SWEET CLOVER 
Enriches Your Land 
Makes Low Cost Hay 

Sweet Clover cannot be surpassed for soil improvement due to its 
rapidity of growth, large tonnage produced and its comparatively low seed cost. 
Sweet Clover as a Hay or Pasture Crop 

As a Soil Builder and Weed Control 
Sweet Clover grows on clay, sandy, alkaline, or gumbo soil. It prevents 

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. 
CANADA YELLOW 
Field Peas 
Field Peas are better suited to the Northwest 
than other annual legumes for building up 
worn out soils. They are usually grown with 
oats for hay, a combination equal in feeding 
value to clover hay. They contain more diges- 
tible crude protein and fat than alfalfa and 
corn. 
When they are grown with oats, they are 
threshed together, and easily separated with 
a fanning mill after threshing, thereby getting 
two crops from one operation. Sow 2 bushels 
of oats to 1% bushels of peas per acre. Drill 
the peas in 4 inches deep, as early as the 
ground can be worked. Then 2 or 3 weeks 
later, sow the oats, drilling it in the other way. 
If the oats are sown with the peas, they grow 
too rapidly, and check or smother the growth 
of the peas. Price: 5 lbs., $1.35 postpaid. For 
larger quantities, see Price List. 


Three to 4 tons of Sudan hay from one cutting. 
SUDAN GROWS QUICKLY 
One of the best annual forage plants for almost 
any locality. Sudan Grass thrives best on rich loam, 




but _has been successfully grown on almost every 
id < 1, from heavy clay to light sand. Cold, 
> not suited to Sudan Grass. Sudan 


