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Now we surely don't mean to do this. And yet there are many 

 things and facts known to one class of agricultural people, unknown 

 to another; whereas this latter class may know other things and 

 facts unknown to the former. If, therefore, we write here a few 

 lines on this article, giving facts based for the greater part on 

 our own experience, the intent is mainly this, that every-one of 

 our readers may gather from them that which is new to him and 

 use it to his advantage. 



And then, we think, it does not require any explanation as to 

 how Red-clover should be sown in regard to time, or how 

 and when it should be cut. Only this we wish to say in regard to 

 the latter and repeat here what has been said on several occasions 

 and in different ways by others, that if destined for hay-making, 

 a farmer can't be too careful during the process of hay-making in 

 handling gently his Red-clover in order to avoid as much as pos- 

 sible the loss of the plants' foliage, i. e. of the very best nutritive 

 part of the plant. 



But we mean to point out in the first place what seed should 

 be used, and next what connection the article has with the various 

 Natural Grasses, the main object of this treatise. 



Now our experience has taught us, that next to getting the 

 cleanest possible seed, free from obnoxious weeds, amongst which 

 C u s c u t a (Dodder) in its different varieties is the worst of all, 

 there is one thing more that speaks a great word and to which, 

 in our opinion, far too little attention is being paid. We mean the 

 origin of the seed that is being used. For here comes in the 

 question of both yield and quality of the produce and hardiness 

 of the plants to maintain themselves in the fields under both 

 favorable and unfavorable circumstances of soil and climate. 



Our experience has taught us, that the seeds grown in the 

 northern and more temperately situated districts of Europe 

 are far superior to those of the southern regions; not only for 

 the fact that they do contain a smaller percentage of weeds and 

 of their being as a rule free from Dodder, but also owing to their 

 far greater yields at the various successive cuts; the quality of 

 their produce and their maintenance in the field where they are 

 by a long way not so liable to dying away during severe winters 

 and keen spring-weather as the produce of southerly-grown seed. 

 And, if in this place and in this respect we have to deal on 

 both United States' and Canadian seed, we must pronounce as 

 our opinion based on our own experience acquired during several 



