Sweet Clover for Forage and Fertility 
Free Sweet Clover Booklet with your order on request. 
White Blossom 
Tall Biennial Sweet Clover. 
This makes the rankest, tallest growth of any 
clover, producing the biggest hay crops and most 
luxuriant pastures. Because of its dense growth 
and the great size of its root system, it is the 
best soil enricher and green fertilizer. It is the 
best crop to grow to prepare the ground for a 
stand of alfalfa. 
The plant looks much like alfalfa, especially 
when young, but the leaves are not quite as 
smooth, and taste slightly bitter. It forms a 
main stem from which the side branches grow, 
while in alfalfa the crown sends up numerous 
shoots. 
Our seed is of fine quality, free from foul 
weed seeds, and of highest germination. Price: 
Lb. 30c, 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid. See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
Yellow Blossom 
Dwarf Biennial Sweet Clover. 
This variety grows shorter and is finer and 
more spreading than the white, It makes a very 
fine quality hay and pasture. Yellow Blossom 
Sweet Clover is 10 to 15 days earlier in matur¬ 
ing its seed, and where seasons are very short 
or unfavorable, there is an advantage in sowing 
this strain. 
It can be cut for hay very early, and close to 
the ground, whereas the white must be cut high. 
It is also excellent for bees, supplementing the 
use of the white variety, and extending the 
season, on account of its earliness. Price: Lb. 
30c, 5 lbs. $1T25, postpaid. See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
Grundy County 
Dwarf Biennial Sweet Clover. 
Grundy County Sweet Clover is preferred by 
many farmers since it does not grow quite as 
tall as the common White Blossom variety and 
it produces finer stems and a greater number 
of leaves, making it better adapted for hay pur¬ 
poses. 
It matures earlier so that the hay crop can 
be cut before the small grain is harvested. 
It produces a seed crop earlier than other va¬ 
rieties and this is an advantage in many local¬ 
ities that are subjected to early frosts. The hay 
cures more rapidly than the common tall variety 
and is very palatable. 
Grundy County Sweet Clover makes an ex¬ 
cellent pasture but it does not last as late in 
the season as the common tall variety. Price: 
Lb. 30c, 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid. See Blue Figure 
Price List. _ _ 
Hubam 
Annual Sweet Clover. 
Hubam is an emergency pasture and hay crop 
to be sown in seasons where drought, freezing 
injury or other adverse conditions have wiped 
out pastures and meadows, leaving the farmers 
without any definite hay prospects. Hubam is 
a rapid grower and once it is well established 
can be pastured as you would pasture the bien¬ 
nial varieties of Sweet Clover. 
Hubam is an Annual Sweet Clover. It is best 
suited for the Corn Belt section. It grows from 
3 to 7 ft. high. It will produce as much as 
3 tons of hay per acre, cut just before blos¬ 
soming time. It grows on any good non-acid 
soil, and should be sown alone the same rate 
as other sweet clovers. Hubam will produce a 
seed crop in this latitude, in favorable growing 
seasons. Price: Lb. 40c, 5 lbs. $1.80, postpaid. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
Legume crops such as Sweet Clover will be in greater demand 
than ever before because of increased plantings for the maintenance 
of fertility under the U. S. Soil Conservation Program. Sweet 
Clover cannot be surpassed for soil improvement due to its rapidity 
of growth, large tonnage produced and its comparatively low seed 
Sweet Clover as a Hay or Pasture Crop 
Sweet Clover is the leading crop in the United States. As a bi¬ 
ennial legume, it fits in with any crop rotation, besides yielding a 
very large return of hay and pasture. Sweet Clover may grow one 
to three feet the first season and may be clipped for hay or pastured 
lightly if it makes a good growth. During the second year it grows 
very dense and rapidly and if cut for hay, it should be done early 
in the season, before the blossoms appear and the stems become 
woody. 
Cut Sweet Clover six to eight inches above the ground. Allow the 
hay to wilt a few hours, then place in small cocks until it is dry 
enough to stack. One acre furnishes pasture for two to four cows 
throughout the season. Cattle rarely bloat on it. 
As a Soil Builder and Weed Control 
Sweet Clover grows on clay, sandy, alkaline, or gumbo soil. It 
prevents drifting of shifting sandy soils. The hardpan subsoil is 
loosened by the heavy penetrating roots, allowing the necessary 
aeration and depositing large quantities of humus and nitrogen. 
