Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — BENEFITS OF SWEET CLOVER FOR CATTLE [ARTICLE]

BENEFITS OF SWEET CLOVER FOR CATTLE

Unlike Alfalfa and Other Clover* Stock May Be Pastured Without Danger. (By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) One advantage of sweet clover foil pasture is that cattle and sheep are not as liable to bloat on It as they are on other clovers and alfalfa. It Is practically never safe to pasture cattle and sheep on green alfalfa but on sweet clover »they are comparatively safe throughout the season and In all kinds .of weather, The Tew cases of bloating on sweet clover pastnre reported have been under conditions of protracted wet weather. Some maintain that the freedom from bloat in this particular legume is due to the presence of cumarin in the plant. The tainting of mTlir when cows pasture cm sweet clover Is for the most part to early In the spring.