SWEET CLOVER : GROWING THE CROP. 



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will consist of almost pure sweet clover, while the second and third 

 cuttings will be a mixture of those plants. A number of southern 

 farmers have had good success in seeding sweet clover on Bermuda- 

 grass sod. 



The Xew Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station has obtained 

 excellent results from a mixture of Dwarf Essex rape and sweet 

 clover, and also by the addition of soy beans to this mixture. It 

 was found that by seeding 6 pounds of rape and 10 pounds of sweet 

 clover per acre an abundance of nutritious pasturage was produced 

 and that pigs preferred this mixture to alfalfa. When soy beans 

 were added it was seeded at the rate of 1 bushel of soy beans, 6 pounds 

 of Dwarf Essex rape, and 18 pounds of sweet clover. The soy beans 



FIG. 11. A cornfield, showing the effect of fall and spring plowing in killing sweet 

 clover that had made but one year's growth. The portion of the field at the left 

 was plowed in the autumn, while that at the right was plowed the following spring, 

 after the plants had started growth. The corn is 4 inches high. 



were drilled by themselves, and the rape and sweet clover were mixed 

 and seeded with a press drill. Brood sows made a gain of from 

 three-fourths to 1 pound a day during- July on this mixture without 

 additional feed and gave unusual evidence of thrift and vigor. 



ERADICATION OF SWEET CLOVER. 



Some farmers hesitate to plant sweet clover on their farms for fear 

 they will have difficulty in eradicating it when the fields are planted 

 to other crops. The results obtained annually by hundreds of farm- 

 ers are sufficient proof that there is no foundation for such fear; in 

 fact, farmers are experiencing much difficulty in cutting the first crop 

 the second season so high that the plants will not be killed. The 



