wish the other half was also I fear we often allow 

 our prejudice and erroneous notions to get the be^ 

 of us, and do not investigate and make actual expert 

 ments for ourselves so as to obtain facts and truths 

 that would he valuable to us alL 



I have no sweet-clover seed for sale. 



Garfield Co. J. S. Harris. 



SWEET CLO\EE IN KENTUCKY. 



Editor NedrasJca Farmer: — Mr. V. R. Thompson, 

 president of the Brown County (Ohio) Agricultural 

 Society, tells me that the fattest bunch of grass cattle 

 he ever saw came off a twenty-acre washed and gullied 

 hillside near Milford, Kentucky, where sweet clover 

 had taken possession, simply because the land was too 

 poor to grow anything else. 



Sweet clover grows along creeks here on sandbars, 

 also on wornout clay by roadsides. 



Ohio. C. D. Lyon. 



Clippings from Farm and Fireside, 



TO RELIEVE ELOAI^ IN SHEEP. 



A reader at Gibbon, Neb., refers to a former ar- 

 ticle by Mr. Harris in these words: "In a recent issue 

 you published an article on sweet clover by Mr. S. J 

 Harris in which he states that 'It contains the remedy 

 to relieve bloat of alfalfa.' Now, I have had trouble 

 in pasturing sheep on alfalfa, and would like to know 

 if sweet clover will prevent bloat when planted with 

 alfalfa, or should the clover alone be used? What is 

 Its value as compared with alfalfa as a food for 

 sheep ?" 



The bitterness of sweet clover is due to a drug 

 called cumarin contained within the plant. It is this 

 drug that prevents bloat when animals are pastured 

 upon sweet clover. Professor Buffum, of Wyoming, is 

 breeding this bitter principle out of the plant; but 

 some friends of sweet clover say they would not have 

 it out of their sweet clover if they could, because it 

 is so valuable in preventing bloat. While it is com- 

 monly accepted that sweet clover will not cause bloat 

 because of the cumarin it contains, we do not knovj^ 

 and do not know that Mr. Harris meant to say that ^ 



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