SWEET CLOVER: GROWING THE CROP. 



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England, while in the eastern part of Scotland a small quantity is 

 considered valuable in hay on account of its agreeable odor. The 

 famous Cruyere cheese of Switzerland owes its flavor to yellow sweet 

 clover. In Germany it has given very good results when used as a 

 green manure, while in parts of Russian Poland and Austria-Hungary 

 it is grown as a green-manure, pasturage, and hay crop on poor soils. 

 This plant is used for forage and as a soil-improving crop in the 

 central provinces of India, while sour clover, commonly referred to 

 as Meluotus i>ari*lfora, is credited with furnishing 75 per cent of 

 the feed for the cattle of King Island. Tasmania, which produce 

 the best beef and butter sold on the Tasmania market. 



FIG. 6. Outline map of the United States, showing the localities where sweet clover 

 is grown for forage or for green manure. Each dot or circle indicates a county 

 where 50 acres or more is grown under cultivation. The solid dots represent white 

 or yellow sweet clover ; the circles represent annual yellow sweet clover. 



At the present time sweet clover is grown rather extensively as a 

 field crop in the limestone regions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Ken- 

 tucky, in northern Illinois, and throughout the western Xorth- 

 Central and Mountain States (fig. 6) ; in fact, it is grown as a culti- 

 vated crop to some extent in nearly every State in the Union. Com- 

 paratively little sweet-clover seed is sown in the Atlantic Coast 

 States, since there the soils are for the most part acid, and heavy ap- 

 plications of lime will be necessary before sweet clover can be grown 

 successfully. It is questionable whether this plant will ever be of 

 much importance in the South Atlantic States, as cowpeas. soy beans, 

 and crimson clover will make a fair growth on those soils in their 

 present condition. The acreage of sweet clover probably will increase 



