SWEET CLOVERS 
Thrive on Ground too Poor for the 
Other Clovers 
If you have some sections of poor land you want to put to work 
and improve at the same time, Sweet Clover can do the job for 
you. It thrives even on poor soils, provides high protein pasture 
during the first half or more of the summer, and is one of the 
best crops to plow under to add nitrogen and organic matter 
to the soil. One popular method is to sow in cornfields at last 
cultivation. You get pasture the following summer, and can 
then plow under for wheat. 
Cattle pasture is best the second year. Cows should be grazed 
when it’s about 6 to 10 inches high, depending on soil, size of 
herd, and acreage. Sometimes carries three cows per acre from 
May to midsummer. Keep growth down to a foot, give cows 
plenty of water and some dry roughage, and fence them in until 
they acquire a taste for it. Prized as fine bee pasture. 
The hay has about same feeding value as alfalfa of same 
quality, but is less desirable and more difficult to cure. Sweet 
Clover grows almost anywhere on soils not sour. Needs lime. 
Be SURE to INOCULATE seed for improving soil. Sow 
15 to 20 Ibs. per acre. 
WHITE BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER 
This fine soil builder lasts two years. Planted in the spring, it 
makes good growth by fall. Will reseed itself if left stand. 
Most popular variety in the East by far. Makes coarse hay. 
YELLOW BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER 
Like the white blossom, it is a biennial. Grows smaller tops— 
2 to 3 feet the first year, 4 to 5 the second. Stems are finer, thus 
preferred for hay or pasture. 
GRUNDY COUNTY SWEET CLOVER 
An early dwarf strain of the biennial white variety, maturing 
two weeks earlier. Finer stems, better hay, more palatable feed, 
but not as much top growth for turning under. 



Dairy cows enjoying good 
pasture on a growth of young 
sweet clover. 
“From the Sweet Clover seed 
I bought last spring, I got a 
number one stand. It is thick 
as hair on a dog’s back and 
looks good in December.”— 
M. L. Ressler, Blairsville, Pa. 
“Last spring you sold me 
some Hybrid seed corn. The 
results are so good that I now 
ask you to reserve 4 bushels 
of the same for next spring 
planting.”—Capt. Henry Wil- 
liams, Washington, D. C. - 
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