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will yield, but it can nevertheless be mown easily twice; on good 

 heavy well-manured land even three times, thus yielding after all 

 a fairly large bulk. It is a splendid fodder both in the green state 

 and as hay, and as it dries up rather rashly after it has been mown, 

 it is soon ready for the latter purpose. Great care must, however, 

 be bestowed on preparing the hay, as the plants easily drop their 

 leaves if handled roughly. All sorts of stock like it very much indeed. 

 It may be sown as a separate crop and then, doing so, in spring 

 with either Oats or Summer-rye. The plants will then be 

 there in a fair quantity already after the fore-crop will be off; some 

 of them will even flower that same autumn. But it will bring in its 

 first crop the next year; or, under certain less favorable circum- 

 stances and conditions of both soil and climate, the third year only. 



It is a strong hardy plant, resisting easily the coldest winters 

 and the most unfavorable circumstances of the weather. 



Whereas it may be grown as a separate crop, yet it is of greater 

 value if sown with either Red-, Lucerne- or Sand Lucerne- 

 clover as a mixed clover-field; or along with grasses either as 

 a temporary or a permanent pasture. 



If for a temporary pasture, the best grasses for the purpose are 

 Perennial and Italian Ryegrasses, Avena elatior (Tall 

 Oat-grass), Dactylis glomerata (Orchard-grass), F e s t u c a 

 pratensis (Meadow Fescue), Phleum pratense (Timothy}, 

 to which, if for moist soils, Festuca elatior (Tall Fescue) 

 may be added with great advantage. 



If for permanent pasture, varieties like Anthoxanthum 

 odoratum (Sweet-scented Vernal, true], Avena flavescens 

 ( Yellow Oat-grass, true) , Cynosurus cristatus (Crested 

 Dogstail), Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue), Poa pratensis 

 and t r i v i a 1 i s (Smooth- and Rough-stalked Meadow-grass) should 

 again be joined to the former varieties of grasses. 



Lotus \ illosis (Small-grained Bird's-foot Trefoil). Nearly all that 

 has been said of the former species applies to this variety. It is 

 just as hardy a plant and valuable a fodder growing in much 

 the same way, except that it requires a moist marshy soil. There 

 it thrives well and brings in a fair quantity of fodder. Both stalk 

 and leaves are somewhat more robust and larger, though the 

 latter are less numerous, but somewhat thicker than those of the 

 Lotus corniculatus, and the plant is in all its parts some- 

 what soft and woolly to the touch. It comes in a little later than 



