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grow that really will fill in the summer six months with good 

 pasture for his cows. The answer is "y e »>" and that crop is 

 sweet clover. 



I have been studying sweet clover for the last 12 years; 

 have grown it on my farm, and have taken every opportun- 

 ity to visit dairy farms where it has been used as a pasture 

 crop, and make a study of it. Where they had a reason- 

 ably good stand, the results which I have seen have been in 

 practically every case all that could be desired from a pas- 

 ture crop. 



It furnishes an abundance of feed from April, through- 

 out the hot, dry months of summer, until November. The 

 cows eat it readily after they are accustomed to it, and it is 

 an excellent milk producer, besides keeping the stock in 

 excellent physical tone. 



In addition to being such an excellent feed for milk 

 production, it is a great land and labor saver. Sweet clover 

 requires, according to questionnaires answered by 81 dairy- 

 men, only about three-fourths of an acre of land to pasture 

 a cow, while under most conditions at least over two acres 

 of bluegrass are required. Due to its hardiness and ability 

 to withstand the drought, it requires very little supplement- 

 ing for cows of usual production, which fact eliminates the 

 necessity of the use of a great many supplementary feeds 

 with all the labor involved in growing, harvesting and feed- 

 ing them. 



Creates a Threefold Saving. 



So we see that the use of sweet clover pasture results in 

 a three-fold saving. It saves the cow's energy by permitting 

 her to gather all the fine feed she can consume, in the natur- 

 al way from pasture, with the minimum amount of grazing. 

 It saves land by permitting the same amount of feed to be 

 grown on one-third the area, and saves labor by eliminating 

 the work of raising and feeding the supplementary crops, 

 which is necessary if cows are to be kept up in milk flow, 

 when other less productive pastures are used. 



WILBER J. FRASER, 

 Prof, of Dairy Farming, University of Illinois. 



