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SWEET CLOVER, WHITE ANNUAL 
The new annual sweet clover plant that made a 
growth of 36 inches in 24 days, or iy 2 inches a 
day. 
and the beekeeper with honey. A crop of 
hay, which the biennial sweet clover would 
require 15 months to produce, the annual 
variety will supply in 4 or 5 months. In 
much less time it will offer a rapid, rank- 
growing' pasture to cattle and other stock. 
In localities where the natural grasses do 
not thrive well, and the farmer or stock- 
man has been dependent on the biennial 
form, a crop of forage can be harvested 
now in a single season. 
Undoubtedly the greatest use of this clo¬ 
ver will be as a green manure crop for 
seeding with small grain in the spring, to 
be plowed under in the late fall of the same 
year. When used in this way in Iowa, it 
has made an average height of 3% feet 
and come to full bloom after oats, with a 
production of over two tons of water-free 
material high in nitrogen. An early strain 
made an average height of 3 feet and fully 
matured a seed crop following the harvest 
of a crop of oats. There is no other clover, 
so far as known, from which such results 
can be secured. In the latitude of New Jer¬ 
sey an early farm crop can be followed by 
one of this clover, which by October would 
produce a growth of plants which would 
equal in value 8 or 10 loads of manure per 
acre. Such a crop could be followed by 
rye^ which could be ploughed under the 
following spring, or left on the ground as 
Six feet high in only 100 days from the seed. 
