SWEET CLOVER : HARVESTING AXD THRASHING SEED CROP. 



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SWEET-CLOVER STRAW. 



Sweet-clover straw may be utilized for soil improvement or as a 

 roughage for stock. When it is not needed for feeding it should be 

 turned under, as it will add much humus and nitrogen to the soil. 

 When the seed is nailed from the plants the straw may be easily and 

 quickly spread over the land at the time of nailing, but when the 

 crop is thrashed with a gram separator or a clover huller it will be 

 necessary to haul the straw and scatter it over the field. When the 

 crop is thrashed hi this manner the straw will be broken and crushed 

 so that stock will eat it freely. The straw may be run directly from 

 the thrashing machine into the silo, where, by adding sufficient 

 water, it can be made into good silage. Table I gives the analyses 

 of nine samples of sweet-clover straw which were collected in Illinois 

 in the fall of 1916. 



TABLE I. Analyses of sweet-clover straw. 1 



These analyses were made by the Bureau of Chemistry. 



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