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Hubam Sweet Clover: a deservedly popular variety 
SWEET CLOVER 
Melilotus spp. 
No other legume crops are so well adapted to improve clay soils. Once regarded as 
common field weeds, the sweet clovers are now among the most valuable temporary 
pasture legumes and soil improvement crops to prepare land for establishing perma- 
nent pasture grasses. They provide excellent grazing in cool moist periods of the 
year and flowering plants for bees during the warm spring and summer. The deeply 
penetrating root systems absorb subsoil minerals and, afterwards decaying, leave them 
available for other plants; they will also tend to loosen packed soils into a mellow, 
even, uniform structure, easily worked. 
ANNUAL YELLOW BLOSSOM Melilotus indica 
An annual yellow flowering kind winter hardy only in the coastal soils. Chiefly 
used and best adapted as a cover crop to maintain good soil structure and fertility 
in orchards, used where an early quick growth is desired. Inexpensive to sow 
and the best sweet clover to plant with oats on bottom land. Matures early at 
the same time as oats therefore does not interfere with harvesting the oat crop. 
Plants spreading when young, erect 114-214 ft. when mature; stems fine, leafy, 
woody, but not tough. 
BIENNIAL WHITE SWEET Melilotus alba 
Extensively grown in north and northwest Texas grain and cattle grazing 
sections for its value as temporary pasture and a soil improvement crop. Will 
grow wherever alfalfa is adapted. Best used for spring planting in oats and on 
limestone soils too shallow for the best growth of alfalfa and Red Clover. Grows 
two years from one seeding and often attains a height of 10 ft. in the early spring 
of the second season. Plants develop fleshy deep penetrating roots. Highly 
prized as a bee plant. 
