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profit accrues ; and when this plant is once cstablishefl, it will re- 

 main for many years in full vigor, and produce annually, a great 

 quantity of herbage of excellent quality. Four years ago, I ob- 

 tained from Messrs. Lawson of Edinburg, five pounds of seeds, which 

 I sowed to one acre, and as I was cautious in my experiment, mixed 

 it with about two or three pounds of Timothy. It stood the winter 

 admirably, and I cut the following year, certainly not less than. 

 l/iree tons of the finest clover hay I had ever been. In the end of 

 June, and before ripening its seeds, I expected to have the second 

 crop run to seed, which it did not, but produced an unparalleled mass 

 of feed, so close and even and about one foot in length, that I could 

 have fancied it would bear one up to walk over it. The second year 

 I had an equal quantity mixed with Timothy, and I found the clo- 

 ver, when the seeds ripened, to suit the time for cutting the Timo- 

 thy exactly, without blackening and going to waste, as the common 

 red does. I consider this as its greatest recommendation, for we 

 all know well, that red clover and Timothy, the usual mixture 

 sown, is on account of the inequality of ripening, but ill suited for 

 producing an abundant crop of first class hay^ as the one or the 

 other must be partially sacrificed. The third cutting, last year, was 

 heavier than either of the former, such as only a first rate machine 

 could have given the conp de grace to. By shaking, 1 got as much 

 seed as has covered four acres with as fine a plant, and as thick as 

 can be expected, and I feel confident in taking twelve tons of hay 

 from the piece this year.'" 



In a later communication, of July 6, 1858, accompanying a sam- 

 ple of the clover sent to the Board for examination, he says, "Upon 

 my four acres, three men have been mowing three and a half days. 

 There will be about fifteen tons." 



Among the foreign notices of this clover, I find a report of a trial 

 in East Lothian, Scotland, on an extensive scale, (upwards of sixty 

 acres.) After stating the details of culture and results, the writer 

 adds : "I have, therefore, every reason to be satisfied with the ex- 

 periments I have made with this species of clover, having found it 

 to grow freely and thick, and to be the earliest and finest herbage 

 for any description of stock, that requires early, fine clover, espe- 

 cially up to midsummer. It is an invaluable auxilliary to red clo- 

 ver, and quite capable of forming a substitute for it. It has the 



