Show plant sweet clover for best pastures conclusion arrived at by soils specialist by ta n P need extension specialist ohio state university pastures of sweet clover are more than twice ns as good as ordinary bluegrass pastures A pasture containing a good stand of sweet clover will support two or three 1000 pound livestock units an acre I 1 know of an acre of sweet clover pasture that produced GO worth of milk at 5 cents a quart of a nine acre field in putnam county seeded with a sweet clover mixture that furnished pasture for sheep and CO 50 hogs hogg throughout the growing season and these were unable to keep the growth crowth down another field of 17 acres last year supported 80 ewes with lambs 2 cows 70 winter pigs and 12 sown with spring pigs from spring to the middle of august hogs and dairy cattle pasturing on albeet clover require a smaller dally daily grain ration and as a cash crop for seed sweet clover Is dependable producing liberally whenever grown yields of sweet clover seed are much larger than are seed yields of other legumes yields will average five bushels bus liels an acre and frequently as large as aa eight to twelve bushels farm records have shown that a combination of live stock and cash crop farming systems give the highest returns for labor and capital invested sweet clover which produces both a seed crop and pasture fits into such a combination adm admirably irakly |