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It may be used both as green fodder and as hay and is well-liked 

 by all sorts of stock, horses excepted, which don't seem so fond of 

 it. If destined for hay-making, it is advisable to handle the green 

 produce somewhat gently to avoid the loss of foliage which, as 

 the leaves are the longest size of all sorts of clover, would mean 

 the loss of a great portion of the very best part of the hay. 



The best time and way to sow is early in spring and in connection 

 with either summer-rye or oats. The quantity of clover present on the 

 field after the rye or oats are off, is not exactly a large-one, and our 

 experience has taught us, that it is not advisable to have this mown 

 off, even, if it has had time to develop further, as the next year's 

 yield is sure to suffer from doing so and to give far less in bulk. 



Better than having a field of Kidney Vetch single, is to 

 sow a mixture of it with grasses, in which case varieties like 

 Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue), Phleum pratense 

 (Timotly) and Avena elatior (Tall Oat-grass) are the best 

 suited for the purpose. 



Hecly&arum onobrycliis and foifera (Sainfoin double and 

 single). One of those agricultural plants which, whilst putting the 

 lowest demands to either kind of soil or manure, gives in exchange 

 the very best results, both in regard to yield and quality of produce. 



It does not put a great demand to the soil. In fact, it grows on 

 the lightest soils holding a certain percentage of lime only, thriving 

 the better the greater that percentage is. 



However, once the plants have got a sound footing in such 

 lighter soils, there is no fear they won't thrive well. In fact, 

 Sainfoin produces then and there a spledid crop of very good 

 fodder, and as it makes exceptionally deep roots, there is amongst 

 the clovers no variety which stands a lasting drought so well as 

 this plant. All sorts of stock like it both in the green state and as 

 hay. As hay it has this advantage over the various clovers, that it 

 is soon dry during the process of hay-making and does, therefore, 

 not loose so easily its manifold leaves; and where, as is the case 

 with all sorts of clovers, 100 Lbs of foliage do possess as great a 

 nutritive value as 200 Lbs of the remainder of the plant, very 

 often even more than that, it stands to reason, that it keeps up its 

 value in hay better than any other sort of clover, especially if these 

 are not being carefully handled during the process of hay-making. 



As green fodder it can, however, not render such great services 

 as in the shape of hay. Not that it is not valuable enough in that 



