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to grow sweet clover in the place of weeds. Our fence rows would 

 be worth thousands of dollars if sweet clover grew where weeds of 

 no use whatever now disport themselves. Especially would the clover 



A luxuriant growth of sweet clover. 



be valuable where a nectar yield would be produced just at a time 

 when there was nothing else in bloom. 



It was once feared that sweet clover was a noxious weed that spread 

 rapidly and was hard to kill out of a field. This apprehension has 

 been proven to be baseless, since a single plowing will kill the clover, 

 and there is no danger of its spreading out of its bounds. It grows 

 well in the northeastern part of the State, where it has become abund- 

 ant in various places. It needs little attention in localities where the 



