^Jioffman's 
SWEET 
CLOVER 
INOCULATE 
This Seed 
IT PAYS! 
See Pate 10 
This clover is popular because it has no equal as a soil 
builder and temporary pasture on lands that are too poor 
for the better clovers. It will grow anywhere where the soil 
is not sour. When cut for hay, it may make but little second 
growth. Be sure to cut it high. 
The best pasture from Sweet Clover comes the second year 
after seeding. Do not plow it down the Spring after it is 
sown, until it has made a good growth. 
Sweet Clover will produce a good stand on any neutral 
well-drained soil. On poorer lands, however, it requires 
as much lime as alfalfa. 
If you need something to help out on pasture, sweet clover 
may make considerable good grazing after mid-Summer. 
For this purpose, seed alone early in the Spring on well- 
drained land that is not sour. 
Cows should be turned on second-year sweet clover when 
it is 6" to 10" high, depending on the soil, the size of the 
herd, and the acreage. It will sometimes carry 3 cows per 
acre from May to mid-Summer. 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 is frequently a good plan to sow some Red or Alsike 
Clover along with the Sweet Clover until you are sure it 
will thrive. Sweet Clover is many times sown into corn at 
the last cultivation and pastured the following Summer, 
instead of putting the corn stubble in oats. 
The Sweet Clover can then be plowed, and the ground 
put into wheat. This plan will he successful, especially 
during seasons of ample rainfall. 
These purebred Guernseys are doing well on their Sweet Clover 
pasture . . . Calvert County, Maryland. 