Gr is a sorghum, and an annual, without under- 
ground root sprouts. It grows 4 to 5 feet high in 
drilled seedings, and 5 to 8 feet in cultivated rows. 
In favorable seasons, the growing period is long, 
and several cuttings can be obtained in one season. 
For hay it is ready to cut in 60 to 75 days, when it 
is in full head. It continues its growth, and in 40 
to 45 days it is ready for another cutting. 
Sudan Grass is an enormous yielder, producing 
3 or 4 tons of hay at the first cutting. The second 
cutting is lighter, and the hay is much finer, Live- 
stock of all kinds will eat the hay readily. 
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drifting of shifting sandy soils. The hardpan subsoil is loosened by the heavy 
penetrating roois, allowing the necessary aeration and depositing large quan- 
tities 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. 
Common Biennial Sweet Clovers 
Because white and yellow blossom Sweet 
Clover Seed has become so mixed in seed pro- 
duction areas, it is impossible to offer straight 
White Blossom or pure Yellow Blossom Sweet 
Clover Seed and still meet requirements of the 
Federal Seed Act. 
Therefore, all sweet clover will be sold merely 
as Biennial Sweet Clover. However, in ordering, 
if you will state your preference of either White 
or Yellow, we will do our best to select lots which 
will come as close to your preference as possible. 
In other words, if you prefer White Blossom, the 
seed will probably be from 50% _to# 75% White, 
and the balance Yellow Blossom. See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
Characteristics of Biennial Types 
Yellow Blossom: A more prostrate, lower grow- 
ing type, about two weeks earlier than white 
blossom and adapted to drier areas. 
Grow FSA TS FE 
How to Handle Sudan Grass 
DO NOT SOW SUDAN GRASS BEFORE 
CORN PLANTING TIME. Like corn, it is a warm 
weather crop. 
For hay, sow at the rate of 20 to 30 lbs. per 
acre, using a grain drill, and cover from one to 
one and one-half inches deep. Heavy seeding 
makes finer quality hay. 
The hay crop is harvested with a regular 
mower, when the Sudan Grass is fully headed 
out. It can be cut in the morning, and if the 
sun is bright, it should be raked up in the after- 
noon of the next day. After bunching, it is placed 
in cocks, just the same as alfalfa. After it has 
been thoroughly cured, it is removed from the 
cocks to the barn, or stacked. Because of the 
large amount of juice in the stems of Sudan 
Grass, the leaves cure first and the hay often 
appears ready to stack, when it is not. Therefore, 
the only sure way to avoid heating, is to allow 
Sudan Grass to remain in cocks long enough for 
the stems to become dry. The leaves are re- 
tained well, and if cut at the right stage will 
make a bright, leafy, sweet hay, of the very 
best quality. 
Plant Legumes with Sudan 
Sudan Grass grown with legyimes, such as 
soy beans, makes a well-balanced mixture for 
pasture, ensilage and hay. Sudan Grass grows 
stiffly erect, with stems strong enough to sup- 
port the vines and makes harvesting easier, by 
keeping them off the ground. It hastens curing, 
by preventing the beans rotting. 
Sudan Grass and soy beans, planted together, 
make a good hog pasture. Sow 25 to 30 lbs. 
Sudan Grass and the same quantity of soy beans 
to the acre, drilling in the seed with a grain drill. 
For quickest results, sow in rows 18 to 20 inches 
apart, and cultivate. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
Tall, White Blossom: Tall growing and produc- 
tive. Has a two weeks’ longer pasture season than 
yellow blossom. 
Dwarf White Blossom: This seed consists of 
approximately 75% Grundy County Sweet Clover, 
the dwarf white biennial type preferred by many. 
Its shorter growth, its finer stems with more 
leaves, makes better hay. It matures earlier, so 
hay can be cut before small grain harvest. The 
hay cures more rapidly and is very palatable. 
It produces seed earlier, well ahead of early 
frosts. It makes excellent pasture, but it does not 
last as long as the tall variety. 
Hubam Annual Clover 
An annual, white, resembling the biennial 
white in appearance, but making no resting 
buds, and producing seed the season of sow- 
ing. When a catch crop is wanted, especially 
when the field is to be Fall plowed, it is useful. 
FOR QUICK 
Pasture or Hay 
SWEET SUDAN GRASS 
Sweet Sudan is a new type of forage grass 
being offered as an improvement over common 
Sudan Grass. Sweet Sudan is the result of cross- 
ing common Sudan and Leoti Sorghum. It is 
sweeter, more resistant to disease, and higher 
yielding than common Sudan. The Sweet variety 
grows very much like ordinary Sudan, except that 
it stools more freely, grows taller, and the leaves 
are somewhat wider. In tests, Sweet Sudan has 
out-yielded ordinary Sudan, because it matures 
later, thereby producing more vegetative growth. 
Higher pasture yields are also obtained because 
cattle eat it down to the ground much closer. 
However, care must be used in pasturing, because 
once the crop is eaten down very close, it must 
be allowed to grow up 12 or 14 inches before 
being used again for pasture. 
It is used the same as ordinary Sudan for 
pasture or for hay. However, because of its 
sweetness, it is more palatable, and livestock 
like it better—therefore eat more of it. Seeding 
rates and harvesting procedures are the same 
as for regular Sudan. If you need an emergency 
hay or pasture crop this year, by all means try 
some of this new Sweet Sudan Grass. See Blue 
Figure Price List. 
QUICK 
Sow RAPE /o- pasture 
This profitable annual forage plant can be 
grown on land which has already produced an 
early grain crop. Sow it anytime, spring or 
summer, even in dry seasons. Makes good pas- 
ture for cattle, hogs or sheep. It prepares hogs 
or sheep for market better and quicker than any 
other forage. One acre pastures 12 to 15 sheep 
6 to 8 weeks. It’s ideal for weaning lambs, and 
brings spring pigs up to 200 lbs. at six months. 
Makes a mild, succulent cattle feed that won't 
flavor milk if properly pastured. Plant it alone, or 
with grain, soy beans, sudan grass, or cane. It’s 
cheap to sow: use 5 to 6 lbs. per acre broadcast, 
or 3 lbs. per acre in rows. We offer the popular 
Dwarf Essex variety. Postpaid: 5 lbs. $1.60. See 
Blue Figure Price List. 


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