Show Sweet S Clover Is Poor Pasture for Heifers Although sweet clover has been demonstrated to be one of ot most productive pasture crops available to Wisconsin farmers and has made possible pos pos- possible sible good milk now how from dah dairy cows during dry seasons when other crops are aloe less productive the crop has made madea a poor showing allowing durin during a year four-year trial with yearling heifers according to G. G B B. B Mortimer and I I. I W W. W Rupel specialIsts specialists specialists special special- at nt the Wisconsin college of agri agri- culture In the experiment three lots of live five dairy heifers were used to compare the pasture value alue of sweet clover a n mixed rotation pa pasture ture of timothy and some alsike clover and a permanent pasture posture of ot Kentucky Kentuck bluegrass and top A Average figures for tor the period showed a gain three times as great on bluegrass bluegrass' rasS' rasS as on sweet clover The gains on the rotation pasture were more than twice those on the sweet clover The Investigators point out that the poor showing of ot the sweet clover Is undoubtedly due to the lower palata palata- of the crop The results also suggest the possibility that rood good crop cropland cropland land may profitably be devoted to permanent permanent permanent per per- I manent pasture |