Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Sandhills May Possibly Profit in
Sweet Glover.
SEED YIELDS GREAT RETURNS
Dorsey JeypOldt, Live Wire at Her
shey, Neb., HRrVests $4,000
worth Along the high
ways aud bitches.

Tho great valley OF the North Plato
river. Just northwest Of North Platte,
Neb.. produced ono crop during tho last
summer THAI no man planted. II was
a crop that no man cultivated. IL was n
crop that no man tended. More than
this, Il was crop that most Of the
farmers thought 20 be a nuisance.
Yet It yielded $4,000
II was a crop OF sweet clover seed
For years farmers and ranohers have
regarded sweet clover as nuisance
worse than Russian thistles. Not that II
contained any briers, but Il was consld-
cred absolutely good for nothing except
to take up good ground room where
alfalfa should have been growing 1t got
into the fields with the alfalfa seed In
various places and was very hard 20
drive out Recently the experiment sta
tions throughout the country have dis
covered that II actually has even greater
feed values than alfalfa II cut at the
proper time when it is younB and quite
tender.
SO, while farmers In the Platte val
ley were still wishing they could rid their
farms OF this pest Dorsey Lcypoldt OF
Hershey, Neb., good roads booster and
general live wire. got out into the coun-
try ami volunteered to cut the stuff away
from the bitches. At the same time as a
good roads man he made II a point TO
cut the stuff off the roads, where 1t was
growing to he a nuisance. He found that
since the experiment stations have made
their reports on the feed value OF the
sweet clover a big demand has been Gre
ated for the seed. So. he hauled the stuff
together and had Il threshed. Soon he
began to ship the seed to eastern markets
at good healthy prices, receiving over So
bushel for II.
| In all he is said TO have sold some sl9,
900 worth OF the seed which he shipped
out OF the North Platte valley. few
other live wires In the neighborhood took
up the work and cut some OF their own.
So. in all, there was $4,000 worth OF sweet
| clover seed shipped out OF there. II was
not all clear profit, as there was consid-
erable expense TO driving miles for "a load
1 OF the hay which had TO be brought back
to the threshing machine or alfalfa huller
to be threshed. But at that there was
a healthy profit, for It cost nothing but
the harvesting.
Land owners In that locality are now
| very enthusiastic over the prospects OF
sweet clover. As It grows readily In the
poorest Soils as we'll as In the best OF
soils, many In that locality are talking
OF introducing It In the sandhllls. There
Is some talk OF trying to start II In the
hills on the forest reserve, whore the gov
ernment has just given away some "
farms I'm a land lottery. IL Is believed
that II this could be made to do well II
the sandhlls II would not only make
these hills valuable as producers OF rough
feed for cattle. but that II would fer
tilize the sand In such way as TO make
Il productive OF other crops In few
years. Tho fertilizng value OF swee
clover, according to the reports OF the ex
pertinent stations, is greater than that o
alfalfa or clover.
r. A. Higgins ls to start very soon II
the building OF his new fifteen-roon
home at Thirty-ninth and Harney streets