of scab, no work of wire worms or grubs; and the 

 crop that we got was at the rate of at least 100 

 bushels per acre. From this experiment I infer that 

 sweet clover is not only worth as much to turn under 

 as any of the common clovers, but I should say even 

 more. GLEANINGS, Nov. 1, 1900. 



AN ESTIMATE OF ITS VALUE PER ACRE AS A HONEY-PLANT. 



Bees have done very poorly for me this season 

 on account of cold wet weather in June, losing a few 

 hives by actual starvation before I was really aware 

 of it; and if it had not been for a three-acre field 

 of white sweet clover I should have lost more as 

 this patch kept about fifty hives in fair condition. 

 In fact, they went far ahead of the out-apiaries. I 

 have sown this season five acres more, and next 

 spring I intend to put out about forty acres more, 

 as I can rent land for this purpose at $1.50 per 

 acre. I intend to put out mostly the yellow variety, 

 as it comes in just at a time when there is nothing 

 else, and the blooming-period is longer; but the three 

 acres of white, I am satisfied, was worth to me this 

 season $30.00, and I also have considerable seed 

 from it. R. L. SNODGRASS. 



Gordon, Kan., Oct. 2, 1903. 



SWEET CLOVER AT THE OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Below is the decision of the Ohio Experiment Sta- 

 tion, sent out in the form of a newspaper bulletin 

 in 1898: 



Many portions of Ohio have the roadsides and other sod- 

 den or "out of tilth" lands occupied by the white sweet- 

 clover plant (Melilotus alba, L.). Since it has been regard- 

 ed as a noxious weed the former Ohio Statute placed it in 

 the same list of proscribed plants with Canada thistle, com- 

 mon thistle, oxeye daisy, wild parsnip, wild carrot, teasel, 

 burdock, and cockle-burs. 



Under the operation of this statute, private lands might 

 be entered upon to destroy the melilotus growing for any 

 purpose, as for bee-pastures. The destruction of bee-pastures 

 in this manner actually occurred near Delaware. 



Rightly, then, it may be asked, "How shall we rank sweet 

 clover?" To answer this we must consider where sweet 

 clover grows and what is its character. Sweet clover grows 

 spontaneously along tramped roadsides, even to the wheel- 

 ruts in abandoned roadways, and in tramped or sodden land 

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