The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1913-12-18
Sweet Clover.


many are familiar and all are intense.
ly Interested The name alone at once
commands attention-.the farmers are
ever ready to hear OF any promise that
will brighten into something to per-
manently better their condition. and
during the trying year just past every
one has carefully caresscd lingering
hope and belief that through the dis.
pensation OF nature, or Gods proyi-
dence, a worldly visitor will come ere
the heart breaks and the purse is gone.
So now in spirit of highest enthusi-
asm and expectancy | wish to intro
duce White Blossom Sweet Glover to
YOU and recommend its use TO every
one who wishes to rise above a COM
mon short-grass farmer,
Years ago when boys, we bitterly
fought what will now be our best and
saving friend Az that time and in
that country, we did not consider it OF
any value--iust n troublesome weed
! fixed permanently in the soil. We did
not need 1t then, as red clover, timo.
thy, aud blue grass seem to answer the
purpose and furnished the hay and
pasture, so sweet clover was driven
! from the fields to the fence corners,
roads and creeks There it luxuriant-
ly grew as the years have flown, al.
most without thoughts and without
notice. But today it has not only
stepped into line with other farm
plants, but is crowned greatest OF for.
age plants, and will remain so indeh.
nitely.
This is the plant that in two or three
years will bring our low priced, beau.
tiful land to the attention of II craving
land owning nation not only enhance
and double present land values, but
same will become salable and the own
ers will rise from poverty to plenty,
reaching into prosperity.
We have fully demonstrated that
our land will yield heavy crops Of
maize, cane, kailr, broom corn, etc,,
Yet what the western Kansas and Oks
lahoma farmers want and must have,
is pasture, something that is not
myth or an anticipation, but some
thing dependable and permanent.
There Is not an acre of ground any
where within this territory so rough,
so poor, or SO gravelly, but that it will
grow sweet clover from knee to waist
high, but naturally, the better the
growing condition, the better the crop.
This plant Will grow and thrive dur
ing dry weather, while other crops are
daily burning, ii am grossly confirmed
in the belief that sweet clover is the
approaching opportunity, just outside
and anxiously waiting at every far
mer's door, not as guest TO be enter
tanned, but as true, loyal servant and
friend --Shall we open the door?
Sweet clover is a biennial, that is, it
lives and grows for two or three year,
after which it begins to die out unless
rcseeded or allowed to go to seed. 1t
can be sown any time but early spring
is preferable, as but few seeds falling
in the fall will germinate before
Spring and will even then continue TO
come up at intervals for two or three
years.
A proper seed bed would be formed
by discing the land now and leaving it
rough as possible with all trash on top
, In February or March, drill five pounds
of seed to the acre--do not harrow or
drag as the pulverized surface may
blow, but instead, if possible, throw
stalks, manure and all litter over the
sown gronnd. It can be successfully
sown in the snow on growing wheat.
In real grassy rough land first run
lister around through it the best you
can. Scatter seed in the furrows and
| follow with a One-section harrow.
When too rough to list, use hoe,
making hills to 10 feet apart, as con-
diuons offer. In two years time in
stead Of barren, wasteful, worthless
land, you will have transformed it
into place Of beauty and profit, and
most any wild sod will soon yield to
the constant encroachiBg Of this plant.
Every farmer can provide way to
have few acres for the hogs, calves.
COWS and work horses
Now, lister first SOW five acres, and
inside Of this, fence one acre for hogs
and calves, and the other four acres
will furnish more actual pasture than
your whole quarter section has been
producing--it certainly is pleasure to
the stock to be turned into lot with
something green to eat and at the
sama time a falling of safiafactinr