Sweet Clover is a rank, dense grower of great value in exterminating 
weeds such as quack grass, thistle, etc. 
Use 15 lbs. of scarified seed per acre with a nurse crop of one- 
half the usual seeding of grain or 28 to 35 lbs. of flax per acre. 
Firm the seed bed well after planting. Inoculate with Nitragin. 
Useful Information 
for Everyday 
Reference 
Government Rule for Measuring Hay. 
Multiply width by length by over¬ 
throw, divide by four. Result will 
be cubic feet in stack. Divide by 
512. Answer will be tons. 
To Measure Grain in Bins. 
To find the number of bushels of 
grain in a bin, multiply the length 
by the width by the height, thus 
ascertaining the number of cubic 
feet, and deduct one-fifth. For in¬ 
stance, a bin containing 10 cubic 
feet will hold 8 bushels of grain, 8 
being four-fifths of 10. 
To Measure Ear Corn in Crib. 
Ascertain the number of cubic 
feet and multiply by four, then 
divide by ten. Most corn in cribs 
is figured by this rule. However, 
if the cobs are well filled and the 
corn is sound and dry and well set¬ 
tled in the crib, divide by nine. If 
the cobs are not well filled, or if the 
corn is damp or of inferior quality, 
divide by eleven. 
Weights of Various Farm Crops. 
Hay, well settled, per cubic 
foot. 4% lbs. 
Corn, on Cob, in bin, per 
cubic foot.22 lbs. 
Corn, Shelled, in bin, per 
cubic foot.45 lbs. 
Wheat, in bin, per cubic 
foot .48 lbs. 
Oats, in bin, per cubic foot.25% lbs. 
Potatoes, in bin, per cubic 
foot.60 lbs. 
Measure of Surface. 
144 Square Inches = 1 Square Foot 
9 Square Feet =. . . .1 Square Yard 
30% Square Yards = 1 Square Rod, 
Perch or Pole 
40 Square Rods =. . . 1 Square Rood 
4 Square Roods =...1 Square Acre 
Gunter’s Chain =.22 Yards 
or 100 Links 
10 Square Chains = . .1 Square Acre 
640 Square Acres = 1 Square Mile 
272% Square Feet = 1 Square Rod 
43,560 Square Feet =.1 Acre 
Number of Trees or Plants Per Acre 
F. S. & N. Co. 
“I have tried the Wis. 90 Day Master Hybrid Corn for 
tiL’o years, and I am very well pleased with it. It yielded 
over 50 bu. per acre, and I am also ordering some seed now 
for some of my neighbors that sazv the corn matured in the 
field. This Hybrid Corn stands up so well it is better than 
a snow fence to keep the snow back off the road. I leave 
some of the stalks standing for that purpose along my road, 
and it works O. K.” 
M. W. Munger, Warren, Minn., R. 3 
Each Way 
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Each Way 
10,790 
12 
ft.. 
302 
4,850 
15 
ft.. 
194 
2,723 
18 
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135 
1,742 
20 
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110 
1,210 
24 
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32 
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When Ordering, ALWAYS State Name of Seed 
ALFALFA, all CLOVERS 
Size Retail 
l / 2 bu. ea.$ .30 
1 bu. ea.50 
2% bu. ea. 1.00 
PEAS (All Varieties) 
VETCHES (All Varieties) 
% bu. ea.$ .25 
1 bu. ea.40 
1% bu. ea.60 
5 bu. ea. 1.70 
12% bu. ea. 4.00 
BEANS 
String, Wax, Kidney 
l / 2 bu. ea.$ .25 
1 bu. ea.40 
5 bu. ea. 1.70 
LESPEDEZA Hulledor Unhulled 
Size Retail 
1 bu. ea.$ .30 
2 bu. ea. .50 
5 bu. ea. 1.00 
SOYBEANS, LIMA BEANS, 
COW PEAS and PEANUTS 
1 bu. ea.$ .30 
2 bu. ea.50 
5 bu. ea. 1.00 
10 bu. ea. 1.60 
25 bu. ea.3.00 
GARDEN SIZE 
Garden Peas and Beans 
Sweet Peas and Lupines 
Enough for 4 lbs. seed 
Retail Price 10c each. 
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