SWEET CLOVER.
IS IT NOXIOUS. • A Canterbury subscriber writes to the Farmers’ Union Advocate as follows :• —“ Could you inform me, through your valuable paper, whether sweet clover is a noxious weed ? I have had some given me as honey producing, but I have since been told t hat it is a weed.” There are three kinds of sweet clover (melitotus officinalis, melilotus alba, and melilotds arvensis), neither of which are scheduled as noxious weeds. The two former are looked upon as second class forage, but are specially Food forage for bees All sweet clovers are good for green manuring, owing to their abundant production of n trogen nodules. Possibly our southern friend refersfo sweet vernal. T iis is a grass which has come to bo regarded as noxious.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43367, 3 September 1908, Page 4
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128SWEET CLOVER. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43367, 3 September 1908, Page 4
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