Excerpt from The Truth About Sweet Clover: Its Value for Honey, for Plowing Under, as a Fertilizer of the Soil, and Food for Horses, Cattle, Swine, Sheep, and as a Valuable Plant for the Introduction of Nitrogen-Gathering Bacteria
There has been so much discussion in regard to. -sweet clover for years past that I have thought best, to present in this booklet some testimonials from bee-keepers and others from many widely separated localities. There are certain people who will have it that sweet clover is a noxious weed, and that its spread should be restrained by law; in fact, there have been laws and ordinances passed requiring farmers and others to mow it down along the roadsides; but at the present time I believe our best agriculturists regard it as no more a weed than many of the other clovers; and it is just as easy to eradicate it by plowing it under. Our Ohio Experiment Station has at different times expressed its opinion in regard to it; and below is a statement recently furnished us from the present able director, Professor Thorne:
Sweet Clover, may it under any circumstances be classed as a noxious weed?
Mr. Root: - When you get out a new circular I wish you would cut out the statement that this station has ever classed sweet clover as a noxious weed. Away back in 1877-78, I called attention, through Farm and Fireside, in an article which was copied generally in the agricultural press, to the fact that this plant grows only where nothing else will grow, and appears to be designed as a renovator of exhausted soils. I have never permitted it to be classed as a noxious weed while in control of this station.
Just at present sweet clover is coming out more prominently than ever before, because it is found to be one of the best of the legumes for introducing the nitrogen bacteria that have the little nodules on the roots of the plants.
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