SWEET CLOVER 
Enriches Your Land 
Makes Low Cost Hay 
igs? 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 
Sweet Clover is a leading crop in the United States, 
As a biennial 
legume, it fits in with any crop rotation, besides yielding a very large ~ ; ss . 
return of hay and pasture. Sweet Clover may grow one to three feet 
the first season and may be clipped for hay or pastured lightly if it 
makes a good growth. During the second. year it grows very dense 
and rapidly and if cut for hay, it should be done early in the season, 
before the blossoms appear and the stems become woody. 
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. 
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. 
Thereijore, all sweet clover will be sold merely 
as Biennial Sweet Clover. However, state your 
references and we will select lots containing 
9% tc 85% of the type you prefer. 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. 
Tall, White Blossom: Tall growing and produc- 
tive. Has a two weeks’ longer pasture season than 
yellow blossom. 
Hubam Annual Clover 
An annuai, 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. 
QUICK 
Sow RAPE for 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 beams, 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. $1.90. See 
Blue Figure Price List. 
Three to 4 tons of Sudan hay from one cutting. 
As a Soil Builder and Weed Control 
Sweet Clover grows on clay, sandy, alkaline, or gumbo soil. It prevents 
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 
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after planting. Inoculate with Nitragin. 
New Madrid 
Biennial Sweet Clover 
A new, earlier maturing strain of Yellow Blos- 
som type. Madrid’s first year's growth shows 
greater, early seedling vigor, and its forage is 
more resistant to fall frosts than that of the 
Common Yellow Blossom. Its second year’s 
growth is upright, medium in height, and 
matures slightly later. Madrid is a heavy 
producer, of seed which matures early enough 
to make a profitable crop in most areas. Trials 
show higher yields of both hay and pasture, 
than from ordinary Yellow Blossom. Madrid is 
now recognized through out the Midwest as a 
superior strain, and seed is scarce, so order 
early. See Blue Figure Price List. 
(17.7 SUDAN GRASS 
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 atfter- 
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 
pest quality. 
Plant Legumes with Sudan 
Sudan Grass grown with legumes, 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. 
New Evergreen 
White Blossom Sweet 
The remarkable new sweet clover developed 
at Ohio's Experiment Station. It germinates 
quickly, shows more rapid early growth, 
matures later and produces 70% more forage 
than common White Blossom during the first 
year, and 35% more the second year! Ever- 
green starts growth earlier the second year, 
providing earlier pasture, and it can be pas- 
tured fully three weeks longer than Common 
White Blossom! It's also a heavier seed pro- 
ducer under favorable conditions, and grows 
more upright, producing extremely rank 
growth, so it should be clipped back early if 
used for seed production. It thrives in most all 
areas except in arid regions. Seed supply 
limited. See Blue Figure Price List. 
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 1s 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. 
NEW PIPER SUDAN 
A new Sudan variety released by Wiscon- 
sin's Experiment Station in 1951. Piper yields 
a higher tonnage of forage, is resistant to 
diseases, and produces good regrowth after 
pasturing. Less poisoning occurs when live- 
stock are pastured on Piper Sudan, than when 
pastured on commercial types, because of 
lower hydrocyanic acid potential. Hovrzever 
it's still wise to use caution when using any 
Sudan for pasture. Piper is recommended as 
a forage crop in northern, central and western 
states. The seed. supply is still limited, but 
we recommend trying a small acreage to 
compare with regular or sweet Sudan. You 
may be surprised with results from Piper. 
Order early. See Blue Figure Price List. 
FPARMER SEED AND NURSERY CO., 
Faribault, 
Minnesota Page 59 
