Washington, D. C.
April, 1917
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THE cultivation of sweet clover should be preceded by a through knowledge of the requirements for obtaining a stand.
The white species comprises a very large percentage of the present acreage of sweet clover.
Annual yellow sweet clover should be sown in no portion of the United States except the South and Southwest, and then only as a cover of green-manure crop.
Sweet clover is being cultivated in practically every State in the Union. At the present time the largest acreage is found in The western North-Central States and in the Mountain States.
Sweet clover is adapted to a wider range of climatic conditions than any of the true clovers, and possibly alfalfa.
Sweet clover will grow on practically all soil types to be found in this country, provided the soil is not acid and is well inoculated.