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Trifolium pratense perenne (Cowgrass or Perennial Red 

 clover}. On account of its longer duration: 4, 5 years or longer 

 even, and of its great agricultural and nutritive value, a splendid 

 plant. It does not grow up high and is for that reason unfit for 

 the same purpose the ordinary Red clover is being used for, 

 which apart from the aim of having a good fodder (in which 

 respect the perennial Red clover is in no way inferior to it!) is 

 to get bulk as well. To reach, therefore, the latter aim it cannot 

 be recommended, on account of the shortness of its plant and the 

 smaller quantity it consequently yields. 



Its great value, therefore, comes in there where it is being used 

 as an admixture to the permanent grasses. There it can be used 

 with great advantage, though not in too great a proportion, as 

 otherwise it tends to cover the land too thickly and prevents the 

 grasses from coming through. 



All sorts of stock are exceedingly fond of it and eat it with 

 eagerness. 



Ti iioliiim repens (White clover}. Except for seed-saving this 

 is not a variety to be sown separately, the main purpose being to 

 use it in a small proportion as an admixture to the Natural Grasses 

 for permanent pasture-land. Its dwarf growth does not make it so 

 well adapted for a separate clover-field, as it would not bring in 

 that bulk which the other clovers and Lucerne yield. We would 

 not say anything against its nutritive value, which is in no way 

 inferior to the other varieties, except that both cattle and horses 

 often leave the flowers, which have a more or less bitter taste, 

 alone. But they do eat with eagerness its foliage. It prefers a 

 heavy soil, but may be seen just as well and in great abundance 

 on lighter ditto, provided this be a well-manured tract of land. 



As said before, its right place is in a permanent pasture, where 

 it fills up many a bare spot with a useful feeding plant and gives, 

 if for grazing purposes, a good change for the cattle, be it that it 

 does not bring in bulk. 



Yet one of the White clover's characteristics, namely its tendency 

 to spread, should make a farmer be somewhat cautious in using 

 it too freely in a grass-seed mixture. For, with quality it is at 

 the same time bulk he demands of his land. And now, if certain 

 circumstances and conditions of soil and weather work together, 

 it often happens, that the White clover-plants develop too luxuri- 

 antly, creeping subteraneously in various directions and covering 



