FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



four tons of ground limestone per acre. 

 One of the best ways to start alfalfa on 

 poor land is to lime heavily and sow 

 biennial white sweet clover in the spring. 

 The ne.xt year this crop is plowed under 

 when four feet high. The land is fitted 

 and alfalfa sown by August fiist. 



Sweet Clover for Pasture 



By means of diagrams, Prof. Fra.^er 

 showed that it took from four to thirty 

 acres of blue grass, depending on the sea- 

 son, to support a cow. He stated that 

 from what he had seen of our pastures 

 we would either have to improve them or 

 else breed cows with muzzles two feet 

 wide capable of cutting a swath eighteen 

 miles long every day if we expected to 

 have the cow support herself and make 

 milk. Pictures of cows on sweet clover 

 pasture were shown. A good sweet clo- 

 ver pasture will carry one cow per acre. 

 It will produce enough feed so that a 

 cow will not need any grain till .she pro- 

 duces over thirty pounds of milk per day. 

 On sweet clover pasture, cows fill their 

 rumens in from 30 to 40 minutes and then 

 lie down to chew their cuds. One man 

 who noticed this asked if the sweet clover 

 contained any narcotic which made the 

 cows lazy. 



There is practically no danger from 

 bloat on sweet clover pasture if the cows 

 are turned out full of the feed to which 

 they are accustomed. The first time they 

 are put on the sweet clover they should 

 be kept in the barn till ten o'clock or till 

 the dew is off. The second precaution is 

 to have a stack of timothy hay or straw 

 near the sweet clover pasture. The third 

 step is to keep the cows on the sweet clo- 

 ver day and night once they have been 

 turned into the sweet clover. The last 

 step is never to feed after the sweet clo- 

 ver is frosted. 



How to Qrow Sweet Clo\er 



Sweet clover is adapted to a wide range 

 of soils. The one requirement is that the 

 land be limed heavily. In Southern 

 Illinois it takes about four tons of lime 

 per acre. This is put on the land in the 

 fall. In the spring, from fifteen to 

 twenty pounds of the biennial white 

 sweet clover is sown in oats. The sweet 

 clover has to be inoculated the same as 

 alfalfa. When the sweet clover is fifteen 

 inches high the cows are turned in. The 

 first year the sweet clover should be al- 

 lowed to have twelve inches of top when 

 winter comes, otherwise it will winter- 

 kill. 



The second spring from ten to twenty 

 pounds more seed should be sown and 

 harrowed in as early in the spring as 

 possible. The sweet clover plant only 

 lives two years but by following this 

 method and by allowing the two year old 

 plants to make seed in the fall pieces have 

 been kept in sweet clover for seven years 

 and are still good. 



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