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and Poa pratensis and t r i v i a 1 i s (Smooth- and Rough- 

 stalked Meadow-grass) might be joined to the above named varieties. 

 As regards the yields of various origins of the seeds of A 1 s i k e, 

 we never found a great difference whether the stock-seed used 

 were United States-, Canadian- or European-grown. In that respect 

 we would therefore look in the first place for the purest possible 

 and biggest grain, and our choice would fall first on Canadian; 

 next on United States'; and finally on European-grown seed. There 

 are, as a rule, every year several lots of European seed which 

 excell in quality those exported by Canada. Yet, where many of them 

 do contain C u s c u t a (Dodder), we consider it safer to buy either 

 Canadian or States' seed, which never contain this obnoxious weed. 



Trifoliuin incarnatum (Crimson clover). Once, some 30 years 

 ago, extensively used in Holland as well as the neighboring 

 districts just beyond the border. It has gradually lost ground there 

 and very few fields grown with this plant are noticed now, the value 

 of which is a good-one from a nutritive point of view, but the 

 purpose of which is rather limited. Sown in August on a middling 

 or lighter kind of soil, seldom used on heavy good rich land, it 

 springs up very soon indeed and makes good-sized plants the 

 same autumn; and though it gives one cut only in spring, it has 

 this advantage, that it is one of the earliest kinds of fodder then ; 

 that it can be cut quite a fortnight earlier than Red clover and 

 comes in, therefore, very handy indeed at a time when young green 

 fodder is very much wanted, especially in a spring which through 

 lasting cold weather is somewhat backward with the general vege- 

 tation. As all stock like it, there is also for that reason nothing 

 against sowing it for feeding every variety of them. 



The field having been cut, all that has been left there of the 

 plants may be ploughed under, thus giving a fair quantity of green 

 manure to the soil for some autumn sowing. 



Crzmso/i-clover being a plant of a short duration only, it is 

 seldom used in connection with grasses, but nearly always sown 

 as a separate crop. If at-all grasses are to be used along with it, 

 it is the Ryegrasses, perennial and Italian that answer the 

 purpose best and are to be recommended. 



1 riloliiiiu pratense (Red clover). Decidedly the most import- 

 ant of all feeding plants and so universally known and expanded, 

 that it would almost sound temerarious, if one were to pretend 

 that he was going to tell something new on it. 



