years ago, after the crops had been gathered and the 

 cattle turned into the fields. Imagine my surprise 

 on seeing them all gather upon this piece of plowed 

 land and eat those clover roots down. The cows al- 

 most doubled their flow of milk. This lasted for 

 weeks until the land was tramped so solid that they 

 could not get another root out of it, and the plowing, 

 I think, didn't do much good. In addition to these 

 values the plant is valuable as a fiber-producing plant. 

 A number of years ago, at one of our county fairs I 

 saw some fine towels made of the fiber of sweet clover. 

 They looked much like linen, and were very strong. 

 too much for sweet clover. I have no seed to sell. 



ELIAS JOHNSON. 

 Provo City, Utah, Feb. 17. 



SWEET CLOVER IN DAKOTA. 



Mr. D. Danielson, of this vicinity, is a wide-awake 

 farmer and bee-keeper. He raises melilotus right 

 along, and cuts it when in bloom, for hay. He con- 

 siders it excellent food for horses, as well as a good 

 bee plant, and does not deem it a noxious weed in 

 this fertile soil. Mr. C. Jantz, of Marion, a farmer and 

 Dee-keeper, has been raising sweet clover for several 

 years. He tells me that he tried to get a stand in 

 his pasture, hoping the cows would leave enough so 

 as to reseed it; but they, instead, hunted it and kept 

 it cropped down close to the ground. He also says 

 that the milk and butter from sweet clover have a 

 most delicious flavor. 



I saw a patch of it at Mr. Jantz's last summer that 

 was, without stretching it an inch, ten feet high. I 

 have tried to make it choke out unseemly patches of 

 sunflower and rag weed, but this, I think, it can't 

 ao in this country. The great leaves of these plants 

 cover the ground so completely that nothing else can 

 come through. Though we have some nice fields of 

 alfalfa hereabouts, I fear it is a little dry for this 

 kind of clover; and I think that, when sweet clover 

 shall become better known, it will prove an excellent 

 plant for this region. S. J. HARMELING. 



Marion, S. D., Dec. 27, 1899. 



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