Show SWEET CLOVER IS FINE AS PASTURE best legume crop for all classes of stock dy J 3 extension llva sloth specialist kanaan state agricultural collece i sweet clover Is the best legume pas ture crop for all classes 0 live stock in kansas with the exception of al falfa for bogs and even for hogs it Is a very good for alfalfa it will carry more stock per acre than any other tame or wild crop grown in kansas while there have been in the past few years a few cases of sweet clover bloat it should not be condemned as a pasture crop on account of an occasional bloat as any rank succulent pasture such as rye wheat or even blue grass will occasionally cause bloating when first turning cattle or other stock in on sweet clover it may be well to gradually accustom them to it if they are being turned in on a rank growth they should be fed some dry feed first so they will not gorge themselves in pasturing the first seasons growth it Is advisable to let the plant get a good start of about ten inches after this it may be pastured down as much as the top growth will permit until frost and even then the excess growth may bo grazed off pas he second season may start as soon as the stock can get a bite of it it Is the first pasture crop in the spring being two or three weeks ear her alian native pasture sweet do ver will furnish two to four times as much grazing per acre as native pasture it should be grazed heively enough throughout the seison to prevent it from getting coarse and woody if not grazed close to the ground it will reseed itself and come on again the next year feeders favor silage for cattle and sheep feeders of beef cattle and sheep have even more reasons to build a silo and feed silage than the dairymen according to experiment station results in all sections of the country yet nearly all beoo silage while the majority of beet men aid sheep men do not after su the results of all experimental data available prof F B morrison Morr lson director of th s new york experiment station finds that the av on value of silage for dairy cows s approximately one third that of good mixed hay while the per acre yield of silage Is four or five times greater than that of hay for beef cattle he finds silage worth half as much per ion as clover hay and for sheep more than hilf a much in an average of 20 trials with two year old steers gain on silage fed cattle cost 1 22 cents a hundred less than on steers fed no silage in these tests a ton of silage replaced 27 pounds of concentrates and pounds of clover hay professor morrison Morr lson who has long hean considered one of the foremost feeding authorities of the country feels that cattle and sheep feeders like the dairymen could get more money for their corn crop and make greater profits on live stock by feeding silage in one corn belt state 78 per cent of the members of dairy herd improvement associations own silos as compared to 12 per cent of all the farmers of lie state |