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thirty bushels of seed which were readily taken, and later in the 
season the demand could not be supplied at any price. As a re- 
sult hundreds of acres of: land in this and in one or two neigh- 
boring counties, so worn and washed that it was almost worth- 
less, has been and is being brought back to a state of productive- 
ness and value. 
In regard to seed, there seems to be no established market as 
to prices or number of pounds per bushel. It is sold at all kinds 
of prices per bushel, the bushels ranging from 14 to 60 pounds 
per bushel. 
There is also a vast difference in the quality of the seed, as 
to how it is cleaned and handled, as it heats very readily even in 
small bulk, consequently there is much dead seed sold, which fact 
has discouraged many would-be growers. 
I recommend the sowing of unhulled seed as a cheaper seed 
as something else is often substituted for the hulled. 
It should be cut when the first blooms appear and handled 
much the same as other clovers, giving a little more sunshine, 
according to weight of crop. For hay I advise sowing the yellow 
blossom variety on hand where the machine can be run. More 
feed of fine quality can be had per acre from this plant than any 
grass I have ever seen. For improving land and for grazing I 
strongly advise using the white variety. I do not recommend 
sweet clover for low or wet land. 
We have recently purchased 200 acres more of the same class 
of land and will soon have this in the same present condition of 
the first 100 acres purchased. During the spring of the ex- 
tremely dry season of 1908 we broke for corn an old timothy 
meadow where patches of sweet clover had been started, and all 
during the season, after the corn had started, it was easy to see 
where the sweet clover had grown, and these spots were the only 
part of the field where we had any corn which was fairly good, 
and the rest of the field yielded only fodder of poor quality. 
Mr. James Thompson, an all-round business man and director 
of the Pendleton Bank at Falmouth, has purchased a few hun- 
dred acres of worn out land which he has seeded to sweet clover 
and is well pleased with the investment and says he knows of no 
other plant so valuable to those having worn out or washed land. 
Mr. J. S. Gardner, Kelat, Ky., stock buyer and _ shipper, 
says: “The fattest sheep and cattle I handle are those from 
sweet clover pastures.” 
Milch cows fed on sweet clover hay yield an abundance of 
milk from which is made nice yellow butter. Stock cattle, young 
horses and mules do well on the hay without grain. 
