White 
Blossom 
Sweet 
Clover 
Yellow 
Blossom 
Grundy 
County 
Korean 
Lespedeza 
This clover is a good soil builder. It is more valuable for 
this purpose than for hay or pasture, because the hay is 
coarse and difficult to cure and is not particularly relished 
by stock. Planted in the Spring, it will give a line growth 
by Fall of the same year. White Blossom is a biennial variety 
(Melilotus alba). It lives for two years and then dies. 
Planted in the Spring or Fall of one year, it will live 
until mid-Summer of the following year. Let it go to seed 
and it will reseed itself and last for years. Used by many 
farmers to prepare the soil for later sowing of alfalfa. 
This is a yellow-flowering biennial Sweet Clover (Melilotus 
officinalis). It grows 2 to 2^ to 3 feet the first year, 4 to 5 
feet the second year. While it does not make as much top 
growth as White Blossom, yet it is preferred by some farm¬ 
ers because of its finer stems, which are nearly as fine as 
alfalfa. Therefore is preferred for haying or pasturing. 
An early dwarf strain of the biennial White Blossom Sweet 
Clover. Matures 2 weeks earlier. Has finer stems. Makes 
finer hay. Grows palatable feed. Not as tall. 
Lespedeza is widely used from Maryland South. For soil 
improvement on lands too poor for other clovers. It is an 
annual killed by the first frost. 
Not so good a hay crop for the Northern sections. In 
sections further South, it reseeds itself. 
Korean Lespedeza makes from 1 to 4 tons of hay per 
acre in the South. Easy to cure. For best hay, sow 20 to 
25 lbs. seed per acre. It is a great drought resister, and 
also a legume, storing nitrogen in its roots. Be sure to in¬ 
oculate this seed. 
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