. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A FIELD OF SWEET CLOVER JUST BEFORE BLOOM Falmouth what he thinks of sweet clover, and he will tell you such tales of rebuilt fortunes from a combina- tion of dairy cows and sweet clover as you never expect to hear. There are now shipped from the county about half a million pounds of seed yearly, besides thousands of dollars' worth of dairy products every week. They find that an average of 300 to 600 pounds of hulled seed per acre can be secured from the white variety and 500 to 700 pounds of the yellow. An average yield of from $40 to $100 per acre i
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A FIELD OF SWEET CLOVER JUST BEFORE BLOOM Falmouth what he thinks of sweet clover, and he will tell you such tales of rebuilt fortunes from a combina- tion of dairy cows and sweet clover as you never expect to hear. There are now shipped from the county about half a million pounds of seed yearly, besides thousands of dollars' worth of dairy products every week. They find that an average of 300 to 600 pounds of hulled seed per acre can be secured from the white variety and 500 to 700 pounds of the yellow. An average yield of from $40 to $100 per acre is the return from the sweet clover, according to local reports picked up on the street. Now one finds evidences of prosperity on ev- ery hand. The farmers have fine homes, automobiles, and money in the bank. Soil Requirements There is no forage plant that will succeed on such a wide range of soil conditions as will sweet clover. It will succeed under unfavorable con- ditions on the heaviest clays and on light sand. It will grow on hardpan. in the foreground has just been grazed by stock which is no turned into the field of sweet clover in the background. and on gravelly and stony land un- suited for general cultivation. It I does well on soils too wet for either alfalfa or red clover and on soils so dry that neither of these will sue- I eeed. It will grow on land so poor j and devoid of humus that no other j clover or grass will grow. It is the j greatest soil builder known, and now that the public has finally accepted the fact that it is not a noxious ! weed, it will shortly be used to re- deem untold thousands of otherwise waste land. It grows all the way J from sea level to the mountain sides, I and is spreading in the semi-arid sec- tions of Colorado and other western ] States, wdiere the annual rainfall is very light. In the October number of this Jour- i nal has already been told the story of the sweet clover region of Ala- bama and Mississippi. In those States sweet clov
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