in. If no seed is wanted, the cattle can be allowed to 

 n over it the whole season; and if bees are kept, a 

 n^ney harvest will begin July 5th and continue until 

 frost. The bees work on the field like one great 

 swarm from early morning until late at night, and 

 every one who gets a taste of the sweet-clover honey 

 wants more of it. 



The white sweet clover should be cut for seed while 

 the stalk is still green; and after the crop is run 

 through the huller the hay will be superior to the 

 best timothy. It is best to work with the crop 

 when it is a little damp, to avoid shelling; and when 

 hauling, spread a canvas over the rack, and occa- 

 sionally empty this canvas over the middle of the 

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I am beginning to see that white sweet clover will 

 thrive well anywhere after the bacteria become fixed 

 in the soil, and it will bring up old wornout land 

 very quickly when once a stand is secured, as it 

 produces a great amount of humus, and gathers an 

 immense amount of nitrogen into the soil. In 1907 

 my sweet clover produced three bushels of seed per 

 acre where the cattle were taken off in the middle 

 of July. There would have been a better yield, per- 

 haps, if they had been taken off earlier; but by so 

 doing the young plants are sacrificed that are to 

 grow the seed for the next season. 



Maquoketa, Iowa. 



SWEET CLOVER FOE TOEAGE. 



My enthusiasm runs high over my experiments with 

 sweet clover and I will continue to work with it. The 

 photo shows thirty-five acres of it, which is six years 

 old and you can see that it is a fine field indeed. No 

 other legume could have been sown to hold out and 

 produce so large a quantity of very excellent feed. 

 It produces abundance of greed feed from the last 

 week in April until November, and the fore part of 

 winter if any is left. Looking north you can see 



Krenty rods over this field. 



Forty-one 1,200-pound steers had the run of over 



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