WHITE SWEET CLOVER 
THE GREAT PASTURE 
FOR HOGS 
Salzer’s White Sweet Clover Makes a Great Sheep and Horse 
Pasture 
Sweet Clover is grown for bees, for hay and for green forage, 
but its greatest importance is in its value as a pasture plant and 
as a fertilizer. Sweet Clover grows in all parts of the U. S. Al¬ 
ways sow a little with all spring sown grain. It ranks as one of 
the highest fertilizers of any of the leguminous crops. 
It is a biennial leguminous plant of tall, shrub-like growth, 
somewhat like a coarse alfalfa growing 8 to 10 feet high. Its 
blossoms which rarely appear until the second year, are white 
and give a strong smell of honey, quite perceptible some dis¬ 
tance away. If not allowed to reseed, it will die out the second 
year. 
Soil.—Sweet Clover thrives on the poorest, sandy soil and on 
dry hill sides, where no other clover will grow; in the west where 
irrigation forced the alkali to the surface with the result that it 
has killed all vegetation except some salt-weeds, sweet clover is 
the only plant that will grow and make a good yield. It will 
endure as much drought as alfalfa, does better on wet soil than 
the latter, and it stands more heaving and frost than red or alsike 
clover. Wherever it has grown for two or more years it has left 
a rich spot which is readily taken up by other crops. Seed may 
be sown from early spring until late fall. Sow 15 lbs. per acre, 
% inch deep. _ Sub-soil should be very compact, for best results. 
As a Fertilizer Sweet Clover ranks the highest of leguminous 
crops. Like all plants of this class it has the ability to gather 
nitrogen, the dearest of all fertilizers, from the air. and enriches 
the soil with it. but it is different from all other legumes in its 
remarkable root development. All other clovers have slender, 
fibrous roots which are slow to decay, but Sweet Clover develops 
clusters of fleshy roots, which reach many feet into the ground, 
and which the New York Experimental Station estimated to weigh 
20 tons per acre, and these long, fleshy roots decay when two years 
old as soon as the seed matures, leaving their 
nitrogen contents in condition for immediate 
use, and the soil in the highest state of per¬ 
meability through their deep penetration. 
This enormous enrichment of the soil cannot 
be brought about in any other way at so 
little cost. 
INOCULATE THIS 
SEED WITH 
HUMOGERM 
A Weed Eradieator—Sweet clover, when 
once fairly started, smothers out all weeds 
by its dense growth. 
A Forerunner of Alfalfa is Sweet Clover 
often called, and correctly so, as a crop of 
it, if plowed under in Fall, will greatly en¬ 
rich the soil, and inoculate it with Bacteria 
and will leave the land in splendid condition 
for a good crop of alfalfa. 
As a Pasture Plant Sweet Clover is most 
valuable. It is the first forage plant in 
Spring that affords green food to animals 
and the last one that is killed by frost, and 
in midsummer, too. it is cheerfully green 
when all grasses are dry 
and parched. Its grazing 
capacity is one beast per 
acre. It grows very rap¬ 
idly, and as soon as it is 
5 to 6 inches tall, the cat¬ 
tle should be turned on, as 
tramping the ground suits it and it should 
never be allowed to grow very tall or it will 
get hard and woody; if kept eaten down not 
very close to the ground the plants will 
throw constantly out fresh growth. 
Cattle not accustomed to it do not always 
eat it readily at first but soon acquire a taste 
for it and prefer it then to all other plants: 
it gives the milk and butter a most delicious 
flavor and cattle, although they fill up on it 
to the highest pitch, never bloat. It is al¬ 
ways relished by horses and sheep. Sow 
15 lbs. per acre. Lb. 2 lbs. 5 lbs. 
Ppd. to 4th Zone 
Hogs should not be allowed to pasture on 
Sweet Clover unless well ringed as there 
seems to be something about the large roots 
that hogs are fond of, and they will dig up 
every one of them and kill the plants. 
Bee Pasture—Sweet Clover blooms the fol¬ 
lowing year after sowing. By the time alsike 
and white clover and basswood are going out 
of bloom, about July 1st, the Sweet Clover 
comes well into flower, and when pastured 
or mowed for hay, it will bloom continually 
until frost. It yields a big crop of honey 
which is excellent quality. 
Hay — Sweet Clover 
should be cut the first sea¬ 
son when it shows the 
maximum growth in Fall. 
The second year it is cut 
before it comes into, full 
bloom; it will make fine 
hay for all stock; in quality it is second to 
none and has the same feeding value as 
alfalfa. Lambs fed with Alfalfa and Sweet 
Clover for comparison showed during 14 
weeks an average gain of 30.7 pounds if fed 
on Sweet Clover and of 34.4 lbs. if fed on 
alfalfa. In the northern states Sweet Clover 
is generally pastured until about July, and 
when stock is taken off, it will grow rapidlv 
again. The hay contains 14.5% crude pro¬ 
tein. Bags extra: i/ 2 bu. size at I5c; bu. 
size, 20c; 2 Vi: bu. new, 45c; 2%bu.used, 30c. 
5 lbs. 15 lbs. 30 lbs. 60 lbs. 100 
Not Prepaid lbs. 
4252 — Choice (Scarified) ... $0.33 $0.52 $0.98 
4253— Superior (Scarified) . .34 .54 1.00 
4254 — Radium (Scarified).. .35 .56 1.03 
$0.70 
$ 2.10 
2.15 
2.18 
$3.90 
4.00 
4.10 
$7.50 $12.00 
7.65 12.25 
7.80 12.50 
One Sweet Clover Plant 
Unexcelled Pasture for Hogs and Cattle 
Sweet Clover is easily grown, makes a great pas¬ 
ture, produces a splendid flow of milk, it is a won- 
derful soil builder, and it is a great drouth resister. 
GRUNDY COUNTY SWEET CLOVER 
This is a comparatively new, white blossom strain, 
which is two to three weeks earlier than the com¬ 
mon white-sweet, and not quite as rank a grower. 
Developed in Grundy County, Illinois, hence its name. 
Although it grows to a good height and makes an 
elegant hay crop, it is not as tall as the common, and 
is much more easily handled. It is finer and more 
leafy, branching thickly about a foot above the 
ground and making better quality hay, and it yields 
more seed. Yields of 9 to 15 bu. of seed per acre 
have been reported. As the seed is smaller than 
that of the common strains, it requires less seed to 
sow an acre, which will appeal to all thrifty farmers. 
Its one great advantage is its earliness. As it is three 
weeks earlier, the seed ripens nicely ahead of any of the 
weeds that may be in one’s land. We offer scarified 
seed only. 15 lbs. per acre. Bags extra. See above. 
4262— Choice . 
4263— Superior 
4264— Radium 
Lb. 2 lbs. 
Ppd. 4th 
5 lbs. 1 
Zone 1 
| 5 lbs. 
15 lbs. 30 lbs. 60 lbs. 
Not Prepaid 
100 lbs. 
$0.34 
.35 
.36 
$0.54 
.56 
.58 
$1.00 
1.03 
1.06 
$0.72 
.75 
.78 
$2.15 
2.18 
2.20 
$4.00 $7.65 
4.10 7.80 
4.15 7.95 
$12.25 
12.50 
12.75 
Sfw Salzer’s Seeds 
The cleanest and best Clover Seed that I ever had, came from the John A. 14^ 
Salzer Seed Co.—Mr. Edson Howe, Macon, Mo. 
