renewer. It will grow in many places wliere alfal:^ 

 will not. It serves to introduce alfalfa. When growl 

 and cured right it makes a feed that stock will not 

 only thrive on, but relish. As far as feeding value 

 goes, it runs alfalfa a close second. As long as we 

 do not make a fad of it, we believe it is destined to do 

 many fine things for farmers. Editor. 



SWEET CLOVER: ITS WORTH AND ITS 



CULTURE. 



MELILOTUS INDORSED AGAIN. 

 From Fai in tnul Fireside. 



Sweet clover (melilotus) meets the approval of 

 every farmer in this neighborhood as a valuable pas- 

 ture and a soil restorer. For sheep, cattle, and horses 

 it is hard to equal, and its blossoms are also fine for 

 bees. A neighbor who has been in the bee business 

 thirty years says his bees produced 150 pounds of 

 honey in one season from one stand. This may seem 

 an unqualified statement, but it is well vouched for. 



This clover thrives on some of the poorest soils here 

 in Southern Indiana. Nothing surpasses it for bring- 

 ing back fertility to the soil in the shortest time 

 The roots of the plant the second year go to a great 

 depth, making them a high-class fertilizer. On the 

 death of the plant at the close of the second year the 

 roots decay and the fields can be plowed at this time 

 or come again from the seed. 



If thrashed, sweet clover gives fifteen bushels of 

 seed an acre, now selling at three to six dollars a 

 bushel. If the plants are plowed under, my expe- 

 rience has been that the land, after two or four 

 years, is left in shape to produce fifteen hundred 

 pounds of tobacco to the acre, of the finest quality. 

 I believe every farmer who owns hill ground or land 

 that is not suitable for alfalfa will be justified in 

 giving this clover a trial. J. R. Ceaigmyle. 



NEW LIFE TO WORN SOILS. 



My first planting of sweet clover as a soil-make'f 

 was on an old, worn, and almost completely exhausted 



