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THE BARTELDES 
SEED COMPANY 
MAKES HAY AND PASTURE WHILE 
ENRICHING THE SOIL 
• Sweet Clover has been growing Wild in 
, the Middle West for a great many years. 
f<7 Up until a few years ago it was considered 
a weed, but now its good qualities are known 
and it occupies a very important place 
> in agriculture. 
The features or qualities which make 
Sweet Clover so valuable are: First, the 
ability to thrive, produce good hay and 
good pasture on very poor soils; and second, 
the ability to improve the soil on which it 
is growing. .r • 
Nearly every farm has some land which 
is too poor to grow alfalfa, corn, wheat or 
other crops. Sweet Clover is just the thing 
for such patches. It. will make these patches 
productive and will improve . the soils so 
that after a few years they can grow other 
crops. 
Sweet Clover will stand a great deal of 
drought and will also thrive in moist soils. 
Stock do not always take to. it at first, but 
will eat it readily after they once acquire 
a taste for it. A good way to induce them 
to eat it is to sprinkle a little brine over 
the hay. 
Although Sweet Clover is very hardy and 
will thrive in the most unfavorable places 
it is sometimes difficult to get a good stand. 
This difficulty can be overcome by sowing 
the seed on a thoroughly compacted seed 
bed with just enough loose dirt to cover 
the seed and by sowing scarified seed. 
Scarifying is done on a machine which 
f blows the seed against a strip of coarse 
sand paper. This scratches each seed 
just enough to allow the moisture to en- 
ter and cause the, seed to germinate. 
Sweet Clover has a very hard shell and 
when the seed is not scarified much of it 
will lay in the ground before it grows. 
Our Sweet Clover is all scarified at no ex- 
pense to you. 
Sweet Clover is sown either in the spring 
or in the fall at the rate of from 15 to 20 
pounds of hulled seed to the acre. 
Sweet Clover is a biennial which means 
that it lives two years. It makes a rapid 
growth the first season and can be cut for 
hay or pastured during the latter part of the summer. The second season it makes hay and pasture and 
will also bloom and make seed. It dies at the end of the second season, but if it is allowed to do so it 
reseeds itself and comes up again the following spring. 
Sweet Clover is grown very extensively throughout the Middle West. We are right in the heart of the 
Sweet Clover country and therefore can at all times supply the very best seed at the lowest market prices. 
We handle two varieties of Sweet Clover; the Biennial White Blossom and Biennial Yellow Blossom. 
WHITE BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER (Melilotus alba). This is the popular and standard variety. 
It is a biennial, grows to a height of from 4 to 6 feet, is a very vigorous grower, is extremely hardy and 
produces abundant pasturage and lots of hay. This is the standard Sweet Clover of the country. Lb., 20c. 
BIENNIAL YELLOW BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER (Melilotus officinalis). This is also a biennial 
and preferred by some people on account of its earliness. It is about two weeks earlier than the white, 
does not grow quite as tall and not quite as heavy or as coarse. Do not confuse this with the annual Yellow 
Blossom which is. of very little value. Lb., 20c. 
OUR FINK LIST 
Prices of Alfalfa, Clovers, Grass Seeds and Grains fluctuate constantly during the season. Our catalog: is printed 
in November and -December and in making- our prices of field seeds we can do one of three things. Make ou>* 
prices in the catalog- for all season, issue a monthly price list, or issue a price list every few days during- the 
seasonu ' . 
If we were to make the prices in the catalog- for all season we would necessarily have to make these very high 
so as to protect ourselves against advances. If we printed a monthly price list we would have to make these prices 
high enough to take care of possible advance during the month. 
Therefore, in order to give our customers the lowest market prices at all times we issue our Pink Last. We 
can always quote the very lowest prices in line with the market. 
To show how this works out in actual practice. Suppose we were printing a list on January 1st and these prices 
were to hold good for a month. If the price of Alfalfa Seed was $30.00 on January 1st we would feel compelled to 
make our price $31.00 to take care of a possible advance of $1.00 during the month. 
If, however, we are issuing a daily price list we can make our price $80.00 because we know that if the price 
advances we can get out a new list to take care of this advance. If. however, the price should decline to $28.00 by 
the middle of the month we would issue a new list quoting the $28.00 price. In this case you would buy your Al- 
falfa Seed from us at $28.00, whereas if you were buying from the monthly price list you would still be paying S31.00. 
