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from 4lb. to 25lb. to the acre being advocated. If the ground is 

 well tilled lolb. to I2lb. will cover it nicely. It is always well to 

 remember that a patchy lucerne paddock can never be properly 

 made up. The long broadcast sower on a barrow is the best for 

 fanners. If two or three neighbours purchase one of these the 

 cost is light, and the machine can be used turn-about. When a 

 man is delighted with a bright, green, young crop of lucerne that 

 has jumped out of the ground in response to late spring or summer 

 rains, he should not rush a lot of stock on just to see what it will 

 carry. Spell a good deal and feed a little, or cut once the iirst 

 year ; after that any fair and honest treatment will not hurt your 

 lucerne. I saw a remarkable result obtained on 40 acres of lucerne 

 one season in Victoria. The crop was sown in September, in a dry 

 district, and came away in line style. Late rains favoured it, and 

 in the summer it was like a great green eye in a burnt-up, brown, 

 and grey country. The owners, pushed for feed, fed it to the 

 ground almost into the ground. Retribution arrived, when, after 

 a dry autumn, the paddock was still red and bare. Then the 

 owners decided to spell the paddock all through the winter. But 

 they could not see so much land wasted for a season, so they 

 actually disc-harrowed it with weights on the harrow, and sowed it 

 in wheat. Twenty acres of wheat was cut for hay, 20 allowed to 

 ripen, " just to see how it would turn out." In the generous shelter 

 of the green and yellow corn the lucerne made a surprising body of 

 stuff. The old binder couldn't take the bulk, and continually 

 choked. When it was threshed the leaves were knocked off the 

 four-foot lucerne stalks and some five tons of the most wonderful 

 chaff in the world came out of the chaff hole. Once a horse or a 

 cow tasted that fodder it only wanted one item on its bill of fare 

 for ever afterwards. Strange to say, the lucerne, despite the heavy 

 disc-harrowing, flourished that year, formed a great sole on the land, 

 and the 40 acres was a fine pasture paddock four years later. 



Melilotus officinal is (Yellow s\veet clover ; King"'s clover ; Hart's 

 clover ; plaster clover ; melilot clover ; common melilot ; wild 

 laburnum). This European species has become quite widely 

 naturalized in this country. It possesses little value not enough to 

 warrant its cultivation. It grows in swamps and in wet meadows, 

 while AI. altissimus grows only on the driest soils. 



Moiiiolti clecumbens (Modiola). A prostrate, creeping, weedy, 

 annual mallow, native of Chili, which has been introduced into 

 portions of California, and is recommended by the California 

 Experiment Station as an alkali plant. Analysis made of it show 

 that it contains almost as much crude protein as alfalfa. Sheep and 

 cattle are fond of it, and eat it down closely. Because it -roots 

 freely at the joints, it is, like purslane, difficult to eradicate, and 

 should be introduced with some caution. A closely related species 

 of very similar habit, M. imiltijida is a native of low grounds from 

 Virginia southward. This is also valuable as a pasture plant. 



