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Produce of Grass and Yield per Acre in Great Britain 

 in 1909. (Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests). 

 Jour, of the R. Agric. Soc. of England, vol. 70, London, 1909. 



DOUGLAS A. GILCHRIST. Trials of Wild White Clover. Clover-, 

 Sickness. Thejourn. of the Board of Agric. December, 1909. 

 Vol. XVI, N. 9, Pp. 713-718. 



"White or Dutch clover (Trifohum repens] has been grown by 

 English farmers since 1764(1) or earlier. In that year the Society 

 of Arts awarded a premium of 20 to a Wiltshire agriculturist 

 for growing 21 z /4 cwt. of the seed of this plant, and a similar pre- 

 mium was awarded for the same purpose in the following year. 

 The Society's object was to encourage the growing of the seed in 

 this country, instead of importing it from Holland, as was then the 

 custom. Red, or broad-leaved clover (Trifolium pratense) had been 

 in common use in England long before this time, as Walter Blyth 

 in the "English Improver Improved" (third edition, 1652) describes 

 the cultivation of this crop. 



(i) Dossie's Memoirs of Agriculture, vol. I, p. 58. 



