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proper, I should like to make a motion, 

 as a member of this Association, that 

 we give him our sincere thanks for 

 coming here and giving- us this talk 

 tonight. 



Pres. Kannenberg — You have all 

 heard the motion, is there a second? 



Motion seconded and carried unani- 

 mously. 



Pres. Kannenberg — I would like to 

 hear something more about sweet 

 clover. We have an ordinance that it 

 has to be mowed off when it is less 

 than eight inches. (In Oak Park, 111.) 



Mr. Kindig — I do not want to in- 

 fringe upon Mr. Mosier's subject, but 

 I feel that the subject of inoculation 

 must be emphasized, in some localities. 

 I know that where I live inoculation is 

 the thing. 



It is absolutely necessary in order to 

 be really successful with sweet clover. 



The Professor spoke about the 

 method of inoculation and drying of 

 the soil, and it seems to me this re- 

 mark would be in order: That in the 

 drying of the soil it must not be laid 

 out in the glare of the hot sun or put 

 in the oven and baked dry. Those are 

 two things that will kill inoculation. 

 Some people have done that trick — 

 that is the reason I mentioned it here. 



Mr. Coppin — ^One thing I would sug- 

 gest: Sow the white sweet clover and 

 the yellow sweet clover along the road- 

 sides where they are death on mowing 

 It down; spread the two kinds in the 

 same place. The yellow will go to 

 bloom a few weeks earlier than the 

 white, so that, if they get after the 

 yellow to cut it down and destroy it, 

 they won't damage the white. The 

 white will soon commence to bloom 

 after they have cut down the yellow. 

 It will keep them busier to get rid of 

 the two kinds than it will the one. I 

 think that would be a good idea — sow 

 two kinds in the same place. 



Mr. Hawkins — I think you are going 

 a little hard on the fellow who cuts 

 sweet clover. 



I have a lot of railroad highways up 

 my way; the section man commences 

 to cut down the sweet clover when it 

 is a little past full bloom. All the 

 sweet clover is cut off after the first 

 yield; after the first rainfall the 

 branches will come up from those 

 stumps and will be loaded with white 

 blossoms, and I believe the second 

 blossoms yield almost two or three 



times the honey that the first blos- 

 soms do; at least that has been my 

 experience. 



Mr. Coppin — I notice thes generally 

 get after the sweet clover wnen it is in 

 full bloom. I have seen" roadways 

 where I just had room to drive through, 

 with the sweet clover in full bloom; 

 and if they cut that down and other 

 seed has been sown that will come up 

 later, it will keep them biisy. 



Mr. Bodenschatz — I believe in sow- 

 ing it mostly in the fall, and it will 

 grow better during the- spring. I 

 know that we got thei best stand 

 that way. One thing I do not 

 like about sweet clover: The cattle 

 eat it too close down for me in our 

 country, and keep it down pretty low. 

 In one way it keeps a continuous blos- 

 som; it is kept down so low by cutting 

 that the cattle eat seed and all. 



Mr. France — It seems to me there is 

 one thing lacking in Illinois. Illinois 

 wants to do as did Wisconsin: Take 

 sweet clover off the obnoxious list. 



Pres. Kannenberg — That is in Oak 

 Park that I had reference to; that only 

 belongs to the town of Oak Park. 



Mr. Mosier — Sweet clover is not 

 mentioned specifically in Illinois, I be- 

 lieve. Of course there is a law against 

 obnoxious weeds, but I do not think 

 that sweet clover is specifically men- 

 tioned. It is in Indiana. 



A member — The seeds that do not 

 germinate the first year, will they 

 germinate the second? 



Mr. Mosier— ^Part of them will germ- 

 inate the second year. 



Mr. Wheeler — I have tried that on 

 plats of ground and it won't show up 

 for two or three years. 



We have a patch of ground I have 

 worked on for eight or ten years. We 

 sowed sweet clover so thick on it, and 

 I am certain that seed eight years old 

 sprouted and grew; it must have kept 

 its vitality for that long time. 



Mr. Hawkins — I think Mr. France is 

 very correct in his idea that we should 

 get the legislature to take sweet clover 

 off the list of obnoxious weeds. It 

 seems to me a campaign of education 

 would be as good a thing as bee keep- 

 ers could do much in the line of boost- 

 ing sweet clover, to show its real value 

 for other purposes besides honey. In- 

 stead of throwing rocks and placing 

 barb wire, and one thing and another, 

 in the highway, as some one suggested, 



