162 ARID AGRICULTURE. 



Sweet clover is one of the best honey plants 

 known. 



Its general appearance on a place and its 

 values, as indicated, makes sweet clover better as 

 a weed, filling up the waste places, than Russian 

 Thistle, cow weed or a host of more pernicious 

 and worthless plants. 



MAKING Sweet clover should be planted thick. Use 



SWEET twenty-five or thirty pounds of seed per acre if 



CLOVER HAY 



planted for hay. It must be cut when young, 

 before the plants get coarse and woody. The 

 green plants are full of juice and the hay must 

 be cured in the wind-row or in small cocks. It 

 should be allowed to get quite dry before putting 

 it in the stack. When stacked, sprinkle in the 

 hay five to eight pounds of salt to each load, then 

 let the hay stand in the stack two years before 

 feeding it. This method of curing hay two years 

 is little used in the United States, but it is a 

 common practice in England to pay a premium 

 for horse hay which is two years old. Sweet 

 clover hay is both strong in flavor and richer in 

 protein than any other plant we have grown. 

 Chemical analyses in Wyoming showed eighteen 

 per cent, of protein. This indicates that the hay 

 is very rich. On account of this richness it must 

 be fed with care in order to make stock eat it 

 successfully. If fed too much, animals will as 

 quickly lose their appetite for it as they would 

 if overfed with grain or other rich food. 



