272 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



if left too long in the sun the leaves will shatter and fall. 

 Should the plants be large and heavy when cut, they will 

 be the better for turning over at least once during the ten 

 hours' exposure to the sun. 



Indian clover makes a splendid pasture, growing up as 

 fast as eaten off by stock, and as food for a milch cow it 

 has no superior — not only greatly increasing the quantity 

 of milk, but also its richness. 



In many sections of Floiida this valuable plant is indige- 

 nous and regarded as a weed ! We only wish the world 

 was full of such "weeds." How little care and poverty 

 there would be left in it! 



