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Show SWEET CLOVER GAINS FAVOR Increasing Attention Being Given Crop as Forage Plant Used Successfully Success-fully as Cnsllage. (I'rcparcd by tho United Htntes Department Depart-ment ot Agriculture.) For tho past two )ears Increasing attontlon has been given to sweet clover us a forage plant. County agricultural agri-cultural agents In several states last year gave thu crop somo attention In an experimental wny. Thoso In Kan-huh Kan-huh and South Dakota wore particularly particu-larly active, und tho results wero ho iiatlsfactory that thu area seeded this year has been onormously increased. A ruport from Ai'ou county, Kansas, status that moro than -',000 acres wero peodod in that county this jear. Last year a rannur in Clinton county, Iowa, conducted an excursion to a farm on which Is grown nnnually CO to 100 acres of Hweot clover for huy and pasture pas-ture on land worth moro thnn $100 per acre. On Juno 3 und 10 this oar two Illinois county agents Joined In nn excursion to a 300-,icro sweet clover farm In Oglo county. Illinois. Ono county sent 21 automobiles with 109 rarmers repretentlng 1!G townships. A total of 15 nutomobllos made up tho trulu. Among tho Interesting things dono on tho farm visited Is tho pasturing pas-turing of 00 head of cuttle on 40 acres of Hweot cloor. Tho closer is also used successfully as ensilage. |