fall. I am not sowing sweet clover alone for bees, 

 but am sowing for both bees and stock; and I can 

 say from experience that they both do well on it. 

 After this I expect to sow my thinnest land to sweet 

 clover, as I believe it to be a great land-builder. 



There is one thing more that I wish to mention 

 about sweet clover. I fully believe that the bark 

 on second-year's sweet clover will make the best of 

 ropes. 



Velpen, Ind., Nov. 19. BY W. T. DAVI^ON. 



[The following, which tells how sweet clover be- 

 haves in Montour Co., Pa., from the American Agri- 

 culturist, is along the same line:] 



I have been reading several articles in American Agricul- 

 turist on the value of sweet clover, Melilotus alba. Some 

 writers say it is not eaten by stock. Others say it makes 

 good hay when cut and stored in layers between layers of 

 other hay. We have it growing in every by-place along the 

 roadside, on stone piles and in cultivated fields. It will 

 grow where no other plant can live. On poor, barren land 

 it grows 3 to 6 feet high. 



I selected one stalk having 13 branches measuring 4 to 8 

 feet long, grown from a single seed. The root of this stalk 

 was 3 feet 4 inches long with large nodules. It starts to 

 grow in the spring earlier than any of th^ other forage 

 plants. By April 10 to 15 it is from 4 to 8 inches high, 

 and eaten with relish by cattle and colts. Our cattle eat it 

 all summer ; but when allowed to grow it soon becomes 

 woody. The cattle then eat only the blossom ends of the 

 branches It is not easily cured for hay. It is very sappy ; 

 and, before it cures, the leaves all drop off, leaving only the 

 stem. 



I have a piece of sweet-corn and pumpkins growing now 

 in an old peach orchard. The ground was very poor, and for 

 three years it has been covered with sweet clover. I re- 

 moved the old stalks that grew the preceding year, and 

 plowed it May 16. The clover was then 15 inches high, 

 and three horses could scarcely turn it. It lay until June 

 21, when I marked and planted it. The sod rotted com- 

 pletely, and the corn proved the best I ever grew. 



M. S. BOND. 



Articles by Mr. and Mrs. Amos. 



INCREASING THE PASTURAGE BY SOWING 

 SWEET CLOVER. 



THE WHITE AND YELLOW VARIETIES. 



Last October there appeared in GLEANINGS an illus- 

 trated article by John Bodenschatz telling how much 



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