On Soiling Cattle. 
Unless a remedy for this malady in clover should be 
discovered, it cannot, consistent with the preservation 
of a necessary rotation, be used for soiling longer than 
until the green grass or orchard grass are ready, without 
recourse to the plough, which, unless under certain cir- 
cumstances, may be found too expensive; and if guinea 
or broom corn is sown for this purpose, a gap will be 
* left between them and the clover, to be filled up with 
some other green food, for which purpose it is thought 
timothy might answer, if the Guinea corn is sown early 
on a good soil; the patch of that plant mentioned in a 
former communication, produced a better third crop 
than was expected, from the late planting and complete 
‘ shade of woods on two sides of the patch ; it was left 
_... standing until frost, and found as tender, or perhaps 
more so than Indian corn. Query, would gypsum be a 
anure for this plant. 
Clover from the first commencement of its being af- 
ected, has through the whole season afterward been in- 
jurious to the cattle, and that as far as could be deter- 
mined by the eye, in exact proportion to the mixture of 
it contained in each load, unless the quantity of it mix. 
ed among the other grasses was too small to produce 
any perceptible efieet; yet when the proportion of clover 
did not exceed above one-third, both cattle and horses 
eat it freely, and appear to do well, but as they still slob- 
bered some, it is thought they would have done still 
better, if the mixture had been much less, or if the red 
clover had been altogether absent ; it was also very ob- 
servable that they were not all affected alike, for while 
the great majority were all but starving on clover, or 
too large a mixture of that plant, a few continued to eat 
