SWEET CLOVER BUTTER, ETC. 



I have fed sweet clover and sweet clover hay at 

 various times and for various periods during the past 

 ten years or more, and I never noticed any injurious 

 effects from it whatever. In fact, at one time when 

 we fed our three Jerseys for several weeks on nothing 

 but sweet-clover hay and bran, we decided, according 

 to my recollection, that it made a little nicer butter 

 than anything else. At any rate, private customers 

 gladly took it at the highest market price. The idea 

 of adding it to other varieties of hay is doubtless 

 good; but it should be done at the time the hay is 

 made and stacked away. I wish some of those who 

 are skeptical about the value of sweet-clover hay 

 could have watched my horses several weeks ago. 

 We had cut a small quantity of sweet clover for hay, 

 and put it into the barn alongside of the old alfalfa 

 hay in which the horses had been living all winter. 

 A few days later the young man who had been doing 

 the feeding came to me and said: "That sweet clover 

 makes fine hay. The horses like it better than 

 alfalfa. I have been trying to get them to use up the 

 old nay by mixing the new hay with it, but they will 

 hunt out every bit of the sweet clover before they 

 will eat any of the old hay." 



J. A. GREEN. 



Boulder, Col., July 15, 1907. 



SWEET CLOVER; THE RESULTS OF SOME EXPERIMENTS IN 

 GROWING IT ON LOOSE AND HARD SOIL. 



I noticed on p. 1048, of last year, that some one 

 thinks sweet clover will grow on cultivated ground 

 the same as anywhere else. Last spring I purchased 

 75 Ibs. of white unhulled sweet-clover seed, prepared 

 my ground (about five acres) and sowed early in 

 spring. It came up nicely, and it seemed as if there 

 would be a fine stand; but as the summer went by, 

 the clover gradually disappeared; and by fall there 

 was scarcely a stalk to be found. I think that, on 

 account of the ground being loose, it perished; for 

 during the time there was very little rain. 



During a very wet spring and summer it might 



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