with the exception of one crop each year, which is allowed 

 to grow up and seed to furnish plants for the next year's 

 crop. When grown in this manner sweet clover has proven 

 fairly satisfactory ; but it should never be grown for hog- 

 pasture where alfalfa does well. Any reliable seed-house 

 in Kansas or Oklahoma can furnish you sweet-clover seed. 



G. E. CALL. 



SWEET CLOVER; LET THE BEE-KEEPERS GET BUSY AND 

 SHOW THAT IT IS NOT A NOXIOUS WEED. 



I am feeding our horse on sweet-clover hay that, 

 witn permission of section foreman, I gathered off 

 from a railroad right-of-way week before last, after 

 the track men had cut it down several days before. 

 When I hauled it into the barn the horse would not 

 eat it; but after it lay in the barn a week he took 

 readily to it. I saved a quarter to half a ton and 

 wish I had saved more. I have saved sweet-clover 

 hay for years for horse. I think that if bee-keepers 

 would take more pains to use it as it is cut down 

 along the railroads and highways they would find it 

 well worth saving and sweet clover soon would be 

 more popular with the farmers. If bee-keepers would 

 experiment more in curing and using it more farmers 

 would be planting it. In one instance a former road- 

 master took lots of pains to dig up and destroy a 

 little of it along the street at the same time saying 

 lots against it. I circulated word among his neigh- 

 bors that I would give the first one ten dollars who 

 would show me an instance where it damaged a 

 farmer any and no one came after the money. The 

 plant is condemned through ignorance and through 

 tnoughtlessness. Considerable good but coarse hay is 

 left to waste that would save some one some money 

 as a feed for horses and cows. Every bee-keeper who 

 is a farmer can experiment. 



ED HAINES. 



Bedford, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1906. 



MOKE ABOUT SWEET CLOVER; ITS VALUE TO FARMERS, ETC. 



About 20 years ago I became interested in bees 

 through an advertisement of A. I. Root in the Farm 

 Journal. I got the A B C of Bee Culture, and that 



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