148 KOW TO GROW GOOD CLOVE It. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



ON THE WEEDS OF CLOVETtS. 



That clover crops are often very full of weeds every 

 farmer must be fully aware, but few among them have 

 used sufficient penetration to have discovered the 

 source of most of the weed growth, not only in 

 clovers, but in other crops : how much, then, may 

 they be expected to be astonished if told that they 

 cultivate weeds by sowing their seeds as carefully as 

 they do those of their crops, and that they pay the 

 same price for weed as for crop seeds ! 



In the spring of 1859 we published the results of 

 some analyses of the weed admixtures in several 

 samples of different kinds of clover seeds, which 

 we annex (table 1, p. 149), adding to them some 

 further results obtained during the present spring, 

 1863, by way of comparison. 



This presents a formidable array of figures, as it 

 shows how much of more than mere harmless matter 

 is purchased and sown instead of good seed; and 

 the fact of the mischief likely to accrue from putting 

 so many enemies in the place of friends will become 

 all the more plain by a careful study of the next 

 table (No. 2, p. 150)/ 



Now, in order to make this part of our argument 

 still more complete, we add another table (No. 3, 

 p. 150), intending to show the number of weed 

 plants absolutely separated from a single square 



