class sweet clover as a "weed" to sit up and take 

 notice. Please note carefully what he says.] 



Alfalfa has an altitude limit which interferes with its 

 cultivation in some places, as it does not succeed well above 

 6000 feet ; but alfalfa has a fm t cousin known all over the 

 United States by the name of sweet clover, and these high- 

 altitude farmers have found out that sweet clover doesn't 

 discriminate between different altitudes. One man declared 

 that sweet clover will grow way up to the timber-line and it 

 will make good feed too, if properly managed. 



Sweet clover gets very woody when old, but these men 

 pasture it down, and when it gets the start on the hogs 

 they put the mowing machines on with the finger-board 

 tilted up and cut it back to three or four inches high. This 

 gives it a fresh start, and the pigs fatten on the young and 

 tender growth. The San Luis Valley seems to have taken 

 the lead in lamb feeding. Seven years ago an experiment 

 was tried in feeding 600 ; the experiment was successful, 

 and the next year about 1200 were fed. These were in- 

 creased the third year to 12,000, and every year there- 

 after until 1905, when the number was estimated at 540,- 

 000 ; but this proved too many, at least the market at that 

 time was not sufficient to absorb such a great quantity at 

 paying prices and some of the feeders who didn't understand 

 the business made a failure of it. The past season about 

 320,000 were fed and marketed with success. 



The combination of alfalfa or sweet clover with peas 

 works well with breeding hogs, because the little pigs, as 

 soon as they are able to eat, get the kind of feed that is 

 best for them. 



SWEET CLOVER FOR PIGS MORE ABOUT IT. 



We clip the following from the Kansas Farmer of 

 August 22, 1907: 



I should like information on sweet clover. Will it do 

 well if sown in September in Oklahoma? Where can I get 

 the seed? My land will not raise alfalfa, and I desire to 

 get a good plant for hog pasture. WM. QUEEN. 



Woodward Co., Oklahoma. 



Sweet clover can be sown in the same manner as alfalfa, 

 about the last week in August or the first week in Septem- 

 ber, and the seed-bed should be prepared as you would pre- 

 pare a seed-bed for alfalfa, by thoroughly disking wheat 

 or oats ground which is comparatively free from weeds. 

 The disking should be done as soon after Harvest as possi- 

 ble, and the land disked or harrowed at frequent intervals, 

 or after each rain, to conserve soil moisture and to prepare 

 a mellow, firm seed-bed. 



Many farmers who have not been successful with alfalfa 

 have grown sweet clover for hog pasture, keeping the clover 

 clipped off so that it does not become hard and woody, 



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