of the tender green plant and the cured hay. The 

 plant develops the bitter or acid flavor when about 

 half grown, or about the time to cut for hay. If, how- 

 ever, the sweet clover is mixed with other hay in feed- 

 ing the stock at first, they will soon develop a taste 

 for it, and will prefer it to other hay. 



There is quite an advantage in sowing sweet clover 

 with alfalfa, ten pounds of sweet clover and twenty 

 pounds of alfalfa. The stalks 01 the sweet clover hold 

 the alfalfa from falling, and the mixture makes a 

 splendid hay. J. W. GRIFFIN. 



FURTHER TESTIMONY. 



A few weeks ago, while taking a buggy-ride through 

 this county, my traveling companion pointed to a 

 lot of dry weed-stalks lining the roadside and said: 

 "I wish the highway superintendent would have those 

 cut when they ought to be cut. They are fhe worst 

 weeds we have." 



"Not so," said I. "but one of the most useful weeds 

 we have, and one holding much promise, but never a 

 pest." It was sweet or melilot clover which here, as 

 in many other sections, is found in great abundance 

 on roadsides, railroad embankments, and waste places. 

 It covers such spots with thrifty verdure, furnishes 

 bee pasture for many weeks, and, if we only knew 

 how to handle it just right, it would be serviceable 

 for other useful agricultural purposes. 



Years ago I called attention in these columns to 

 melilot clover as one of our most promising cover 

 crops and soil-renovators. It gives an astonishing 

 lot of green stuff in a surprisingly short time, and it 

 draws nitrogen from the atmosphere equal to vetch 

 and alfalfa. In its earlier stages, sweet clover closely 

 resembles alfalfa, and from the looks of both I should 

 think that there might not be much difference in the 

 taste. One of my cows, when tied out in a meadow, 

 ate the grass down well to the ground, but left the 

 alfalfa-plants untouched, just as another in another 

 patch left the sweet-clover plants, until the one be- 

 came used to the taste of alfalfa and learned to eat 

 sweet clover. I find my cattle will eat alfalfa and 



