and since then some localities have secured a very 

 good crop, a few a really exceptional crop of nice 

 honey from that source. At this date, Sept. 13, the 

 flow still continues good. 



Dr. Miller is right in saying that sweet clover is 

 not a desirable lawn grass, and the editor is probably 

 right in the belief that it could hardly get started on 

 a lawn that was properly cared for. It is re- 

 markable, though, what a dwarf can be made of the 

 plant by close pruning. I have seen places where 

 the roadside cattle had kept it closely nipped, where 

 the ground was covered with a close mat of it not 

 over two or three inches high, yet blooming pro- 

 fusely. A lawn of it kept in that condition would be 

 really pretty. But one would hardly recognize it as 

 a relation of the six or eight foot stuff that grew 

 where it was unmolested. j. A. GREEN. 



Grand Junction, Colo., Oct. 15, '06. 



THE EXPERIENCE OF A FARMER WHO GROWS IT FOR HIS 



STOCK; HIS CATTLE WILL TAKE IT IN PREFERENCE 



TO OTHER CLOVERS. 



It is a common thing to hear people say that noth- 

 ing will eat sweet clover. Such people are either 

 drawing on their imagination or their experience is 

 limited. Now, I do not say that stock will eat sweet 

 clover when there is plenty of grass, but my calves 

 did that very thing this summer, and kept it eaten 

 down all fall. To try sweet clover further as a 

 forage-plant I turned my calves into a ten-acre 

 field of sweet clover with two acres of English clover 

 on one side of the field. I fully believe they liked 

 the sweet clover as well as the English. 



There is no use for any one to say that nothing 

 will eat sweet clover, for I have seen my calves 

 eating it; and when I turned them into that ten- 

 acre field they quit coming up for their feed. It is 

 now Nov. 19. My sweet clover is still green, and we 

 have had freezing weather here. The ground had 

 been frozen hard. 



There are three times in a year when sweet clover 

 is a good forage-plant^-early spring, before grass 

 comes on; midsummer after grass dries up, and late 



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