Dr. Cbiirles Mobr, Mobile, Alabama : 



Lcvptdc^t xiriata (.Japan clover) is an ;uiimal plant, which, during the last twenty 

 years, ha-s spread all over the Gulf States. It blooms and ripens its seeds from the 

 early summer months to the close of the season, and grows spontaneously in exp.,M !, 

 more or ICKS damp, places of a somewhat close, loamy soil. No attempts at its cult i va- 

 tiou have been made. In the stronger soil of the lands in the interior this plant, 

 protected from the browsing of cattle, grows from 1 to 2 feet in height, and yields 

 largo crops of sweet, nutritious hay, the same plot affording a cut iu August and an- 

 other in October, yielding, respectively, 1-J- tons and 1 ton of hay to the acre. The 

 plant is perfectly hardy, and is not known to have been killed out by a rong drought. 

 It is easily subdued by cultivation, as it does not again make its appearance on land 

 where it has been plowed iu, and is not found among the weeds the farmer has to con- 

 tend with in the cultivation of his crop. It is a perfect pasture plant, easily estab- 

 lished, and standing browsing and tramping by cattle well. Its propagation through 

 the woods and pastures is effected by cattle, the seeds passing through the animals 

 with their vitality unimpaired. As a fertilizing plant it is greatly inferior to the 

 Mexican clover. 



J. B. Wade, Edgewood, De Kalb County, Ga. : 



It is said by the old residents here that Japan clover was unknown iu this part of 

 the country until " after the war." It now grows spontaneously on most of the laud 

 of middle Georgia that has a red-clay subsoil, and which has been turned out, t. e., 

 not plowed or cultivated for two or three years. It grows sufficiently high to make 

 hay, but as it springs up in February, or oven earlier should there come a warm spell 

 of weather, it is mostly used for grazing, as it lasts from February to November. 



J. B. Dartbit, Denver. S. C. : 



It does not stand drought as well as Bermuda ; both are our best pasture plants. 

 For cattle we have nothing better than Japan clover ; but it salivates horses and 

 mules after the 1st of July, especially if very luxuriant. 



J. W. Walker, of Franklin, K. 0., in a letter to tbe Blade Farm, says: 



Seventeen years ago Japan clover was found here, occupying an area not exceeding 

 10 feet square. It now covers thousands of acres, upon which all kinds of stock keep 

 fat and sleek, while the yield in milk and beef products has increased a hundred-fold. 

 Our exhausted and turned-out lands that have hitherto yielded nothing but that 

 worse than useless broom sedge (Andropogon scoparius), now have in its stead a 

 beautiful carpet of most nutritious verdure. 



This plant grows anywhere and on any kind of land, rich or poor, wet or dry, high 

 or low. It has been found in luxuriant growth on the summit of the Blue Ridge, at 

 a height of 4,000 feet. It will catch and grow luxuriantly where none of the clovers 

 proper will grow at all. Unlike them it never runs out. 



J. B. McGebee gives tbe following experiences in a letter to tbe 

 Soutbern Live Stock Journal, September, 1886 : 



This lias proved the worst season for its propagation that I have met with. I have 

 this week examined over 200 acres of my last spring's sowing, where I sowed one- 

 half bushel per acre, and I find the most spotted stand I ever saw ; and of the whole 

 200 acres I will get a crop of hay on not to exceed 50 acres. My first sowing of about 

 80 acres was commenced about March 22, and finished about the 1st of April. This 

 was coming up thickly when the freeze of the 9th of April came, and I am convinced 

 that all seeds then sprouting were frozen out aud killed. The sowings during April 

 did better, but anything like a reasonable stand is found only on moist places. The 

 reason for this is the fact that not a drop of rain foil from April 26 to June 6. Ms- 

 worst catch was on comparatively clean laud, an oat field, in which the oats had 

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