276 N. H. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Office Report, for 1852-3, I find some twenty-five or more 

 responses, from many of the different States, most of Avliich 

 I will copy : — 



Alabama. I. W. says, '•! do not tliink that red clover is 

 in any way injurious to horses." 



Greenville, S. C. H. M. E. has grown clover in South 

 Carolina for twenty years ; says clover should be cut when 

 free from external moisture, cured mostly in the cock. If 

 too old or wet when cut, stock are not fond of it; but the 

 great avidity with which they devour it when properly 

 cured, fully compensates for all the care necessary to be 

 taken; and therefore we must always keep it sweet, for 

 when sour it will salivate a horse or mule severely. And 

 this is one reason that persons have supposed that it was 

 injurious to horses. And one other way it will injure 

 horses, as will any other hoy or corn-blades, viz : when it 

 heats in curing. By being bulked to soon, it gets mouldy 

 and dusty, and if fed to a horse in this state, it will pro- 

 duce a cough, and finally bellows, phthisic, (or the heaves, 

 as we Yankees call it,) but in no other way does it injure 

 any stock. 



Virginia, Fauquier Co. J. L. B. says : ''' Green clover 

 is a preferable grass for raising colts, but not good for 

 work-horses, as they cannot endure heat and fatigue when 

 feeding on red clover." 



Dixmont, Me. AV. U. Jr., says : " My experience does 

 not show that red clover is injurious to horses; on the con- 

 trary, it is considered a favorite feed for them." 



Bloomficld, Me. E. W. says: " Red clover is not mate- 

 rially injurious to horses, providing they have it all sweet. 

 The great danger lies in the leaves of early summer. They 

 die as the clover shades them, and become dust, which the 

 horse inhales, sadly to his cost and value." 



West Rupert, Vt. LP. says: "He has no experience 

 to show that red clover is detrimental to horses." 



Newport Co., 11. I. D. F. '' docs not think red clover 

 injurious to horses." 



