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Sweet Clover Is the Best Soil Builder 
OUR PEORIA STORE 
Located at 116-11S So. Washington St., iy 2 
blocks from court house square. Glad to have 
you .make this your headquarters when in our 
city. 
SWEET CLOVER 
Crop very short in the United States. Practically 
nothing in Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois or the western 
part of the Dakotas, but a fair crop in eastern Dakotas, 
Red River Valley and Minnesota. Canada also produced 
a good crop this year which has held the sweet clover 
seed market down probably $2.00 per bushel. At the 
low price this year there is going to be an enormous de¬ 
mand and we would recommend ordering at once. 
One acre of good stand of sweet clover will produce 
as much nitrogen as sixteen loads of manure, as much 
phosphorus as 250 pounds of phosphate and as much 
potassium as is contained in 133 pounds of potash, all 
this for a cost of about $1.25 per acre for seed, besides 
you may get a lot of good fall pasture. Plow sweet 
clover under early the next spring before it makes any 
top growth, as this top growth has no fertility value, but 
the plant food is transported from the root to the top. 
Amount of Sweet Clover to Sow 
Much sweet clover is seeded too thin. You get only 
half a stand, other half weeds, results most of your 
money wasted. 
Different soils require different rates of seedings to 
get a stand. 
If you have good, rich, black soil, a bushel of sweet 
clover seed to six or seven acres will give you a stand. 
If you have thin land, insufficient lime, better put a 
bushel on five to six acres. 
If your soil shows acid and never has been limed, bet¬ 
ter buy mammoth red clover and mix in some Lespedeza 
seed with it. Lespedeza is so very cheap this year, it 
will pay to use more of it. 
RE SURE TO INOCULATE 
All legumes should be inoculated, but sweet clover and alfalfa, 
it is absolutely necessary for good results. The cost is small and 
returns pay you big interest. 
Giant Lespedeza 
This is a strain of Lespedeza which produces fully twice as 
much feed as the common Korean and will produce much farther 
north. Grows almost as tall as alfalfa on good soil. For three 
years this seed has been produced by a grower for us who lives 
about 30 miles northwest of Peoria, Ill. This strain ripens seed 
this far north every year. We take his entire crop and ask you 
to try some of this lespedeza. Price, 25c lb. Some are charging 
$1.00 per pound for the same strain. 
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 the previous 
Dry Weight, Dry Weight, 
Date of Cutting Top Roots 
September 9th . 340 lbs. 140 lbs 
September 25th .1,230 lbs. 620 lbs. 
November 2nd.2,370 lbs. 980 lbs. 
Not cut in fall.2,170 lbs. 990 lbs. 
For Prices on All Sweet Clover, See Yellow Priee 
List 
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 clover^. 
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 
price list enclosed. 
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 I 
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. 
«spedeza 
When the sun burns everything up, along in July, 
August and early September, this is where a 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 put of unhulled Lespedeza. We have 
some excellent seed, testing 99.20, no noxious. All our Les¬ 
pedeza is Illinois grown. Prices very low this year. Price, 
$2.00 bu. 
