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Sweet Clover: Utilization

Chapter 3: SWEET CLOVER: UTILIZATION.[1]
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The bulletin surveys practical uses and management of sweet clover, covering its value as pasture, hay, silage, soiling, and a feed crop while describing handling to minimize bloat and secure good hay (cutting before flowering and leaving high stubble). It explains establishment and grazing practices that provide season-long forage, reports silage performance comparable to alfalfa, and emphasizes the crop's role in short rotations as a soil improver through deep roots, added humus, and nitrogen enrichment that benefits succeeding crops. Practical harvesting and curing guidance and the plant's usefulness as an abundant nectar source for honey production are also discussed.

SWEET CLOVER: UTILIZATION.[1]

[1] The growing of this crop has been discussed in a previous publication, Farmers' Bulletin 797, entitled "Sweet Clover; Growing the Crop."


CONTENTS.

Page.
General statement of the uses of sweet clover 3
Sweet clover as a pasture crop 4
Sweet clover hay 10
Sweet clover as a silage crop 20
Sweet clover as a soiling crop 22
Sweet clover as a feed 23
Sweet clover as a soil-improving crop 28
Sweet clover in rotations 31
Sweet clover as a honey plant 32