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Show Sweet Clover as Feeler. Some of the dry farmers out on the plains who entertain the idea that they cannot grow alfalfa might try sweet clover as a feeler crop. The two plants are c'.oser kin than cousins. cous-ins. Both are nodule bacteria-producing plants, and what is more, they have the same bacteria. It is quite reasonable, therefore, to conclude that wherever sweet clover grows alfalla will also, but it is much easier to get a start of sweet clover, for it seems to be indigenous to a large proportion of the plains region, although al-though the plant was originally Introduced Intro-duced by man. |