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HOW TO GROW GOOD CLOVER. 



then the clover cannot grow, and you ultimately 

 see the ground occupied by a spreading noxious 

 plant, or, this dying out, there will be a vacant 

 spot, — in either case resulting in a loss of nutri- 

 ment. 



But, besides the more natural method of selling 

 dirty seed from weedy patches, seedsmen are too apt 

 to mix the seed of plantain (Plcmtago lanceolata) 

 with that of clover ; for, as the colours of the seeds 

 are not unlike, and some people speak favourably of 

 plantain as a sheep-feed, it is unblushingly mixed 

 and sold with clover seed, though the plantain at 

 most is only worth about half the price. 



Where it occurs naturally amongst clovers, it may 

 be separated to make a good sample, but only to be 

 ultimately mixed again and sold to greenhorns with 

 a cheap sample. We have had before us samples of 

 clover containing plantain as under : — 



5. TABLE OF PLANTAIN SEEDS IN CLOVER. 



In the instance where we had estimated as many 

 as 1,568,000 plantain seeds to a bushel of clover seed, 

 the seedsman admitted that he had put it with the 

 clover at the rate of one pound of plantain to eleven 

 pounds of clover, under the impression that it was a 

 desirable pasture plant. Now this we know is often 



