Sweet Clover: Growing the Crop

The bulletin provides practical guidance for cultivating sweet clover, surveying white, biennial yellow, and annual yellow types and their regional suitability; explains soil and climatic requirements, lime and inoculation needs, seeding methods, seed treatment (hulling, scarifying), use of nurse crops, rates and timing, fertilization, and stand management during first and second seasons; discusses uses as forage, hay, pasture, and green manure, resistance to drought and alkali, and methods for inoculation (soil-transfer and pure-culture) and eradication; emphasizes avoiding acid soils, ensuring viable seed and proper seedbed preparation to secure successful stands.