Sweet clover, at one time considered a noxious weed, is rapidly coming into common use for the following advantages that it possesses:
1) It will grow in almost any type of soil. 2) It produces a lot of excellent feed—more than can be produced by some of the other crops. 3) Sweet clover is well liked by sheep, swine, horses and cattle after they become accustomed to it. 4) Sweet clover is a good preparatory crop for alfalfa, for it opens up the soil and if the sweet clover was inoculated it provides in abundance the bacteria essential for alfalfa production. 5) As an improver of the soil, sweet clover has hardly any equal. Note deep penetrating root characteristics of the sweet clover plant. And also note the abundance of nodules formed by the free nitrogen-gathering bacteria. 6) Sweet clover is a biennial and needs to be resown only every two years. This is an advantage over many other crops that have to be sown or planted annually.