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fall orspriug with wheat, like red clover, 

 or should it be sown separate ? 



H. P. 

 East Bethany, N. Y., Sept. 29. 



Mr. A. I. Root then gives this reply to 

 to H. P.'s questions : 



Sweet clover can be sown at almost 

 any season of the year, even late in the 

 fall. We are sure this late sowing is all 

 right; for where the railroad runs 

 through our grounds the clover comes 

 up every spring from self-sown seed 

 dropped from plants where it grew. It 

 is peculiar, and unlike any other plant 

 in its wonderful habit of growing rank 

 and strong on hard sub-soil, barren hill- 

 sides, such as railroad embankments, 

 gravel-pits along the highways, etc. In 

 regard to its value for reclaiming barren 

 soils, the Ohio Experiment Station made 

 a test by plowing under a heavy growth 

 of it before putting in wheat. Where 

 no sweet clover was turned under the 

 yield was about 18 bushels per acre ; 

 but on the ground fertilized by turning 

 under the sweet clover, the yield was 

 over 26 bushels per acre, and a corre- 

 sponding increase in the amount of 

 straw. One reason why it prepares the 

 land for other crops is because the great 

 roots going down to such a depth act 

 somewhat as underdraics. Its value for 

 cattle, horses, and other stock, has now 

 been fully settled ; but it must be cut or 

 pastured when the plants are small, say 

 a foot or two high. Of course, stock 

 will eat it after they have become accus- 

 tomed to it, when it is several feet high 

 and in bloom. But its great value is to 

 cut it before the buds show. The reason 

 it is found in certain places one year and 

 not the next is that it takes two years 

 to perfect blossoms and seed. The old 

 stalks will die, root and branch, after 

 having produced seed. This seed, 

 dropped on the ground, produces small 

 plants that must grow one year before 

 they in turn p "duce blossoms and seed. 



Some yea D. A. Jones, of Can- 



ada, suggested it in strips 10 or 



15 feet wide, s;» alternate strips 



alternate years, la this way the tall 

 plants will reach over the vacant strip 

 and almost meet overhead. Then, after 

 they die down, the young plants in the 

 other strips will in like manner reach 

 over, getting honey on the same ground 

 every year. Its value for stock is easily 

 shown by the fact that it is never found 

 where horses or cattle are pastured. It 

 makes its prodigious growth only along 

 railroad grounds and highways, where 

 stock is never turned out. I believe it 

 does not succeed very well sown on 

 wheat in the spring. In fact, I have 

 never seen a real success with it on rich 

 cultivated ground. If others have, I 

 wish they would report. 



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