110 SAIXFOIX. 



Way's Analysis. 

 100 parts as taken green from the field June 8tli. 



Water "J"^-^^ 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles.' 4:.32 



Fatty matter l^ 



Heat producing i^rinciples, starch, sugar, gum, etc 10.73 



Woody fibre 5.77 



Mineral matter or ash l'S4: 



lOO.OD 

 100 parts of the grass dried at 212^ Fahr. 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles 18.45 



Fatty matter ^-O^ 



Heat producing iDrincii^les, starch, sugar, gum, etc. .. 45.9G 



Woody Fibre 24.71 



Mineral Water, or Ash '^ -87 



France is considered tlie country most favorable to 

 the growth of Sainfoin. In Europe it is commonly 

 called French grass (Sainfoin Holy Hay). In Swit- 

 zerland and other mountainous countries, Sainfoin 

 is a main dependence, because in many parts of 

 those countries the finer grasses will not grow profit- 

 ably. 



Sainfoin has long been cultivated in England, and 

 is found growing wild in nearly all the chalky dis- 

 tricts of the kingdom. Parkinson, in 1640, said of 

 it : " It is generally known to be a singular food for 

 cattle, causing them to give great store of milk." 



Worlidge, in his Mystery of Husbandry (1681), 

 treats of Sainfoin at large. He says : "In Wiltshire, 

 in several places, there are precedents of Sainfoin 

 that has been there twenty years, growing on poor 

 land, and has so far improved the same, that from a 

 noble per acre, twenty acres together have been cer- 

 tainly worth thirty shillings per acre, and still con- 

 tinues in good proof." 



