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_racter of clover-hay is injured by the inordinate desire 
of getting too heavy crops, which are never sweet nor 
maturated ; and, at the root, the grass of such crops is 
always feculent, and often rotten. The seller may gain 
by two, three, and often more, tons to the acre at a cut- 
ting; but neither the buyer, nor the farmer who con- 
sumes it, is equally benefitted. Horses reject, or suffer 
by, such over-luxuriant crops ; and, being rank, coarse, 
and often leafless, cattle waste a great proportion of 
them. 
For milch-cows in winter, no other hay is equal to 
good well cured clover. I have often tried the com- 
parative merits, in this way, of clover and the best of 
other hay. The complaint, that it wastes, and is injurious 
to horses, is owing to its over luxuriance, and bad 
curing ; and not to any unwholesome qualities, in the 
plant. Every one of experience knows, that too heavy 
crops of any grass, never turn out wholesome, sweet, 
and profitable, in the consumption.* 
Mr. Noianp’s correspondents were Leven Powell, 
James Heaton, Mahlon Taylor, George Taverner, Ber- 
* The idea that clover (plaistered or not) more than other 
grass, has a tendency to produce the running at the mouth 
of horses or cattle is uniounded. See vol. 1, of agricultural 
memoirs, pages 167, 8. I have seen on all grass grounds, in the 
autumn, with a microscope, numberless red spiders, very 
small. Some say spreading hot lime kills them, and prevents 
salivary defluxions, trom horses and cattle. I cannot ascer- 
tain the cause of this uniortunate complaint. I have heard 
many, but no satisiactory, accounts oi its origin, or remedy. 
Sait sometimes checks it ; and so does putting the horses, or 
cattle, to dry forage, or grain. R. P. 
