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but die away soon; and he will use it there with great advantage 

 and success. 



It is more useful for hay-making than the ordinary Lucerne as 

 it is far sooner dried and looses therefore less in weight and in 

 its best part: the foliage. 



Sand-Lucerne may be sown either by itself, or in connection 

 with grasses. In both cases the best way is to have it sown in 

 spring with either oats or summer-rye as the first year's crop. 

 After the oats or summer-rye are off, there will be that same 

 season very little Sand-Lucerne on the field, not sufficient at any 

 rate to allow of its being grazed off or of getting anything in the 

 shape of a crop worth mentioning. 



If grasses are to be sown along with the Sand-Lucerne, it is 

 Avena elatior (Tall Oat-grass), Dactylis glomerata 

 (Orchard-grass), the Rye-grasses, perennial and Italian, 

 Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue), Festuca pratensis 

 (Meadow Fescue) and Phleum pratense (Timothy) that should 

 be used for that purpose. 



Hcclicago saliva (Lucerne or Alfalfa^. If Red clover is the 

 most universal, widespread and important of all clovers, it may 

 be said without any exaggeration, that Lucerne or Alfalfa comes 

 next to it from an agricultural point of view. It is in no way 

 inferior to the Red clover in regard to nutritive value for which 

 it ranks amongst the foremost. It is the inferior of Red clover 

 only in yield at each mowing, but as it shoots forth after cutting 

 very rapidly again, it can easily be mown 3 or 4 times in a 

 favorable season and make good by its manifold mowings what it 

 gives less at each cutting. 



Though cattle, if they have the choice of it, prefer Red clover 

 to Lucerne, it is on the other hand horses that give the preference 

 to Lucerne. But all of them eat it with eagerness. For dairy- 

 cattle, however, it is advisable, not to feed them on Lucerne alone, 

 but to give them some other fodder besides, as the feeding of 

 Lucerne ,,pure and simple" has a less favorable effect on both the 

 quality and flavour op the butter. 



Lucerne has, furthermore, in its favour over Red clover its 

 longer duration. For, although it does not last as a rule so long 

 as is supposed to be the case : a duration of seven years, yet, on 

 suitable soil it shows a fairly covered field easily 5 or 6 years. 



Lucerne requires a good heavy but not too moist a soil and 



