THE VALUE OF SWEET CLOVER 



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a time the land will grow the better legume. All in 

 all, there is hardly a better legume than sweet clover, 

 and none that can fill its place. Withal, it has not fulfilled 



Sweet Clover, 



Boots of Red Clover showing: nodules. 



the hopes of its friends. It seems a capricious plant. 

 Growing luxuriantly on the roadsides or along railway 

 embankments, it becomes a sickly, insignificant thing 

 sown on cultivated fields. The truth is that sweet clover 



