MANURES AND HUMUS IN SOIL. 173 
Land is just as easily broken after a heavy crop of sweet 
clover as after common red, if plowed before the seed plants 
have made too much growth. Seedling plants do not interfere 
with wheat. The yearling plant is a little in the way of harvest- 
ing, but does not injure the crop, unless it should be very thick. 
It will grow just as well on the poorest stony washed limestone 
land ag on the best of soil. The land cannot be too dry and hot 
for it to succeed. It does prepare land for alfalfa by loosening, 
enriching and furnishing the necessary bacteria. It is a drouth 
resisting plant, and continues to grow through the dryest sum- 
mers, furnishing an abundance of grazing, while other grasses 
are parched, and remains green until quite hard freezing. Sweet 
clover is all right on good land, but it is the man with the worn 
land who needs it most. On dry land such a thing as an entire 
failure is out of the question if good seed is sown, no matter at 
what season of the year, but of course you may expect best re- 
sults from spring seeding where the seed is covered by any means 
convenient, or from early winter sowing, when nature will do 
the covering. When sown for hay I use one bushel of seed to 
four acres, for grazing or improving land one bushel will be suf- 
ficient for five or six acres. If sown late in the season and the 
weather is dry the seed will lay over to the next spring and 
come all right. Some of the best stands I have ever had were 
obtained from such conditions. 
Some of the statements made may seem a little extravagant to 
those not familiar with the plant, yet there is not a particle of 
exaggeration. Just imagine a growth from six to eight feet high 
and so thick a man can scarcely walk through it, being left on 
the land to enrich it and stop wash and to be followed without 
cost the next season with a growth of seed plants that will form 
a dense sod and grow to the height of two to three feet, and this 
process repeated year after year, and add to this the fact that 
this plant unquestionably attracts to the soil more than double 
the amount of nitrogen that red clover will under the most favor- 
able conditions. Can you then wonder that land is so rapidly im- 
proved?” 
In Wyoming—The Wyoming experiment station 
reports that lambs fed upon sweet clover hay relished 
it and throve. It was found that they digested it ex- 
ceedingly well, and that it contained a very large 
percentage of digestible protein. It is well known 
