YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. 



I have demonstrated that yellow sweet clover is not 

 an annual, as some writers have claimed, but a bi- 

 ennial, the same as the white variety. I have now 

 a small plot of the yellow in my garden, which is 

 two feet in height, and will soon be in bloom. It 

 blooms from two to three weeks earlier than the 

 white, which is a desirable feature. It grows a finer 

 stalk, but not so tall as the white. My plot of the 

 yellow was all destroyed, except one root, in Feb., 

 1899, by the hard freeze; but whether it is less hardy 

 than the white I can not say at present. I can say 

 this, however, that it would be a difficult thing in 

 this locality to cnke the average farmer believe that 

 the white variety ever winter-kills. 



M. M. BALDBIDGE. 



St. Charles, 111., May 23, 1900. 



SWEET CLOVER IN TEXAS; IS IT A "BAD WEED" ON 

 THE FARM? 



I had about 30 acres or my larm in sweet clover 

 in 1898, and it paid me over $3.00 per acre, which is a 

 good rent for average land here. I have about 28 

 acres this year, and I would continue it on my farm 

 if it were not for my neighbors' bees, which get as 

 much honey as I do, or more. About the last days 

 of May, 1898, the bees were without stores, very little 

 brood, and quite weak; yet the crop of honey taken 

 that year paid me over $100, besides keeping it on 

 the table all the time for six or eight in family, and 

 tne principal part of the crop was from sweet clover. 

 It makes good pasture in early spring, and, if turned 

 under after blooming, it will tell on a wheat crop. 



Last summer, while breaking the clover land, I 

 fastened a piece of domestic cloth on and above my 

 disk plow, and caught quite a lot of the flying seed 

 while plowing. I have been sowing the seed all 

 around the fences on the farm. I prefer raising hon- 

 ey instead of weeds and bushes. J. H. RODERICK. 



Dodd City, Tex., Feb, 28, 1900. 

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