NORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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This plant is probably better adapted to horses than cattle, 

 especially milch cows, or rather horses and sheep. Sheep 

 consume the leaves and softer parts of the stems, and then 

 horses eat readily the remainder. Working horses do well 

 on what sheep leave. Sanfoin has been mown for nine 

 or ten years in succession, and has produced good crops 

 each year without manure. It is not the proper food for 

 milch cows, as it imparts a bitter taste to the butter. The 

 sod, after it has been growing for several years, is full of 

 roots, and it is often ploughed and then burnt over. In this 

 climate ploughing and burning is not^advisable. 



The nutritive value of sanfoin does not differ materially 

 from lucerne. It is composed, so far as its proximate elements 

 are concerned, of: 



Water, 76.64 



Alluminous matter, 4.32 



Fatty matter, 0.70 



Heat producing, 10.73 



Woody fibre, 5.77 



Ash, 1.84 



When dry, it yields of alluminous matter, 18.45, and heat 

 producing, 45.96. 



CRIMSON CLOVER (TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM.) 



In some parts of this country this clover would no doubt 

 succeed. It however, requires a climate rather cooler and 

 moister than that of the eastern counties. But in the moun- 

 tainous section of the Southern States it can hardly fail of 

 being received with favor. The advantages arising from its 

 culture, are, it may be sown after potatoes are secured, and 

 produce a spring crop which will be earlier by eight or ten 

 days than lucerne or red clover. It produces two good crops 

 in one year. It is, however, an annual, and it requires as 

 much care to insure success as the red clover. For soiling 

 cattle it is well adapted, in consequence of its early growth. 

 If cut for hay, it should be gathered as soon as it is in flower. 

 The seed may be obtained from the second crop. As a gen- 



