I am getting now, August may be a good time to 

 sow it, at once after taking of a crop of early grain, 

 by plowing the ground, get in good shape and sow. 

 I got the best stand this way. If I was sowing in 

 spring would sow without a nurse crop and turn on 

 cattle when the clover gets five or six inches high 

 as tramping the ground suits it. 



To try to grow this clover for hay alone would 

 be unsuitable as it grows too early and too coarse 

 and gets big enough for hay in May, and can't be 

 cured at this time. So it must be eaten off by 

 stock until haying weather arrives, and then it 

 grows hay of fine quality, and must always be mown 

 about five inches from the ground and managed so 

 as to let it seed some if one wishes to keep the stand, 

 as it is strictly a biennial. 



The sweet clover field always affords abundance 

 of fall and spring feed when once established. I like 

 to cut for seed when the seed is a little on the green 

 side, and the straw is better hay than timothy after 

 being hulled. However, I don't consider it anything 

 near as nice to handle for hay as alfalfa, but the 

 hay is just as good. I consider sweet clover espe- 

 cially adapted for grazing and it never bloats a steer. 

 The cattle fill to the highest pitch on sweet clover, 

 but never bloat, a thing of considerable value to me. 



When once got on poor land it builds it up very 

 fast in both humus and nitrogen. It usually runs 

 around 22 per cent in protein, and any man who suc- 

 ceeds in getting a good stand will be amply repaid 

 for his trouble. F. COVERDALE, JACKSON COUNTY, 

 IOWA, IN SUCCESSFUL FARMING. 



SWEET CLOVER COMING TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE AGRI- 

 CULTURAL PAPERS. 



I am making considerable headway with sweet clo- 

 ver in my State. One year ago no farm journal 

 would tolerate the idea of advocating the sowing of 

 melilotus alba; but now, if you read Wallace's Farmer 

 you will notice that they advise farmers to sow it 

 under certain conditions, saying it should be taken 

 on trial by all farmers. It begins to look now as 



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