These purebred Guernseys are doing well on their Sweet Clover 
pasture . .' . Calvert County, Maryland 
^Jloffmati’s 
SWEET 
CLOVER 
INOCULATE 
This Seed 
IT PAYS! 
See Page 10 
Here is a way to improve poor ground with little labor and 
expense. Plant Sweet Clover. It is a great soil improver. 
Will grow most anywhere. A wonderful soil-enriching 
crop. Splendid for green manure. Rich in nitrogen. Easy 
to plow—its roots being soft and tender. Sweet Clover, 
under favorable conditions, gives a strong growth, supplies 
a winter covering and pasture in the early Spring. 
Although Sweet Clover will do well almost anywhere, 
note these two points carefully: 
1. Sweet Clover needs lime. 
2. The seed should always be inoculated. 
Use the same amount of lime for sweet clover that you 
would for alfalfa. Sow about twenty pounds of seed per 
acre. Cover the seed well. Hoffman’s Sweet Clover Seed 
has been scarified to quicken the growth of the plants. 
If you need something to help out on pasture, Sweet 
Clover may make considerable good grazing after mid¬ 
summer. That is, if seeded alone early in the Spring on 
good land which is adapted to it. . . . When sown in a 
grain field, Sweet Clover generally needs most of the first 
year’s growth to make enough root for a maximum yield 
the second season. Cows should be turned onto second-year 
Sweet Clover when it is 6 to 10 inches high, depending on 
the soil, the size of the herd, and the acreage. It will some¬ 
times carry three cows per acre from May to midsummer. 
Cows must be fenced in until they acquire a taste for it. 
Growth should be kept down to about a foot in height to 
promote branching and retard seeding. Give the cows 
plenty of water and some dry roughage. 
It may be a good plan to sow some Red or Alsike Clover 
along with the Sweet Clover, until you are sure it will 
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