Our horses eat the -sweet clover haj^ with the same 

 Iftreed and relish as did the cattle. The hired help 



e had taking care of the stock said he thought 

 sweet clover was unfit for stock; hut he knows dif 

 ferent now, and is trying to procure some seed to 

 sow on his farm. Mr. Thompson, of the Allerton & 

 Thompson ranch, adjoining my ranch, is growing 

 tame grasses and clovers very successfully on their 

 50,000-acre ranch here. They have considerable sweet 

 clover also, and will put out considerable more this 

 coming year, as they consider it a very valuable 

 clover. 



After having had five years' experience with it in 

 Wheeler and Garfield counties I will say that I have 

 had horses and cattle pasture on it where there was 

 red clover, timothy, blue grass, rye, and native grass; 

 and while the stock let grasses, clover and rye seed, 

 they did not let the sweet clover get more than four 

 inches high ; while with only a barbed-wire fence sep- 

 arating, other sweet clover grew six feet high. I have 

 also had the same experience with it as a hog-pasture, 

 and have had the hogs root and eat the sweet-clover 

 roots in the fall and spring, and not disturb the red 

 clover in the same pasture. I have also seen stock 

 refuse good hay when offered sweet clover, and several 

 ocners have done finely with it here. Alfalfa also does 

 well when inoculated by sweet clover. I consider 

 sweet clover almost as valuable as alfalfa on account 

 of it being very hardy, and reseeds better than any 

 of the clovers. The roots die in two years, leaving 

 fifteen to twenty tons of vegetable matter in the soil. 

 I have had red clover and alfalfa grow four feet high 

 here, while sweet clover has grown six feet high; and 

 could I have only one of these it would be sweet 

 clover. 



A test was made with it in feeding sheep in Wyom- 

 ing a year ago last winter, which gave about the same 

 results as alfalfa. It was not hard to find farmers in 

 Southeast Nebraska twenty-five years ago who de- 

 clared that they would sooner grow a crop of weeds on 

 yieir land than a crop of alfalfa, while now many 

 the same have half of their land in alfalfa, and 



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