Hoffman’s 
SWEET CLOVER Freight Will Be Paid—See Page 65 
SWEET CLOVER 
This clover is very popular as a soil 
builder, and for temporary pasture on land 
too poor for the better clovers. It will grow 
anywhere where the soil is not sour. When 
cut for hay, it makes but little second 
growth. Cut it high. 
Best pasture comes the second year. Do 
not plow it down the spring after it is sown, 
until it has made a good growth. Produces 
a good stand on neutral well-drained soil. 
On poorer lands requires as much lime as 
alfalfa. 
If you need something to help out on 
pasture, sweet clover may make consider¬ 
able good grazing after mid-summer. For 
this purpose, seed alone early in the spring 
on well-drained land that is not sour. 
Cows should be turned on second-year 
sweet clover when it is 6 inches to 10 inches 
high, depending on the soil, the size of the 
herd, and the acreage. It will sometimes 
carry three cows per acre from May to mid¬ 
summer. Cows must be fenced in until they 
acquire a taste for it. Keep growth down to 
about a foot to promote branching and re¬ 
tard seeding. 
Give the cows plenty of water and some 
dry roughage. It is frequently a good plan 
to sow some Red or Alsike Clover along 
with the Sweet Clover until you are sure it 
will thrive. Sweet Clover is many times 
sown into corn at the last cultivation and . 
pastured the following summer, instead of 
putting the corn stubble in oats. It can then 
be plowed, and the ground put into wheat. 
This plan will succeed, especially during sea¬ 
sons of ample rainfall. 
Wm. K. Anderson, Wash¬ 
ington County, Pa., a 25- 
year customer, made the fol¬ 
lowing comment: “I always 
get good crops and never 
had a kick with Hoffman's 
Seeds in all these years. We 
like your seeds.” 
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Cross-Breeding 
Of course you know the 
origin of the mule. . . . Did you 
know that cross-breeding two 
pure-bred lines of hogs makes 
pigs that gain much faster than 
would either of the original 
strains? ... In chickens, Rhode 
Island Reds and Plymouth 
Rocks are crossed, so that in 
three days the males can be 
told from the females (mighty 
important information to the 
pullet producer, or to the capon 
grower). 
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These cows are being pastured 
on sweet clover. They thrive 
on it. 
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