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Sweet Clover Is the Best Soil Builder 
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SWEET CLOVER 
Sweet Clover is the scarcest item the farmer will have 
to buy in the seed line this year. In the big western 
states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne¬ 
braska and Kansas where most of the sweet clover is 
usually produced the crop was burned up and practi¬ 
cally no seed harvested this year. These states nor¬ 
mally the largest producers are going to have to buy 
some place else. The only section in the United States 
which produced any quantity of sweet clover is a--small 
strip west of the Red River Valley in North Dakota and 
South Dakota and the northern two-thirds of Minnesota. 
The whole United States this year is looking to this 
small section for their supply and some will have to 
use substitutes for sweet clover this year as there 
simply wasn’t enough produced to supply 50% of the 
demand. Red clover shortage can be supplanted with 
imported seed but there is no place from which to im¬ 
port sweet clover except Canada and they have a very 
small crop and will need all they have. Even at the 
price of sweet clover it is the cheapest supplier of ni¬ 
trogen. One acre of good stand sweet clover will pro¬ 
duce as much nitrogen as 16 loads of manure, as much 
phosphorus as 250 pounds of phosphate and as much 
potassium as contained in 133 pounds of potash. Just 
think of getting all of this for the cost of 10 pounds of 
sweet clover which is about $1.75. There isn’t anything 
equal to sweet clover as a soil builder where it can be 
grown successfully. Sweet Clover has the ability to 
convert the different elements of the soil into plant food. 
A good crop of sweet clover will produce eight tons of 
green roots per acre. Best way to grow sweet clover as 
a fertilizer is to plow it under the first year late in the 
fall or early in the spring. Never let top growth get 
up more than 8 to 10 inches high as there is a steady 
decrease in fertilizing value in the roots and top growth 
after this. In growing 60 bushel corn it requires 150 
pounds of nitrogen. 100 bushel of oats it takes 100 
pounds of nitrogen. 100 bushel of wheat takes 250 
pounds of nitrogen. If you expect to be able to produce 
profitable crops you are going to have to grow more 
legumes, and sweet clover is one of the best. Sweet 
clover, the same as alfalfa, requires a sweet soil to do 
best, so before wasting any money for seed, test or have 
your soil tested. 
Big White Biennial Best 
Produces the heaviest top growth, also develops a It has the power to break up hard soil, make it 
large root system, often going down several feet in much more productive, making more life, and al- 
the subsoil bringing up valuable plant food from lows better soil circulation, 
the subsoil below. See Price List for Prices 
Bo Not Cut or Pasture Sweet Clover Early in the Fall 
Cutting sweet clover early first fall or pasturing 
it close very greatly reduces its growth and fer¬ 
tilizing value the following spring. Sweet clover 
cut September 9th had only 340 lbs. of dry matter 
per acre in the tops on May 13th the following 
spring and 140 lbs. in the roots while sweet clover 
cut November 2nd had 2,370 lbs. in the top and 
980 lbs. in the roots. The following figures from 
the Ohio experimental station gives dry matter in 
lbs. per acre on May 13th and the tops and roots 
of sweet clover cut at various dates 
fall. 
Dry Weight, 
Date of Cutting Top 
September 9th . 340 lbs. 
September 25th .1,230 lbs. 
November 2nd.2,370 lbs. 
Not cut in fall.2,170 lbs. 
the previous 
Dry Weight, 
Roots 
140 lbs 
620 lbs. 
980 lbs. 
990 lbs. 
For Prices on All Sweet Clover, see Page 35 
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover 
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover has some charac¬ 
teristics which the other sweet clovers do not have. 
One is that it is the hardiest of all sweet clovers. 
You can get a stand of the yellow blossom much 
easier than with any other kind. It grows a lower, 
bushier plant than the big white, produces fine hay 
and is especially good to mix with the big white 
for pasture. Matures about two weeks earlier than 
the big white but not nearly so early as the Grundy. 
Sow same quantity as big white. For price see 
page 35. 
Grundy County Sweet Clover 
A hardy variety which originated in Grundy 
County, Illinois. White blossom, grows about 4 ft. 
high. Produces an enormous quantity of seed. On 
some soil where sweet clover grows rapidly and 
makes too much of a growth in small grains mak¬ 
ing harvesting difficult, many prefer this variety. 
Can be sown later in the season than other varie¬ 
ties as it requires a shorter growing period. All 
Grundy County sweet clover is northern Illinois 
grown, most of it coming from Grundy County, Ill. 
It does not have as hard seed coat as the Big White 
and is often sown without being scarified. 
Korean Lespedeza 
A southern clover which is highly recommended 
for poor thin land, where you cannot grow alfalfa, 
sweet clover or red clover successfully. Will grow 
on acid soils, where other clovers will not grow, 
but does best on a good soil, the same as any other 
plant. 
We have had considerable experience in growing 
Lespedeza, and find it has a place in a clover or 
pasture mixture, even as far north as Peoria, Ill. 
When the sun burns everything up, along In July, 
August and early September, this is where Lespe¬ 
deza does best, furnishing a lot of feed at a time 
when most needed. 
In buying Lespedeza, be sure to buy seed free of 
Dodder, dock and other noxious weed seeds. It is 
almost impossible to clean weed seeds out of un¬ 
hulled Lespedeza. We have some excellent seed, 
testing 99.20, no noxious. See price list. 
