GROWING LEGUMES IN DRY AREAS 339 



Harvesting for seed. But little information can be 

 given with reference to the growing of seed, as it is not 

 much grown. The plants, however, seed plentifully. It 

 may be harvested for seed about the same as alfalfa and 

 threshed in the same way. No figures can be given with 

 reference to the yields of hay or of seed that will be 

 of any special value. 



As a green manure. Sweet clover should furnish 

 vegetable matter to the soil by sowing it with grain in 

 the spring and by burying the plants the next season 

 when the land is to be summer-fallowed. When sown on 

 gumbo land the plants when buried should have a dis- 

 integrating effect on the hard soil. 



