Show buckwheat Is too dense for use as nurse crop buckwheat grows too densely and Is too heavily leaved to be a satisfactory nurse crop sweet clover sown with it would be choked back bach badly an and probably would not make a good stand the sweet clover would do much better if sown with a nurse crop of barley or early oats A basli bused d and a half to the acre of either makes at skis satisfactory factory nurse crop and will give a good yield sow 12 to 15 pounds of biennial white sweet clover per acre for a good stand |