Septkmber, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN B E R C U E TURK 



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learned tliat its native iiome was in Alabama, which 

 he soon visited. To make a long story short, the Ala- 

 bama Hubam Clover Association was formed at New- 

 bern, with Prof. H. G. Hughes as the Agricultural Ad- 

 viser. This organization has now 1,200 acres growing 

 Hubani clover seed. In spite of the floods in the 

 spring, during which the young plants were submerged 

 under water, and in sjiite of the drouth of nine weeks, 

 this new Hubam clover has grown and flourished. Some 

 of the members of the association have actually se- 

 cured as high as .'f!990 per acre in seed alone. 



There are about 500 acres more at De Graff, Ohio; 

 an e(|ual acreage in Texas, Michigan, and North Da- 

 kota. While the seed has been selling for $10.00 a 

 pound it can now be had for $2.50. The demand for 

 it is so great that it will doubtless hold this figure for 

 the rest of the year. 



The peoi)le in this Black Belt are, of course, just 

 discovering that they have a gold mine at present 

 prices. There is something like three-fourths of a 

 million acres of this land, much of it undeveloped; but 

 the most profitable crop grown on it now is, without 

 question, the new annual sweet clover. While I was 

 at Newbern the clover was being cut with an ordinary 

 grain-binder, and the seed was being gathered. 



After the seed has been taken from the jflants, and 

 even tho the plants looked dry and brown, they make 

 splendid fodder and silage. According to Prof. Bishop, 

 one of the extension men in Alabama, who has had a 



1 2 :; 4 



Coiiitfsy Alabaiuii Huliam Clover Associutidii. 



NoK. I and 2 — Hubani and ths annual yellow sweet ilover 

 jdanteil the same day, cultivated and raised in the same row and 

 under identical conditions. Nos. 3 and 4 — Hubam and the old 

 biennial sweet clover planted the same day, cultivated and raised 

 in the same row and under identical conditions. 



Prof. P. C. Bishop, formerly Field 

 Exten.sion Anent of Illinois and now 

 of Alabama, making the statement 

 that it had been discovered that 

 white sweet clover (biennial or an- 

 nual), has move of actual protein 

 or food value than alfalfa. He e.x- 

 ))lained also how sweet clover was 

 1 eing grown more and more iu 

 Illinois. 



wide experience with the old 

 biennial sweet clover in Illi- 

 nois, there is more actual pro- 

 tein in sweet clover than in 

 alfalfa. 



At tiie outset I said tliat 

 fact is strangi'r than fictifni. 

 Now for the "facts." 



This annual sweet clover 

 will develop as much fodder 

 or humus in three months as 

 its near relative, the old bien- 

 nial sweet clover, will in 21 

 months. In a given time, side 

 by side in the same soil, tests 

 made at the Ames College, in 

 Iowa, showed thit Hubam 

 would produce by weight six 

 times as much as the medium 

 red clover; five times as much 

 as the biennial yellow, and 

 three times that of the bien- 

 nial white. It has yielded 

 slightly h e t t e r than .".OOO 

 pounds of water-free material 

 per acre. 



As to honey, the Hubam 

 clover will yield in quantity 

 and quality as much as its 

 near relative, the white bien- 

 nial sweet clover. This is 



