Sweet Clover for Forage and Fertility 
White Blossom 
Tall Biennial Sweet Clover. 
Tree Sweet Clover 
with your order on 
Booklet 
request. 
Legume crops such as Sweet Clover will be m 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 a leading crop in the United Slates. 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. 
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. $r.^5, 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. $1.26, 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. 
What some of our customers have to say 
Forest Co., Wise. 
F. S. N. Co. May 12, 1939 
We have very much appreciated the prompt per¬ 
sonal service your hrm has ahvays given us, and 
hope to send you many more orders. I wonder if 
you realize that the personal note of your catalog 
and letters makes many of isolated farmers feel 
as if zee had friends in Faribault—more so than 
many other equally good seed hrms. 
Good luck to you — 
Mrs. Lester Grandine. 
Isanti Co., Minn. 
March 19, 1939 
F. S. N. Co. 
I wish to include a fezv lines with 
this order, and thank you for the good 
seed and fruit trees which we have 
received from you the ^ past six years. 
Our Chinese Elms ‘ are five years 
old, and the^ admiration of all who see 
them. Their shape and grozvth is 
splendid. And our Dolgo Crab Tree 
has its fruit on display at the Minne¬ 
sota State Fair each year. 
Our Ideal Corn filled a silo 12 x 24 
ft. last fall froni 3% acres and we 
could not crozvd it all in, in two fill¬ 
ings. 
The Golden King Corn also gave a 
heavy yield, planted in squares, and 
was fully ripe early in September. 
Wishing you success, I remain. 
Yours truly, 
Mrs. Emil Johnson, R. 1 
Marshall Co., Minn. 
June 1, 1939 
F. S. N. Co. 
I ordered 12 lbs. of Vi-Vita Superior 
Wheat Germ and 12 lbs. of Soy Break¬ 
fast Meat Cracks. 
These foods are better than cheap 
oat meal, and I need some good food 
because I am digging all stones on my 
held. My alfalfa is in fine shape now 
—40 acres of Cossack, all from Regis¬ 
tered Blue Tag Seed, and 20 acres of 
Grimm. I seeded 17 acres more this 
spring. 
Enoch Anderson. 
Jo Daviess Co., III. 
March 23. 1939 
F. S. N. Co. 
Permit me to compliment you on 
zvhat I consider the very finest line of 
seeds and nursery stock on the mar¬ 
ket—namely Farmer, .^s far as choice 
varieties and dependability are con¬ 
cerned, your garden seeds are very 
distinctly outstanding, and in a class 
by themselves. For many years I have 
taken ez>ery occasion to heartily recom¬ 
mend your seeds in my zvork as a 
teacher, 
Paul C. Potratz, 
Mt. Juliette School 
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. 
Things Worth Knowing 
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 instance, 
a bin containing 10 cubic feet will hold 8 
bushels of grain, 8 being four-fifths of 10. 
RICH FERTILE FIELDS 
GOOD CROPS 
HIGH PROTEIN HAY 
increased SOIL FERTILITY 
PROSPERITY 
LOW PRODUCING SOUS 
POOR CROPS 
LOW PROTEIN HAY 
DECREASED SOIL FERTILITY 
POVERTY 
BUILD UP YOUR SOIL 
Inoculate Your Legumes with NITRAGIN 
Inoculate your Legume seeds even tho planted on 
fields that have been inoculated before. Field tests 
have shown that better crops are harvested when 
Legume seeds ^ are inoculated even when planted on 
fields where inoculated seeds of the same Legume 
crops had grown the previous year. 
INOCULATE WITH NITRAGIN 
NITRAGIN is an approved, moist humus culture- 
tested and guaranteed — easy to apply — packed with 
Billions of fresh bacteria — the cheapest legume crop 
insurance money can buy. Directions on every can. 
NITRAGIN INOCULATION PRICES 
When Ordering, ALWAYS State Name of Seed 
ALFALFA, all CLOVERS 
Size Retail 
Vj bu. ea.$ .30 
1 bu. ea.50 
2^2 bu. ea. 1.00 
PEAS (All Varieties) 
VETCHES (All Varieties) 
54 bu. ea.$ .25 
I bu. ea.40 
134 bu. ea.60 
5 bu. ea. 1.70 
1254 bu. ea.4.00 
BEANS 
String, Wax, Kidney 
54 bu. ea. 
1 bu. ea. 
5 bu. ea. 
,$ .25 
, .40 
1.70 
LESPEDEZA Hulled or Unhniled 
Size Retail 
1 bu. ea.$ .30 
2 bu. ea.50 
5 bu. ea. 1.00 
SOYBEANS, LIMA BEANS, 
COW PEAS and PEANUTS 
bu. ea. 
bu. ea.. 
bu. ea.. 
bu. ea.. 
bu. ea.. 
.$ .30 
. .50 
. 1.00 
. 1.40 
. 2.90 
1 
2 
5 
10 
25 
GARDEN SIZE 
Garden Peas and Beans 
Sweet Peas and Lupines 
Enough for 6 lbs. seed 
Retail Price 10c each. 
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