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It is often sown after wheat or potatoes, and 

 plowed in the following spring. It is sown broad- 

 cast at the rate of 15 lbs. per acre. It grows with 

 great rapidity, and two or three crops may be ob- 

 tained in a season. Spurry and the white lupine 

 are both annuals. 



Bied's-Foot Teefoil {Lotus corniculatus) is a 

 prostrate perennial, common on open grassy pas- 

 tures and dry places. It is a leguminous plant, 



BIRD S-FOOT TREFOIL. 



equally nutritious as clover, and is instantly eaten 

 down whenever cattle have access to it. It is ono 

 of the commonly-cultivated " artificial grasses" of 

 England, and is always recommended as worthy a 

 place in all mixtures for permanent pastures, and 

 especially for lawns, orchards, and shady places. 



MEDICAGO LUPCLINA. 



MEDioAao LUPTTLiNA is another leguminous plant, 

 B fibrous-rooted perennial, very common in dry 

 pastures, especially if of good loamy quality, where 

 It forms, with other plants, a thick sward. The 

 pods are short, black, twisted, and arrayed in ob- 

 long heads, as shown in the annexed engraving. 

 It is not equal in nutritious qualities, perhaps, to 



red clover, but is valuable on dry, poor soUs, where, 

 however, it is apt to run out in a few years. 



LiroERNE {Medicago sativa). — This is a well- 

 known plant, which has been more or less cultiva- 

 ted in this country for 

 many years. It requires 

 very rich land, and deep 

 and thorough cultivation. 

 It should be planted in 

 rows, and hand-hoed or 

 forked between, several 

 times during the first 

 and second years. It 

 does not attain its maxi- 

 mum productiveness till 

 the third year. On these 

 accounts, it is not likely 

 to be very generally in- 

 troduced into a country lucebnk. 

 where land is cheap and labor dear. In the neigh- 

 borhood of large cities, however, it is a useful crop, 

 especially for feeding to milch cows in summer. 

 It can be cut three times a year, yieldiog a good 

 crop each time, if the soil is sufiiciently rich. 



Yetoh or Tare ( Vicia sativa). — In England this 

 is an exceedingly valuable plant, especially on 

 heavy soils. It can be sown in the fall or in the 

 spring — the latter generally yielding the heaviest 

 crop, though the former is the earliest. Vetches 

 are principally used as a green food for horses. 

 An *cre of good vetches, fed in the yard or stable, 

 will keep more horses than six acres of the best 

 pasturage. They succeed best in a wet season, and 

 on this account are not likely to do well in this 

 country, though we have seen them in Canada,, and 

 have been informed that they succeed well and are 

 very useful. A good "smothering" crop of vetches, 

 cut before they go 

 to seed, are nearly 

 as good to precede 

 wheat as a sum- 

 mer-fallow. Mor- 

 toil's Cyclopedia of 

 Agriculture says : 

 " Sheep fatten fast- 

 er upon this (greeni 

 vetches) than oa 

 any other herb- 

 age, which occa~ 

 sions its constant 

 use by ram-breed- 



TT • VETCH. 



ers. Horses im- 



proTC more rapidly upon it than on clover or 



grasses. Horned cattle thrive surprisingly tipoa 



