8 FARMER'S BOOK OF GRASSES 



I have found that red clover hay of the second cutting, kept 

 a year or more, loses the property of salivating; but whether 

 the same is true of white clover I have not learned. In nutri- 

 tive value, it is about equal to red clover; as a fat producer 

 much better. 



5. T. PROCUMBEUS. Low Hop Clover. This plant is small, 

 spreading, downy and of little value. 



6. T. AGRARIUM. Yellow Hop Clover. This is a little lar- 

 ger than the preceding, but not very valuable. Both have yel- 

 low blossoms. 



7. T. CAROL.INIANUM. Carolina Clover, with purplish blooms^ 

 is procumbent, small and ajFords but little grazing. 



8. T. STOLONIFERUM. Running Buffalo Clover. This is 

 much like, and may be a variety of number 3 above, but differ- 

 ing by sending out runners. 



9. T. MEDIUM. Zigzag Clover. This is only a variety prob- 

 ably of the red clover, from which it differs in having spotless, 

 more oblong, entire leaves and zigzag stems. 



10. T. INCARNATUM. Crimson Clover. An annual, matu- 

 ring earlier than the red of which it is perhaps a variety. 



11. T. ERECTUM. Sapling Clover, as stated on a preceding 

 page is a coarse, erect variety of the red clover, later maturing. 



12. T. HYBRIDUM. Alsike Clover. This Sweedish species is 

 superior to red clover in feeding value, furnishes more fat and 

 flesh forming materials and less crude fibre. Its yield per acre 

 of hay however is less. It is admirable for grazing. It is slow- 

 taking possession of land, but is perennial and does well with 

 orchard grass, both for grazing and hay. It "is quite fragrant 

 and a good honey plant. My personal knowledge of it is too 

 limited to estimate properly its true value in the South. 



PSORA LEA. 



8ix or more species are native. No common or local name is known 

 to me. These plants furnish considerable forage for live stock ; 

 but they are hardly worthy of cultivation. 



PETALOSTEMON. Prairie Clover. 



We have five or six species, which, though valuable and use- 

 ful to stock in pasture or forest, are not sufficiently so to assure 

 cultivation. 



ONOBRYCHIS SATIVA. Esparsette, Sainfoin. 



This perennial, European, pea-like plant has a high character 

 as a feed in France. It is cultivated to but a limited extent in 

 the South. It is worthy of trial as it belongs to a warm climate. 



