years ago, after the crops had been gathered and the 

 cattle turned into the fields. Imagine my surpr^ 

 on seeing them all gather upon this piece of plowy 

 land and eat those clover roots down. The cows al- 

 most doubled their flow of milk. This lasted for 

 weeks until the land was tramped so solid that they 

 could not get another root out of it, and the plowing, 

 I think, didn't do much good. In addition to these 

 values the plant is valuable as a fiber-producing plant. 

 A number of years ago, at one of our county fairs I 

 saw some fine towels made of the fiber of sweet clover. 

 They looked much like linen, and were very strong. 

 too much for sweet clover. I have no seed to sell. 



Elias Johnson. 

 Provo City, Utah, Feb. 17. 



SWEET CLOVEE IN DAKOTA. 



Mr. D. Danielson, of this vicinity, is a wide-awake 

 farmer and bee-keeper. He raises melilotus right 

 along, and cuts it when in bloom, for hay. He con- 

 siders it excellent food for horses, as well as a good 

 bee plant, and does not deem it a noxious weed in 

 this fertile soil. Mr. C. Jantz, of Marion, a farmer and 

 Dee-keeper, has been raising sweet clover for several 

 years. He tells me that he tried to get a stand in 

 his pasture, hoping the cows would leave enough so 

 as to reseed it; but they, instead, hunted it and kept 

 it cropped down close to the ground. He also says 

 that the milk and butter from sweet clover have a 

 most delicious flavor. 



I saw a patch of it at Mr Jantz's last summer that 

 was, without stretching it an inch, ten feet high. I 

 have tried to make it choke out unseemly patches of 

 sunflower and rag weed, but this, I think, it can't 

 Qo in this country. The great leaves of these plants 

 cover the ground so completely that nothing else can 

 come through. Though we have some nice fields of 

 alfalfa hereabouts, I fear it is a little dry for this 

 kind of clover; and I think that, when sweet clover 

 shall become better known, it will prove an excellent 

 plant for this region. S. J. HARMELiNGjfl* 



Marion, S. D., Dec. 27, 1899. f 



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