6 PREFACE. 
In the introductory part of the book, the principal groups of 
fodder and pasture plants have been dealt with in a half-scientific 
way. The plants have been arranged chiefly ip accordance with the 
system followed in the last edition of Gray’s Manual of Botany. 
The authors are greatly indebted to Leonard S. Klinck, B.S.A., 
Professor of Field Husbandry at MacDonald College, Que., who 
kindly consented to examine and criticise the manuscript, and to 
C. A. Zavitz B.S.A., Professor of Field Husbandry at the Ontario 
Agricultural College at Guelph, who has given the authors much 
valuable information on fodder and pasture plants that are of interest 
to the province of Ontario. The helpful suggestions given by these 
well-known authorities have been most encouraging and are greatly 
appreciated. 
Recognition for much arduous detail work in correcting the proof 
is due to Mr. E. D. Eddy, B.S.A., and Miss A. L. Brown, who also 
compiled the quotations from old writings which are inserted where 
the space would otherwise be unoccupied, as the text is paged to 
suit the arrangement of the plates. 
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M. O. M. 
Without forage no cattle; without cattle no manure; without manure no crops.—Flemish 
Proverb. 
Keep the dry provender which you have laid up for winter and think how long a winter it may 
be.— Cato, 95-46 B.C. 
A. Furius Chresimus, a fredeman, having found himseif able, from a very small piece of land, to 
raise far more abundant harvests than his neighbors could from the largest farms, became the object 
of very considerable jealousy among them, and was accordingly accused of enticing away the crops 
of others by the practice of sorcery.............. Apprehensive of being condemned, he had all his 
implements of husbandry brought into the Forum, together with his farm servants, robust, well- 
conditioned, and well clad people, Piso says. The iron tools were of first rate quality, the mattocks 
were stout and strong, the plough-shares ponderous and substantial, and the oxen sleek and in prime 
condition. When all this had been done, “Here, Roman citizens’’, said he, ‘are my implements of 
magic; but it is impossible for me to exhibit to your view, or to bring into this Forum, those midnight 
toils of mine, those early watchings, those sweats, and those fatigues.’ Upon this, by the unani- 
mous voice of the people, he was immediately acquitted.—Pliny, Natural History, 23-79. 
