AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS. .7 



next spring showed the largest stems and heaviest yield of oats I 

 have ever seen. 



Seed per acre. Not less than ten pounds should be used. 

 This may do very well when orchard grass is sown with it, at the 

 rate of four or five pounds per acre. And this is a good combina- 

 tion, as the orchard grass is ready at the same time with the clo- 

 ver for the mower, and it assists in curing the clover more prompt- 

 ly and nicely,, though not quite so nicely cured itself in the mix- 

 ture. When clover is planted alone, I prefer to use twelve or 

 fifteen pounds ; or one bushel (sixty pounds) for four acres, or at 

 most' five. By using plenty of seed we obtain a better catch, and 

 the . increased harvest pays many times over the additional cost 

 of more seed. 



Soil. Any good soil with red clay subsoil near the surface is 

 well adapted to clover. 



2. T. ARVENSE. Rabbit-foot Clover, Stone Clover. This 

 species is small and almost worthless. The calyx of this and 

 red clover remanis erect in seed, while in all the following it be- 

 comes reflexed or turned downward. It may be known by the 

 corolla being of flesh color, or whitish with a purple spot, and al- 

 most concealed by the plumose silky calyx. The heads are very 

 soft silky-downy, oblong at length cylindrical. 



8. T." REPLEXUM. Buffalo Clover. This native plant grows 

 a foot high with very stout ascending pubescent stems and large 

 heads of rose-red and whitish flowers. It is a valuable plant and 

 cattle are fond of it. The large succulent stems and leaves afford 

 so much forage, that it might be cultivated profitably. 



4. T. REPEUS. White Clover. This universally known plant, 

 though perhaps not a native, grows luxuriantly and spontaneous- 

 ly on nearly all deep, red clay lands and furnishes excellent gra- 

 zing in many parts of the southern States from January on for 

 some months, sometimes through spring and early summer. The 

 later second growth, like that of red clover, salivates horses, mules, 

 and sometimes cows. The flow of saliva is often enormous and 

 very damaging to horses. I have seen but one bad case in the 

 cow. White Clover yields a large quantity of the best honey 

 that can be made. It is however not reliable for this use from 

 ,the fact that sometimes, without any apparent cause, it disap- 

 pears almost wholly for one or more years, and then suddenly 

 again covers the earth with a most luxuriant and nutritious 

 growth. I have often had much trouble on account of its per- 

 sistent, luxuriant growth among other crops where I did not 

 want it. 



It frequently starts well into rich growth earlier than the red 

 clover and though soon concealed from sight by the latter, both 

 are unavoidably mowed and cured together, thus giving a hay 

 that w r ill salivate. 



