JACKSON, MICHIGAN 
Farm Seeds 63 
ISBELL'S BELL BRAND CLOVERS 
PRICES ON CLOVER SEED ARE SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGES. SEE 
CURRENT PRICE LIST FOR PRICES. 
Michigan Grown Clover Seed has always been classed as the hard¬ 
iest and best quality seed produced anywhere. It is always in demand 
where hardy seed is required and usually brings a premium in price. 
Only the cleanest and plumpest lots of seed are selected for Isbell’s 
Bell Brand. After recleaning this seed over our improved machinery, 
it is as nearly perfect as Clover Seed can be made. If you want the 
purest, cleanest Clover Seed you can get at the lowest price, buy 
Isbell’s Bell Brand. We will gladly submit samples and quote special 
prices on large quantities or club orders. 
Rorl J'lnuoK Also Called Small Red June. This is considered 
GlUVcr the most valuable of all the Clovers and is 
ISBELL’S “BELL” BRAND known to every farmer. It makes two crops 
each year. The first is usually cut when it is in blossom for hay; the last crop 
may be harvested for seed, cut for hay or plowed under to add fertility to the 
soil. It may be sown either in the Spring- or Pall, and if no other grasses are 
used, at the rate of 8 to 12 pounds per acre. We are in position to supply the 
finest quality seed that money can buy. Guaranteed high purity and germination. 
HiomiMAUt a A j Ehglisli Sapling or Pea Vine Clover. Well 
IVeammOtn Red CBOVer kn0W n in many parts of the country and 
ISBELL’S “BELL” BRAND highly valued for its enormous yield. It is 
claimed by many of our best farmers that it is easier to get a “catch” with 
Mammoth Red on light, sandy lands than with any other. For hog pasture it 
has no equal. It produces very large crops of hay, yielding from 3 to 5 tons per 
acre. As a fertilizer to plow under green it has no equal, and for this purpose 
sow 6 to 8 pounds per acre with all small grain. 
Mammoth Red Clover. 
Alsike or Swedish Clover 
The best Clover for low moist soils—or soils 
deficient in lime. 
Alsike Clover has a place on a great many farms 
where it is more profitable to grow than either Red 
Clover or Alfalfa. Under certain conditions it has many 
advantages over other Clovers—for instance where the soil 
is slightly acid or sour and lime is hard to get or for 
some reason has not been applied—sow Alsike Clover— 
it will stand poorly drained wet soils very well. 
Alsike makes an excellent feed for dairy cows, and is 
bright colored and sweet when properly cured. The plant 
being smooth it is less dusty than Red Clover hay. 
Alsike Clover seed is much smaller than Red Clover and 
will go twice as far. 
White Dutch Clover 
This is of particular value in permanent pastures and 
lawns. It will grow on most any kind of soil, and on 
wet ground. Being of creeping habit, it prevents ground 
from being washed by rains. Sow 5 to 6 lbs. per acre in 
lawn and pasture mixtures. 
Timothy and Alsike Mixed 
A valuable combination for both hay and pasture. Makes 
the finest hay and very good permanent pasture. Alsike 
will grow on land too wet and sour for Red Clover and 
Timothy, also thrives on low ground so that this com¬ 
bination is ideal for lowlands. 
ISBELL’S MIXTURE of Timothy and Alsike contains 20 
per cent Bell Brand Alsike by weight and 80 per cent Bell 
Brand Timothy. This is a strictly high grade mixture. 
SWEET CLOVER 
Sweet Clover Provides the Quickest and Cheapest Way to Improve Poor Land 
Sweet Clover is valuable for hay, pasture and plowing under. When cutting Sweet Clover for hay it should be cut 
from 6 to 8 inches above ground in order to produce another crop of hay, pasture or seed. Sweet-Clover may be seeded 
in the spring, summer or fall. It may be sown either with some kind of small grain, such as oats, barley or buck¬ 
wheat, or alone. Liming the ground and inoculating the seed will aid greatly in securing a good, even stand. 
White Blossom Sweet Clover 
(Melilotus Alba—Biennial) 
This variety is the one most generally used. It is a very rank grower, which makes 
it especially valuable for plowing under as a green manure crop. Down in Ohio 
where they have heavy, stiff clay soil commonly called "gumbo,” they often sow 
White Blossom Sweet Clover Seed in the summer or fall. The following August this 
is disked up with a tractor when the Sweet Clover is six to ten feet tall. The field 
is then drilled to wheat and yields of forty to fifty bushels per acre are obtained. 
The Sweet Clover loosens up the soil, adds humus and leaves a splendid mulch to 
protect the wheat over winter. 
When used as a pasture crop, stock should be turned in on it while young as at this 
stage it is very palatable. It makes the best kind of pasture for dairy cows and for 
fattening cattle. It fits into rotations like Red Clover. If wanted for permanent 
pasture the seed should be sown two successive years and each year the last crop 
should be allowed to reseed itself. 
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover 
(Melilotus Officinalis—Biennial) 
The Yellow Blossom type is very similar to that of the White Blossom, but it is 
not nearly so valuable as a nitrogen or humus builder and is more especially adapted 
as a hay or pasture. 
In late years, this type has been meeting with great favor as a hay and pasture 
crop. The plant is more palatable to livestock as it contains less cumarin and does 
not have so bitter a taste. It is not a rank grower; more on the order of alfalfa. 
For those who wish to use Sweet Clover for pasture, hay and bee purposes, we would 
advise the use of the Yellow Blossom type. It will give you very satisfactory results. 
Grundy County Sweet Clover 
A Dwarf Type of White Blossom Sweet Clover 
The name is derived from Grundy County, Illinois, where more Sweet Clover is 
grown than in any other county in the United States. Grundy County Sweet Clover 
is about three weeks earlier than common Sweet Clover, grows much smaller, more 
branching, leafier, and has finer stems. It seldom grows over 3% feet tall, produces 
finer hay and is a better seeder. 
Grundy County Sweet Clover is being grown in many places in Michigan and is 
rapidly gaining in favor. 
See Isbell’s Current Trice List for Trices of Clover and Field Seeds. 
Sweet Clover, 
