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HUBAM GLOVER 
(Annual White Flowering Sweetclover) 
A Main Crop for the Mineral-Rich Lime 
Soils of the South and Southwest 
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Hubam Clover is an annual fall, winter and spring crop for the 
mineral-rich limestone soils of North America. It is the first sweet- 
clover as the result of natural selection out of the Biennial White 
Flowering kind to become adapted to the lime soils of the cotton 
lands of the South and Southwest, and is widely adapted for soil 
building, grazing and green manure. The deep penetrating root 
system makes available those sub-soil minerals so essential to the 
normal development, growth, and production of plant life, animal 
life, and beneficial bacteria. Stiff soils become loose and easy to 
work, and an increased moisture-holding capacity of upper layer 
of soil results. 
Hubam is not a new clover. It was first found growing wild in 
Alabama about 1900 or 1906, and was given the name of Hubam 
about 1912 or 1914. Hubam is rapidly increasing in popularity due 
to the length of time over which it is adaptable for planting and 
it has many uses. It may be successfully planted from September to 
May, growing thick and:leafy during long periods of cool moist 
weather, the most rapid growth developing as warm weather ap- 
proaches. 
Hubam in Crop Rotation 
In general, it is grown as a main crop in rotation with other cul- 
tivated ciops such as corn, cotton, oats and sorghums. Two weeks 
before first corn planting date is the most practical time to sow. 
Hubam supplies spring and summer grazing, to be followed by 
late summer or fall-seeded crops of sorghums and sudan. 
It follows plowed-out sod of Rhodes grass or Bermuda grass 
to improve sod-bound conditions of the soil. Conversely Hubam 
prepares soil for perennial grasses such as Rhodes grass, blue stem, 
bermuda, grama grasses, and others. 

—Soil Conservation Service 
TWO MONTHS’ GROWTH OF HUBAM READY TO PLOW 
UNDER. HOLDS THE SOIL DURING SPRING MONTHS. 
