lands as sweet clover. I should not be surprised i| 

 it were worth millions of dollars to railroad eoiM 

 panies to prevent the washing away of embankments, 

 for that is where it does best, on hard yellow clay or 

 other soil where nothing else can grow and take root. 



There are big dumps near Cleveland where refuse, 

 cinders, and slag of ^very sort are thrown; but I 

 have noticed how sweet clover seems to find its way 

 along the edges of these dumps, and it seems to be 

 creeping all over, making the waste land productive 

 of at least some good. A. I. Root. 



September, 1903. 



SHEEP EATING SWEET CLOVER. 



I see in last Gleanings that Mr. Sawyer is giving 

 you a pretty hard going-over about sweet clover. Tell 

 him we have had it growing in our place for 16 or 18 

 years, and it only Just about keeps going, and we 

 have favored it to keep it growing, in black prairie 

 soil at that. If Mr. Sawyer will spend his 150.00 in a 

 small flock of sheep, and let them tend his sweet 

 clover, I do not think it will hurt his land or the 

 sheep either. Ours eat it greedily. 



H. C. Seaes. 



Thornburg, Iowa, Dec. 8, 1899. 



IS sweet clover a noxious weed? 



Mr. William StoUey, of Nebraska, gives a remark- 

 auiy interesting talk on sweet clover — how to raise it, 

 use it, and control its growth. Among many good 

 points he makes, I note the following: "In Nebraska 

 it will furnish most excellent bee-pasture up to the 

 time when frost kills all vegetation, and sweet clover 

 is the very last to succumb. For early spring pas- 

 turing of cattle, particularly milch cows, there is 

 nothing better than sweet clover." "It runs out all 

 noxious weeds, perfumes the air, and feeds the bees.*' 

 "A public road, well and evenly seeded with melilot, 

 but the growth of it properly checked at the proper 

 time, is a thing of great beauty, and there is nothing 

 bad about it, but, instead, it furnishes a bee-ran 

 hard to beat." 



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