and put on about 20 Ibs. of the unhulled seed, and 

 I got a fine stand. Enough will come up from the 

 seed again this spring to give me a good stand next 

 spring. R. L. SNODGRASS. 



Augusta, Kan., Feb 9, 1909. 



SWEET CLOVER AS A FOOD FOR STOCK. 



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Last week, seeing in the cornfield sweet clover 

 over two feet high in bloom I thought of a writer 

 who said it would not grow in cultivated fields. The 

 large plant which I send in a separate inclosure has 

 grown from seed which has germinated since July 29, 

 when the corn was last cultivated. I also send two 

 young plants which have grown from seed since our 

 first rain, Oct. 14. The whole field was plowed late 

 last spring, and that part which is now covered with 

 a dense growth of young clover, being above the irri- 

 gation line, was not planted. This part of the field 

 was free from clover last year, and the seed must 

 have lain dormant two years. I consider it a good 

 plow-under crop. Today I counted over 100 nodules 

 on one plant. This coming season I hope to save 

 enough seed to plant ten acres, and the following 

 spring plow it under for corn-planting. Last week I 

 gave some sweet clover to a pen of young fatting 

 hogs which had never eaten any. They were all very 

 fond of it. Some horses and cattle do not relish it 

 ht first, but, like human beings, have to acquire an 

 appetite for some foods. I well remember my first 

 attempt to eat an olive. Now you can scarcely feed 

 me too many. If you have a pet Jersey cow you 

 Wish to have love you, and give you a good quality 

 of rich milk, give her a good feed of sweet clover 

 at milking time; but too heavy feeding with it will 

 give the milk a peculiar flavor. 



Descanso, Cal., Dec. 5, 1908. E. P. ST. JOHN. 



SWEET CLOVER. 



, For several days I have been staking our cow out 

 in the alfalfa pasture in order to give her a little 

 green food. It would hardly be safe, you know, to let 

 her run loose and eat her fill. Yesterday I tied her 



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