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ROYAL QUALITY SEEDS BEST BY EVERY TEST 
Grows best in cool, moist sections, but persists 
in the South during the hot summers. Grows 
well in shady places. Usually sown with other 
grasses for lawns or permanent pastures. 
Grows rapidly and stands close cutting, mak¬ 
ing it a most valuable grass in a lawn mixture. 
When sown alone, 6 to 8 pounds to the acre 
is usual rate. 
Red Clovers 
SWEET CLOVERS 
SWEET CLOVER (Melilotus Alba) —Only 
a few years ago. Sweet Clover was considered 
a weed pest. Today, it is counted one of our 
most valuable forage plants, having spread 
over much of the United States and Canada. 
Thrives well in both humid and semi-arid re¬ 
gions. Is a biennial plant, growing seedlings 
2 to 4 feet high, with a deep root the first 
season. Quite early the second season, it be¬ 
gins its growth and produces stems 6 to 12 
feet high, bearing white sweet scented flowers. 
SWEET CLOVER has been successfully 
utilized for pasturage, hay and green manure. 
Provides excellent pasturage for all kinds of 
stock, especially for hogs and cattle. Will 
carry 20 to 30 head to the acre. For hay, 
should be cut as the first blossom appears, as 
later, the stems tend to become woody. In 
the North, one hay cutting or one of hay and 
one of seed may be secured. In the South, 
three cuttings of hay or two of hay and one 
of seed may be harvested. Yields of hay are 
reported from 1tons to 3 tons per acre. As 
a legume. Sweet Clover brings nitrogen from 
the air into the soil. For green manure, it is 
probably unsurpassed. Authorities claim plow¬ 
ing under a crop of Sweet Clover is equal to 
the application of ten loads of manure to the 
acre. May be plowed under in the fall or 
spring of the first or second season after utiliz¬ 
ing for hay or pasture. The chief supply of 
seed is gwwn in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota 
and Canada. 
In planting, four things are important: 
1— A well-firmed seed bed. 
2— Scarified seed, on account of the preva¬ 
lence of hard seeds. 
3— Inoculation with Nitragin. 
4— 15 to 20 pounds to the acre of seed 
should be used. 
YELLOW BLOSSOM (Melilotus Officinalis) 
—Belongs to the same family and grows much 
the same as the White Blossom, but is about 
two weeks earlier. Is somewhat smaller and 
less leafy. 
KOREAN LESPEDEZA — Is grown most 
anywhere, even on acid soil, waste or worn 
out land, and bare hillsides. All that is neces¬ 
sary is to scratch the soil with a harrow and 
sow the seed, some even broadcast it without 
soil preparation. It withstands droughts. It 
stands heavy grazing and largely increases the 
grazing capacity of pastures. In feeding 
value it is nearly as good as alfalfa—stock 
relish it. Sow in the spring, about 20 pounds 
to the acre. 
GRASSES 
KENTUCKY or MISSOURI 
BLUE GRASS (Poa Pratensis) 
As a lawn grass in the north, also as the 
chief pasture grass on good soils. Blue Grass 
ranks first. It grows slowly at first and does 
Blue Grass 
not form a good sod until the second season. 
It blooms once a year. Blue Grass pastures 
start up early in the spring and remain green 
until late fall. They provide the sweetest, 
most nutritious pasturage for stock, improv¬ 
ing with each season’s growth. 
