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opment, a marked difference very much in favour of the European 

 seed will have been noted. 



Still, as said before, there is even amongst the various European 

 origins an enormous difference. 



One of the very best kinds of stock-seed is decidedly the so- 

 called Lowland Dutch. It is noted for its beautiful, tall-growing 

 tender plant and its exceptionally large yield. Unlike most of the 

 high going plants it keeps its tenderness very well indeed without 

 showing a sign of turning hard. It is a big-grain and has as a rule 

 (not always, however!) a palish colour with a few seeds in tending 

 towards a brownish shade as though they had suffered from rain, 

 a characteristic which must be mainly attributed to the moist 

 atmosphere of this country. 



It is, therefore, not a seed which for colour takes the eye; but 

 its great merits for quantity and quality of yield are doubted by 

 nobody this side of the Atlantic. 



And the fact that before the time arrived when in other sections 

 of Europe the cultivation on a large scale of Red clover-seed was 

 started, it was the Lowland Dutch Red that was being looked for 

 and bought everywhere, gives ample proof of how since centuries 

 that seed was kept in high esteem. 



This may be a guidance to American seedsmen who, after the 

 experience that is now being made with European-grown, imported 

 seed and who, after making a comparison between the produce 

 thereof and that of their own home-grown seed used before, and 

 finding themselves likewise some marked difference in favour 

 of the former should henceforth have an intention to import 

 European-grown Red clover-seed, to know which of the European 

 origins ranks amongst the foremost. 



The connection between Red clover and the Natural Grasses is 

 easily seen, and the knowledge of where they can help one an- 

 other to derive the best possible results and the greatest possible 

 yields of good nutritive fodder, is acquired very soon indeed. 



The fact that Red clover fields serve as a rule for a two years' 

 lay indicates at-once those varieties of grasses to be used in 

 connection with this seed if a mixed field of both Red clover 

 and grasses is to be created ; or in case too large bare spots 

 present themselves in a newly sown Red clover-field, in order to 

 see such grasses rather quickly developped and derive the desired 

 for benefits of the land within the shortest possible space of time. 



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