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Show CLOVER MIXTURE FOR SWINE Combination of Alslke With Either Common Red or Mammoth Gives Good Results. By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) A mixture of alsike with either the common red or the mammoth clover will give more and better pasture than any one of them. The value of the pasture depends on the number of leaves rather than on the stems. The per cent, of the leaves Is greater in alsike than in the medium and the medium has a larger per cent, o) leaves than has the mammoth, when compared with the stem. This alsike is finer in stem, too, and renews leafy growth after eaten down better than do the ranker clovers. It pays to sow about ten pounds of medium and five pounds of alsike to each acre. I have noticed that shoats prefer alfalfa to any of these clovers. This suggests that they would enjoy a mixture mix-ture of clover including alfalfa. As It is less hardy at the start it might be well to defer sowing the alfalfa until the season of severe frost has passed. Once established, alfalfa will endure as much hardship as any of the clovers clo-vers named, yet none of them will endure en-dure grazing when frozen or -even when covered with frost. A little care to keep frost off until the frost has disappeared will prolong the usefulness use-fulness of the clover pasture. Delay in turning on in the spring until May will be profitable. |