Show Imn improved roved clover growing methods now possible to grow crop on sour soil with use ue of little lime lime prepared by the united states department ot 0 Arri culture sweet clover has so recently been added to the list of important amerlean american forage crops that new methods of growing and using the plant are ar constantly being found L IV kephart agronomist of the united states Depart department of agriculture points out that new methea metho fla have made it possible to grow sweet clover on slightly sour soil with very verb little lime to get better stands by double inoculation to obtain satisfactory results with seed cowed ln in the n winter inter and with swe sweet flaver mired with alth grasses in pasture and to feed green sweet clover to live stock kock so hs as to cause the minimum af pf of bloating sour soil sweet clover may be grown successfully on soll soil ohly slightly sour with a 11 relatively small quantity of lime by mixing it with the seed usually about or or COO pounds of hydrated lime with the seed ia enough gh for one acre mixture Is sown through a f fertilizer erthe er attachment of a wheat dr drill ill applied in this way tho the lime falls falla close to fo tile the se seed edW mr IC kephart ephart says and it Is available to the seedlings apparently the seedling stage Is the critical time with respect to lime requirement and it if the seedlings become established the plants thrive slow germination to overcome slowness of germination of sweet clover seed seed may be scarified fied for late into spring or summer planting but growers have found that the seed in the hull Is better for late fall fal or winter and will ordinarily germinate by warm weather mr ke kephart P says in most of the central and eastern P tates states seed gead se scattered t on a n frozen wheat field in january or february has proved to ia be one of the most reliable methods of of obtaining a stand the binder Is being used to bundle sweet clover when cut for hay thus thua improving the curing at reano reasonable cost band and clover as s used in pasture pastura mixtures with grasses in some sections increasing tile the pasturing season and improving the grazing Far farmers have learned to reduce leduca the danger of live elvei stock bloating while feeding on green sweet clover by feeding some hay before turning stock on sweet clover pasture pastur 6 bothe so the anti animals nals will not porge irge th themselves ent selve oh this plant |