lEE-PAPER 



J*ub2isiie<i Weeli^ly, at ^1,00 per muium 



Sample Coi>y sent on J\.x>i>lioation, 



36th Year. 



CHICAaO, ILL., JAN. 30, 1896. 



No. 5. 





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Alslke Clover for Honey and Forage. 



BY FRANK COVKRDALK. 



I have, as usual, raised a fine field of this very valuable 

 crop. No crop pays me so well ia dollars as does Alsike 

 clover. It has never yet failed. I have secured a fair stand 

 at sowing during the past two dry seasons. From 35 acres, 

 115 bushels of fine, re-cleaned seed has been hulled, and the 

 hay, after being stacked, is equivalent to at least one ton of 

 extra hay for cattle (one ton per acre). Let us figure the 

 proceeds : 



115 bushels at .fiS per bushel, clear $575 00 



One ton choice hay per acre, at $6 per ton. . 210 00 



Total $785 00 



This is at very low figures. It is a little over .$22 per 

 acre, saying nothing about fall feed, or how much better the 



Alsike Clover. 



Crimson Clover. 



land is after it is taken off. Fifty bushels of corn per acre at 

 25 cents per bushel will net when sold .$12.50, and after 

 much more labor has been required to attend and harvest it — 

 a little over half the profit, and the land made poorer ! What 



a contrast ! Are these not facts ? Yes, they are facts at 

 home. I ask you to read carefully every word of this, 

 then put on your thinking cap, as Alsike is an excellent 

 honey-yielder. 



ALFALFA FOR HONEY AND FORAGE. 



Three acres of fine alfalfa grows about three miles south 

 of here. It has been there for three years, or cut two seasons. 



Mr. J. K. Darling, Almonte, Ont. — See page 



It is on top of hills and in a valley, and does well in both cases, 

 yielding more good hay than any other clover grown here — 

 three good cuttings in a single season, or one cutting for hay 

 and one for seed. Bees work on it some, but do not take to it 

 as well as to Alsike. I have some fine alfalfa, sown last 

 spring, which has made a good growth during the past very 

 dry summer. Drouth doesn't kill it at all, even when all 

 other clovers will die (except sweet clover). 



SWEET CLOVER FOR HONEY. 



Sweet clover is spreading rapidly here. It seems to 

 thrive anywhere wherever it drops its seed on the hardest of 

 ground, and on wet, low land, in school-yards, fence-corners, 

 or anywhere. I know of two places where it extends two 

 miles almost a solid mat on either side of the road, and one 

 school-house yard near nie has for years been an ocean of 

 bloom. Sometimes it is cut down, but it seems to sprout and 



