Sweet Clover: Utilization

Assistant Agronomist, Forage-Crop Investigations

FARMERS' BULLETIN 820 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief
WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1917

SWEET CLOVER may be utilized for feeding purposes, as pasturage, hay, or ensilage. With the possible exception of alfalfa on fertile soil, sweet clover, when properly handled, will furnish as much nutritious pasturage from early spring until late fall as any other legume. It seldom causes bloat.
Stock may refuse to eat sweet clover at first, but this distaste can be overcome by keeping them on a field of young plants for a few days.
As cattle crave dry roughage when pasturing on sweet clover, they should have access to it. Straw answers this purpose very well.
An acre of sweet clover ordinarily will support 20 to 30 sholes.