f^ it they will sometimes keep it eaten so close that 



[will have no chance to hloom, though it is not 

 easily discouraged I have seen the ground quite 

 white with sweet-clover blossoms on plants not over 

 two inches high. 



Another way to get a crop of hay from sweet clover 

 without affecting the honey crop is to cut the clover 

 the first season, cutting it very late. I have never 

 tried this more than once, but the experiment was 

 very successful. A fair crop of very good hay was 

 the result, and the clover was not damaged at all, 

 I intended to try this on a larger scale, but my re- 

 moval here upset my plans. 



Some of the Utah bee-l?:eepers that I met at the 

 Denver convention told me that, in their part of the 

 State, sweet clover was extensively raised for hay. 

 I have also been told that in some of the Southern 

 States it is raised largely as a forage plant. It might 

 be a profitable thing to get some of these men to tell 

 us h©w it is done on a commercial scale. I am con- 

 vinced that there are still undeveloped possibilities 

 in sweet clover. J. A. Gbeei^. 



Grand Junction, Col., Nov. 26, 1899. 



HEAVIER TESTIMONY STILL IN REGARD TO SWEET CLOVER 

 AS A FORAGE PLANT. 



Mr. Root. — I have been reading in Gleanings for 

 and against sweet clover. Well, I have had a good 

 deal of experience with it myself, and consider it a 

 valuable plant as a forage for cattle and horses. If 

 cut and allowed to wilt, cows eat it readily and thrive 

 upon it, giving finely flavored milk and butter. Many 

 acres of it are grown here around the shores of Utah 

 Lake, upon land so heavily charged with mineral 

 (alkali) that other crops will not grow at all, just 

 for the purpose of reclaiming the land. After the 

 clover crop, good crops of grain will grow. In addi- 

 tion to the value of the tops, the roots are also (I con- 

 sider) more valuable, being one of the best root crops 

 ^Dwn for cattle. Why, cows are just crazy for them. 

 ^^ I found this out was, I plowed up a five-acre 

 piK^e of sweet-clover land in the fall of the year, seven 



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