growth before they began to feed on it, and below 

 the height mentioned it was too coarse and hard to 

 be palatable. Seldom now do we see it in pasture 

 fields; but on the roadsides adjoining these fields it 

 grows in abundance, and would undoubtedly grow in 

 the fields if the stock let it alone. When driving 

 lambs along the highway I Live noticed that they 

 eat it as readily as the grasses that grow with it, 

 blue grass, etc. Men owning horses in my nearest 

 village I have known to cut it from the roadsides and 

 haul it to their stables and feed it to their horses. 

 At first they refused it, but soon learned to relish it. 

 I know of a timothy meadow being cut this year 

 that had growing with it an equal bulk of sweet 

 clover. This was stored in sheds, and will be fed 

 out to cattle this winter. In the same field in which 

 this timothy grew last year, after wheat, there came 

 on five or six acres a very rank growth of sweet 

 clover. This year there grew a very excellent crop 

 01 corn on the same land. Alfalfa grows on all the 

 land about here without soil inoculation. But unless 

 the land is well drained, naturally or artificially, it 

 will winter-kill. As regards sweet clover, I would 

 gladly have more of it grow on my farm than the 

 SLOCK and cultivation will allow to grow. 



Ross Co., Ohio, Oct., 1907. JOHN M. JAMISON. 



SWEET CLOVER AS PASTURAGE. 



Though quite a lot of sweet clover grows here, at 

 present it is mostly along the roadsides, so that we 

 do not get much value out of it for pasture. However, 

 it is well known by the farmers here that when 

 stock are occasionally pastured on the roads they 

 greedily eat the sweet clover, even when quite large. 

 I do not think it will pay to make a pasture exclu- 

 sively of this clover, for it requires conditions quite 

 similar to those under which alfalfa will thrive. It 

 is a* biennial, dies, root and all, after ripening seed, 

 and, though the seed will live in or on the soil for 

 years, and grow under suitable conditions yet, because 

 if its biennial character, pasturing would certainly 



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