Show Plant Sweet Clover for Best Pastures Conclusion Arrived At by Soils Specialist By fly B. B P. P Reed Heed Extension Specialist Ohio State University Pastures of ot sweet clover are more than twice as good as ordinary bluegrass bluegrass blue blue- grass pastures A pasture containing contain contain- lag ing a good stand of or sweet clover will support rt two or thre pound 1000 stock units nails an acre I know of ot an acre of ot sweet do i dover ver pasture that produced 00 worth of ot milk at 5 6 cents a quart of ot a It nine-acre nine field In Putnam county seeded with a sweet clover mixture that furnished pasture for sheep and 50 no hogs throughout the growIng growing grow grow- ing lug season and these were unable to keep the growth down Another field of ot 17 acres last year supported 80 ewes with lambs Iambs 2 cows 70 winter pigs and 12 sows sews with spring pigs from spring to the middle mIddIo of ot August Hogs and dairy cattle pasturing on sweet clover require a n smaller dally daily grain ration and as a cash crop for tor seed sweet clover Is dependable do- do producing liberally whenever whenever whenever when when- ever grown Yields of sweet seed are much larger than are seed yields of other legumes Yields will average five bushels an acre and frequently as large larse as eight to twelve bushels Farm records have shown that a combination of live JIve stock and cash crop farming systems gives the highest highest high high- est returns for tor labor and capital In In- vested Sweet clover which produces produces produces pro pro- duces both a seed crop and pasture fits tIts Into such a 0 combination ad ad- |