to the fence. There is a sprinkling of sweet clover 

 all along this edge of the field. What did the mis- 

 guided creature do but pick out and devour every 

 stalk of sweet clover within reach before she would 

 touch any of the alfalfa! Surely she ought to have 

 known better! Those who hold that sweet clover 

 is not a fit food for stock are invited to labor with 

 her and convince her of the error of her ways. 

 where it was unmolested. j. A. GREEN. 



Grand Junction, Col., June 1, 1906. 



SWEET CLOVER; ITS VALUE AS A FERTILIZER. 



I have about six acres of sweet clover, not as thick 

 as I wish, but I hope to see it better in the future, 

 and I cut the sweet clover along the road by my 

 place. 



There may be States in which sweet clover is 

 classed as a noxious weed, and so that it would be 

 unlawful to raise it, even on our own land. If this 

 is the case, it would not look well to advise raising 

 it there. I have found that sweet clover is worth 

 more for enriching the soil than it is for honey. 



I dug a few potatoes yesterday where there was 

 sweet clover last year, and found double the yield 

 out of the same number of hills on the same soil. 

 Where the sweet clover grew, there was no manure 

 last year; and where the sweet clover was not, I had 

 a coat of manure last season. Along the railroad 

 and highways sweet clover does not last more than 

 a few years. It will grow where no plant will, and 

 then other plants take its place. I have in mind a 

 spot where the soil was removed for an embankment 

 3 or 4 feet of top soil, some one sowed sweet clover 

 there, and after a few years of sweet clover other 

 grasses have taken its place. The sweet clover pro- 

 duces the humus to bring about the result, and this 

 spoils the soil for its own growth. 



A. CHAS. ARMSTRONG. 



Warner, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1907. 



Score another for sweet clover. The honey yield 

 was very light here in the fore part of the season; 

 but in August the sweet clover began to give down, 

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