better still, plant with a press drill not more than an 

 inch or two deep. For hay it should stand thick and 

 line-stemmed, and be cut before it comes into full 

 bloom. The green hay is quite succulent, and needs 

 to be cured in small cocks, allowing it to get pretty 

 dry before stacking, and then use salt as indicated 

 above. Sweet clover is a biennial plant, and will all 

 die the second season if not allowed to seed itself, so 

 u need never become a bad or persistent weed. 



B. C. BUFFTJM. 



Several points regarding sweet clover have been 

 raised by interested readers. There is some doubt 

 regarding its blossoming habits. In the North it is a 

 biennial, seldom forming seed the first year. In Ken- 

 tucky and further southward, however, correspondents 

 tell us it will seed the first year with them, unless 

 cut twice. 



One farmer writes: "It does best on a soil contain- 

 ing a good deal of lime." Generally speaking, it 

 seems to grow on almost any soil not too boggy or too 

 sour. A writer in the Ohio Farmer has had different 

 experience, however. 



"It is rather more difficult to secure a stand and 

 crop of sweet clover than of alfalfa. As I have inti- 

 mated, it often comes of its own free will where it is 

 neither expected nor desired; but repeated efforts to 

 start it where it has been wanted have uniformly re- 

 sulted much less successfully than similar attempts 

 with alfalfa." 



That paragraph sounds a sensible warning to those 

 who are figuring on sweet clover to do too much. As 

 the writer further states, however, some of the un- 

 reliability of stand may be due to unreliable seed. 

 Sweet clover is hardly a standard market article as 

 yet. While most seed-houses carry it, many of them 

 have never found it worth while to catalog it, owing 

 to the slim demand. The plant has been so little 

 grown, commercially, that good seed is hard to get. 

 A germination test is well worth while before plant- 

 ing. 



We have a lot to learn about sweet clover. This 

 much is fairly certain now: It is a first-class soil 



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