Show APOLO APOLOGIES aIES ARE DUE TO CROP FORMERLY CALLED NUISANCE farmers slandered sweet clover before value seen farmers of ohio and other states really owe an ail apology to sweet clover for years they slandered it as a weed mid a nuisance while they struggled to eradicate it from their farms now they are finding it one of the most valuable legumes available for their crop rotations because the sweet clover grows persistently in practically any kind of sot soll sand clay impoverished ed or rich enst so it contains lime the great majority of agriculture ests concluded it must be a weed because no crop of any value would grow under such conditions and at the same time resist drouth drout li poor drainage and disease fifteen years ago one would have traveled far to find 1000 acres of sweet clover sown as a crop in ohio today a single county has acres and the entire state over acres says a bulletin on sweet clover written by dr C J willard Wll lard of the farm crops department dep arti nent of the onto state university the bulletin Is issued by the agricultural extension service of the university in it doctor willard points out that sweet clover Is valuable not only because it grows anywhere if lime ilme Is iq present in the soil but because it produces enormous yields of bay and pasturage and a crop of it Is equal to the application of 20 tons of farm manure in improvement of the soll soil alfalfa Is the only competitor of sweet clover when it comes to yields of hay and pasturage on soils containing time lime or to which lime can be added sweet clover Is so much the better soil builder that it stands alone says the th bulletin |