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The nin(^ chicks and their Rhode Island Ked mother just before 1 put them in the las-ket for their h]n;;- 

 trip north. 



arranged so the whole nine could crowd into 

 the sleeping-room when they were too cold. 

 But sliould the Aveather be warm they could 

 stay outside with nothing but poultry-net- 

 ting overhead. The feed and water were 



in this outside apartment or "dining-room." 

 The fact that they are still all alive, and 

 spry as crickets, seems to indicate that they 

 are at least a hardy strain of White l.^eg- 

 horns. 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 



SWEET CLOVER DOING MLSSIONARY WORK. 



I think something has already been made 

 mention of in our columns in regard to 

 transforming the worthless hills of Kentucky 

 into " a land flowing with milk and honey." 

 Here is some further evidence in regard to 

 it which I clip from the National Stockman 

 and Farmer: 



A PLANT IN PLACE. 



Those who live on rich land and emit occasional 

 sarcasms about .sweet clover should take a little 

 trip to Pendleton County, Kentucky. Twenty years 

 ago that county was in a bad way. The land was 

 badly eroded and gullied. Land was cheap because 

 it produced little. Then somebody started sweet 

 clover, a plant with a mission on barren land if not 

 elsewhere. Today the hills are productive, the gul- 

 lies are gone or at least are out of sight. Sweet 

 clover and alfalfa, which followed it, are the foun- 

 dation of a big dairy industry and a considerable 

 business in seeds and honey. Trying to produce the 

 wrong things — grain and tobacco — almost ruined 

 Pendleton County. A plant which is called a weed 

 and may be a weed in some parts of the country has 

 redeemed it. There are communities here and there 

 in this broad land which would profit by .sending a 

 delegation to Pendleton to absorb some facts and 

 shuck off some prejudices. 



There is just one thing in the above that 

 I am not ready to subscribe to. Altho the 



writer does not say so, there is an implica- 

 tion that sweet clover may be a weed in 

 some parts of the country. Somebody ha? 

 said — I do not know who — that not one of 

 the legumes can ever be called a weed any- 

 where or under any circumstances. Tf 

 sweet clover should 'happen to get in some- 

 where where it is not wanted, just cut it 

 and feed it to the stock, and the stubble that 

 is left has already done valui^ble work in 

 improving the soil so you can grow alfalfa 

 or almost anything else. Notice wh.it is 

 said on next page about growing nice pota- 

 toes on our sterile clay soil on a railroad 

 embankment after sweet clover had made it 

 possible. 



SWEET CLOVER AND ALFALFA. 



Prof. Bowers, of the Iowa State Experi- 

 ment Station, compares the two clovers as 

 follows, which we clip from the Kural New- 

 Yorker : 



SWEET CLOVER fOMPARED WITH ALFALFA. 



Sweet clover and alfalfa are very similar plants 

 when young, and at this time they are difficult to 

 determine from each other unless one is familiar 

 with their distinguishing characteristics. Sweet 

 clover is bitter to the taste, while alfalfa is not ; the 



