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G L E A K I N G S IX BEE CULTURE 



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is needless to say the discovery caused quite a little 

 excitement and great enthusiasm for the annual. 

 We have formed an association to be known as the 

 "Alabama Annual White Sweet Clover Seed Grow- 

 ers' Association," to grow and market these seeds. 

 We expect to market a few this year, and to plant 

 a considerable acreage next year.' 



We feel that Prof. Hughes' visit among us has 

 been of inestimable value to us all, and only wish 

 he could come again. 



Newbern, Ala., Aug. 28, 1920. F. A. James. 



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10 FT. 6 IN. HIGH. 



The other day I cut one plant of that white 

 sweet clover that measured 10 ft. G in. — "some 

 clover" from one little seed. I planted some barley 

 alongside of it, that is a little over 1 foot high. 

 That white sweet clover is a wonderful plant. I 

 think it grows well on poor land. If it is cut be 

 fore it comes into bloom, it makes fine hay and 

 grows much higher and faster than alfalfa. It 

 is a good honey plant. The bees are working on 

 it constantly, and some of it is coming into bloom 

 all the time. 



From the seed you sent us, I have got some 

 sunflowers, one of which is 14 ft. high. If you 

 stand under the sunflower and look up, it appears 

 more like a small tree. Also, some of the yellow 

 corn is 12 ft. high. 



Locke, Calif., Aug. 16, 1920. O. J. Arfsten. 



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6 FT. S IN. IN 91 DAYS. 



I saw in Gleanings a notice of your Sweet 

 Clover gi-ovi'ing 6 ft. in 100 days. That is fine, 

 but I can beat it. I sowed a few seeds about June 

 1st and have plants now that are 6 ft. 8 in. tall 

 in 91 days (will be in full bloom in a few days). 

 Who can beat it? 



Lawn, W. Va., Aug. 30, 1920. N. E. Duncan. 



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THE NEW OLOVER IN CALIFORNIA. 



Last spring I purchased an ounce of the annual 

 sweet clover seed from the Henry Field Seed Co. 

 and planted it in five rows, ten rods long and 

 three and one-half feet apart; but it is hard to 

 tell where the rows are now. After looking at 

 the picture on page 495 I went down to my sweet 

 clover to make comparison, and found a great many 

 plants over seven feet high, and I think decidedly 

 more stocky ; this was planted about the first of 

 May, was irrigated and cultivated twice, and hoed 

 once. I am sorry now that I did not use three or 

 even jour times the amount of land for this amount 

 of seed, as it is entirely too thick to thrivp, de- 

 spite the fact that it looked as tho the lot of seed 

 was largely immature. I expect to plant about 

 five acres of this clover next spring. I have ■ 

 grown the Biennial sweet clover for several year, 

 about five acres each year, and have 100 stands 

 of bees. With best wishes to you and yours, 



Montague, Calif., Aug. 8, 1920. L. H. Calanie. 



THE NEW OLOVER IN 1TAI,V. 



I>ast fall I was lucky enough to secure from the 

 Henry Field Seed Co. two ounces of se«d of the 

 "annual white sweet clover." In January I ship- 

 ped the seed to my father in Italy, asking him to 

 pay it the best of his attention and care. Con- 

 fident that you would be glad to hear something 

 about the results my father has had from this 

 seed, I am going to translate ad literam for you 

 from his letter the following: 



"The annual white sweet clover, sown ou .\pril 

 1-5, is today (Jul\ 29) already all in bloom. In 

 spite of a stubborn drouth, of which nobody re 

 members the like, it has reached the height of one 

 meter and 50 centiuioters (5 feet). The bees rush 

 to it all day long, from moruiug tQ supset, a»4 X\<> 



one of the. farmers has the slightest idea of such 

 plant bearing millions of small white flowers. I'll 

 take the very best care in harvesting the seed." 



1 hope to be able to secure some more seed next 

 fall to send to my country, so getting interested 

 more persons in this very valuable plant, for which 

 the agricultural world is indebted to Prof. Hughes 

 as well as to you. 



289 E. 151st St., New York City, 

 Aug. 24, 1920. D. Barone. 



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THREE CLIPPINGS FROM DIFFERENT NUMBERS (IF 

 THE RURAL NEW YORKER. 

 The annual Sweet clover on our farm grew, b\- 

 .ictual measurement, SV^ inches during the seven 

 days ending August 7. This clover is not given 

 special care or fertilizing. It is on land of usual 

 good quality. We have never seen any legume 

 grow as this does, and we feel more and more con- 

 fident that our Northern farmers are to have in 

 this crop the most useful manurial plant ever in- 

 troduced. We do not speak of its value as a hay 

 or pasture plant, altho that will be great : but as a 

 crop for adding organic matter and nitrogen to tho 

 soil, and still permitting a money crop in the same 

 season, this annual Sweet clover is a wonder. 



During the seven days ending August 14 the 

 annual Sweet clover growing on our farm grew a 

 little over 11 in. It then stood 39 in. high, from 

 seed put in the ground .June 12. Perhaps you 

 think we are making too much of this plant. We 

 believe it is to prove the greatest manurial crop our 

 Northern gardeners and fruit growers have ever 

 known. Where Crimson clover will thrive this an- 

 nual Sweet clover may not prove as valuable, but 

 in most sections north of Philadelphia we regard 

 it as a great acquisition, sure to change methods 

 of farming and fertilizing in many sections. Here 

 is a newcomer capable of adding to an acre about 

 as much nitrogen as you can buy in 500 lbs. of 

 nitrate of soda during the working days of late 

 summer. We call anything capable of doing that 

 a friend in need, and we feel like passing his 

 name along to our friends. 



During the week ending August 21 our annual 

 Sweet clover reached a height of 45 inches — just 

 10 weeks after the seed was put in the ground. 

 Its growth is by no means finished. No; we have 

 not gone crazy over this clover. We never had a 

 saner idea of what a ne\v plant may do for us. and 

 we want all our readers to understand .somethin:;- 

 of its possibilities. As a manurial crop to follow 

 early potatoes or other garden crops, we think tills 

 clover will ijrove remarkable. With an acre of this 

 clover growing on good soil we should feel as if 

 some kind-hearted neighbor had decided to come 

 once a week and scatter a ton of manure over the 

 acre. We have good neighljors, but not one has 

 ever volunteered any such service. That kindly 

 act has been reserved for the Hon. .\. S. Clover. 

 We nominate him for the congress of nitrates. It 

 is reported that one canning company in the West 

 has paid $5 a pound for 20 bushels of this clover 

 seed. This reminds us lo caution readers about 

 buying this seed from irresponsible dealers. You 

 cannot distinguish the seed from that of the old 

 two-year clover; — Rural Neiv Yorlcer. 



"NEITHER SHORTER HOURS NOR BIGGER PAY." 

 " Of all the workers in the known world today, 

 these little toilers are going on as of yore, asking 

 no reduction of working hours nor higher pay, to 

 help increase, rather than diminish, the high cost of 

 living. They work cheerfully and contentedly in an 

 old nail keg, or any old disgraceful box that may be 

 offered them, or even in the hollow log tliat is fouTid 

 in man> forests." 



Our bee friends should keep in mind the above, 

 v'liiv!) "'e dip from the Eural New I'orler. 



