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effect in bringing in white clover. In Maryland on very 

 poor sands I have seen strips of white clover along the 

 shell roads where the wheels had powdered the shells into 

 dust and it had washed into the soil. Bees love white 

 clover, as also do pigs, fowls and all grazing animals. It 

 is richer than the larger-growing clovers and makes dur- 

 ing the season a large amount of grazing. It is not of 

 much value for mowing. The one objection to white 

 clover is that after seed forms it sometimes causes horses 

 to drip a large amount of saliva or "slobber." They 

 should for a short time be taken off white clover pasture. 

 It seldom bloats cattle or sheep, as other clovers do, per- 

 haps because it is nearly always intermixed with grasses. 

 I should add white clover to nearly every pasture mix- 

 ture. Men often ask, "Why sow white clover it comes 

 of itself?" The truth is it comes much more abundantly 

 and sooner, as a rule, when a little seed is sown. 



Quantity of Seed to Soiv. The seed is small and 2 

 pounds will go well over an acre, so the expense of sow- 

 ing is slight. It seems to be easily established, sown 

 either very early in spring or, in the South, in fall. The 

 seed may lie dormant for years if buried too deeply in 

 the soil, growing after being raised near enough to the 

 surface so that it can reach daylight an example of 

 the wonderful intelligence of nature. 



Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) . This is the most 

 common sort of cultivated clover in America, and the one 

 of which most has been said and written. There are two 

 species, the common red and mammoth (Trifolium pra- 

 tense perenne). There seems all sorts of intermediate 



