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SWEET CLOVER | 
Early in the season it looked as though there would be a very large crop of sweet clover 
seed. Later when the seed began to set rain and wind destroyed most of the crop, leaving 
only a portion of the crop which as a whole is not as good quality as the average crop of 
the past. Some discoloration and germination not up to normal, but we have selected 
the very best of the crop and can give you as good new crop seed as there is. Present 
prices may look high but in checking up an old price list, during the World War we sold sweet 
clover at $24.00 per bushel. 
With the increased acreage to go into legumes, and with the low price of Sweet Clover, 
a large amount will be used. Every year sees more liming which puts this much more land 
into condition to produce Sweet Clover profitably. Every Sweet Clover plant is a nitrogen 
factory producing nitrogen at the very lowest cost. 
An acre of a good stand of Sweet Clover will produce as much nitrogen as 16 loads of 
manure contain; as much phosphorus as is contained in 113 pounds of phosphate; and as much 
potassium as is contained in 112 pounds of potash—all of this for about $1.00,the cost of 
the seed, 
You gain nothing by letting a big top growth grow, before plowing it under. A Sweet 
Clover plant is a biennial plant, and the nature of it is to store plant food in the roots the 
first year. The second year adds but little more nitrogen, just translocates this plant food 
to the top growth. The Sweet Clover plant early in the spring is a heavy user of moistuve. 
In fact it just pumps the moisture right out of the soil, and if you have a dry season, you 
may have a very, very poor crop. This is one advantage of fall plowing,-.if properly worked .ou 
get a good mulch, which will hold moisture better than spring plowing. 
GRUNDY COUNTY WHITE BLOSSOM 
An early White Blossom, dwarf variety, which was developed in Grundy County about 
twenty years ago. This year we have a very large crop which was produced in this section 
which is near us at a considerably lower price. Much easier to harvest than the Big White or 
Yellow Blossom, and produces a big crop of seed. On rich black soil is often seeded in wheat, 
as does not grow as tall and cause as much trouble in harvesting as the Big White. Not so 
well adapted to the thinner soils. Better sow the Big White or Yellow Blossom on thin soil. 
For price see price list enclosed. 
YELLOW BLOSSOM SWEET CLOVER 
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover seems much hardier than any other variety of Sweet 
Clover. Every year there seems to be more and more of it used. Does not grow as tall as the 
big white, grows a leafier, low down, bushier plant and very hardy. Usually matures ten to 
fifteen days earlier than the Big White. For price see price list enclosed. 
ALL SWEET CLOVER MORE OR LESS MIXED 
In selling sweet clover we do not guarantee it to be either pure white or pure yellow. 
As it is impossible for anyone to distinguish definitely one variety from another by the seed, 
we sell types only, for example WHITE TYPE, YELLOW TYPE, which give you the pre- 
dominating color. There is very little difference in the value of the big white or the big 
yellow, and in sowing sweet clover on our own farms we mix, about half and half. Yellow 
is earlier and when it blooms, you think you have all yellow, but wait two or three weeks 
and you think the same field was all seeded to white blossom. 
CUT NURSE CROP HIGH 
We do not recommend sowing a nurse crop in sowing Alfalfa, but with all kinds of 
Sweet Clover where sown with Oats or Rye, we advise cutting the stubble high. At the Ohio 
Experiment Station where oats were cut about the 10th of July, 14 to 18 inches high. By No- 
vember 1 the weight of roots was 2,760 pounds per acre dry weight, and top growth 1,900 
pounds. Where cut on the same date, 7 to 8 inches high, root weight was only 1,830 pounds, top 
growth 1,130 pounds. Where mowed with a mowing machine on same date, 2 to 3 inches high, 
root weight was 1,090 pounds, top growth 630 pounds or worth only about one-third as much 
as the highest cutting. 
