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Mr. Foster told me several months ago that the net income on 

 the investment had averaged close to lo'/o annually, counting poor 

 seasons and all. He had been interested in Church and Sunday 

 School since bovhood. and was a member oi the official board of the 

 First ^Methodist Episcopal Church, of Boulder, Colo., at the time of 

 his death. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Faith and Ruth, who 

 live at Boulder. 



A Bee-Keeper Tells the Farmers Something About 



Sweet Clover. 



(An Article Written for the "Duroc Bulletin.") 

 By HENRY STEWART, Prophetstown, 111. 



ADVANTAGES OF SWEET CLOVER AS A FORAGE CROP.— PERM ANENT 



PASTURE.— THE STUBS, NOT THE CROWNS, SEND OUT 



NEW GROWTH.— GOOD FEED FOR HOGS. 



One of the nelds which has been undeveloped by the bee-keeper is the 

 informing of the public through the Farm Press concerning crops of interest to 

 bee-keepers. We are pleased to submit to you the following article by one of 

 our members which was printed in a farm paper in Illinois. This member was 

 not talking to bee-keepers but to farmers, and he gives some valuable information 

 concerning the growing of sweet clover. As you know, sweet clover is consid- 

 ered a weed by a large number of farmers, and bee-keepers have been condemned 

 in many cases for sowing its seed along the roadside. If we can show them the 

 benefit of the plant to them, it will result in mutual benefit. The best way to 

 reach them is through the farm papers, for every farmer depends, to a certain 

 extent, upon his farm publication, and it gives your statement weight to appear 

 in such a publication. 



Another field that is open is the explaining to farmers matters concerning 

 the disease known as foul brood. These articles are much appreciated by the 

 papers themselves, and I would urge the Secretaries of our Branches to try and 

 get some one in his state to be a regular contributor to the leading farm paper 

 of that state. Each year a dififerent man can be selected thus giving new ideas 

 and not making the contribution a burden. 



' ■ W A\'AS much interested in the article from the Iowa Experiment 

 ^ Station on sweet clover for hog pasture. T have been growing 

 this plant for ten years and know of no forage plant that will 

 equal it for any kind of live stock. During the early spring, and 

 in times of severe drought, such as we have had the last two years, 

 sweet clover afifords abundant pastiu'e when everything else has 

 either not yet started, or is dried up and quit business. 



When once deeply rooted there appears to be no drought severe 

 enough to check the growth of sweet clover. Like alfalfa, sweet 

 clover sends its roots deep into the moist subsoil, and is independent 

 of surface moisture for its growth. The experiment station seemed 

 to have fallen down on its second year's results. I can see two 

 good and sufficient reasons for this. Sweet clover is a biennial — 

 the second year it produces its seed and dies. For a permanent 

 pasture during the winter or early spring, it should be reseeded. 



