The Truth about Sweet Clover; Its Value for Honey, for Plowing Under, as a Fertilizer of the Soil, and Food for Horses, Cattle, Swine, Sheep, Etc. and

by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. ... Testimonials from all over the World in Regard to the Value of the Sweet-clover Plant. SWEET CLOVER; WILL FARM STOCK EAT IT? Dear have sown sweet clover in a small way several times, but my sheep (about 100) always eat it so close that it dies. I will try to keep the sheep off. Dutch, Va., July 3. W. C. Jackson. SOWING THE SEED WITH OATS. I have three acres of sweet clover, the white variety, which 1 sowed last year with oats. It is a fine growth, and has been blooming, and the bees have been literally swarming on it for several weeks. It is seeding very heavy, and is free from any thing else. Prophetstown, 111. Henry Stewart. SWEET CLOVER IN ILLINOIS. Sweet clover is one of the best honey-plants that I have. I am glad that some people don't know how to kill it. I have no trouble in killing it where I don't want it to grow. Stock eat it here. When pastures are short the stock are herded on the road, and they eat it as quickly as anything else. Sheffield, 111. A. L. Kildow. SWEET CLOVER FOR BEES AND FARM STOCK. I finished extracting on the 15th. I got 2500 lbs. of sweet-clover honey from 60 hives. There is but little if any white-clover honey mixed with it. I have thirty acres of this sweet clover on my place. It is good cattle pasture in the early spring and late fall. Onawa, Iowa, Aug. 16, 1006. S. R. Fletcher. SWEET CLOVER FOR ALKALI SOILS. We have nothing so valuable here as sweet clover to enrich alkali lands. Wherever it has grown for two or more years it has left a rich soil. I will sow it on all my alkali land this spring that I can get water on, as it needs irrigation here the same as alfalfa. A. A. Brown. Gazelle, Cal., Jan. 30, 1899. SWEET CLOVER FOR COWS. What kind of cattle does Mr. Sawyer have, anyhow? If I had a cow that would not ea...

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First published March 27, 2010