waste land it will occupy it for years as 

 it will reseed itself and bring it up to a state of high fertility. The 

 seed should be sowed in late summer or early spring. The disking of 

 the land is usually a better preparation than to give it a thorough and 

 deep plowing. Twenty-five to thirty pounds of seed are required to 

 seed an acre. 



In sowing sweet clover, like any of the otber clovers, it is well to 

 inoculate the soil, which in North Carolina can best be done with the 

 pure culture method. Once a person has sweet clover growing, he can 

 use soil from that particular spot of land to inoculate other fields where 

 he intends sowing. 



Fig. 22. — Hogs pasturing on sweet clover in Iowa in late October. 

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Sweet clover is recommended for pasturing all kinds of live stock, but 

 it is letter to turn them on it while the clover is young and before it 

 has acquired the very bitter taste that it has after it has become older. 

 By the time it is grown they will have acquired a taste for it and will 

 eat it readily. 



For a full treatise on this plant get Farmers Bulletin No. 485 from 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Lespedeza or Japan CloTer. 



Japan clover (Lespedeza striata) is said to be a native of eastern 

 Asia, probally Japan, as its name indicates. So far as I know it was 

 introduced into this State during or right after the Civil War. Many 



