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not be grown successfully. Five pounds of seed per acre 

 is sufficient to get a good stand where the soil conditions 

 are right, but a ton of seed to the acre will not produce a 

 stand if the soil is acid. 



Best Hand on the Farm. 



The sweet clover amendment to the Milk Per Acre dem- 

 lonstration is gladly accepted from more recent farm prac- 

 tice. Sweet clover is simply summer alfalfa, extending all 

 the advantages of alfalfa and ''then some'' through six 

 months of pasture. Like alfalfa, sweet clover is a legume 

 supplying a still greater quantity of protein and minerals 

 per acre. Everything that has been said for alfalfa may be 

 said for sweet clover, but that is not all. 



Good farm help is getting more and more difficult to 

 obtain and there is much labor in plowing and preparing 

 the ground, raising the corn crop, filling the silo, making 

 alfalfa hay, feeding these crops to cows, and hauling out 

 the manure. 



If every dairy farmer could find a friend who would 

 do all of this work on that half of the yearly crop which is 

 fed during the summer six months and, in addition, feed the 

 cows exceptionally well during the summer — do all this 

 work for nothing and board himself, and not reduce the 

 milk flow — every dairyman would think such a one a friend 

 indeed. 



The facts are that every dairyman — north, south, east, 

 or west — has such a friend ready to work for him, and this 

 friend is nothing more or less than what most farmers for 

 two generations have considered a troublesome weed — 

 sweet clover. 



Would Not Increase the Acreage. 



This is no mere sentiment or theory. The corn and al- 

 falfa acreage may be reduced as much or more than that 

 required for the sweet clover. Since it took 1.92 acres of 

 land to support a cow a year on the Milk Per Acre demon- 

 stration, it would take only .96 of an acre of corn silage and 



