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the fjrst method, the whole mass is made acceptable t» 

 cattle ; by the second, the quantity of nutritive forage 

 is increased — and by both methods the clover is effectu- 

 ally prevented from healing, which greatly injures it, 

 and renders it hurtful to horses. If on twisting some of 

 the largest stalks like a string, no moisture appears upon 

 the surface, it may be housed with safety. 



When a crop of clover seed is to be raised, let it be 

 from the last crop of the second year; and sometimes in- 

 stead of cutting the first, let it be pastured till the 10th 

 of June : as suffering ibe crop to ripen, injures the 

 roots for a succeeding crop. In the first crop, of either 

 season, very little seed is to be found. 



It is said by DukameU that one acre of this plant will 

 feed as many cattle as four or live oj" common grass : but 

 they must not be suffered to eat too plentifully of it at 

 first. It should be given by degrees, liii they are fully 

 seasoned to it : nor should they ever be turned into this 

 ibod in wet weather. 



Green clover is good food for swine in summer ; and 

 when cut green, and salted, after being a little wi.her- 

 ed, with about half a peck of salt to a load, it makes 

 good food for them in winter, after being steamed or 

 boiled. 



Half a bushel of plaister, well mixed with a suitable 

 proportion of ashes and fine salt, strewed over an acre 

 of clover ground, after each mowing, will make it much 

 more productive. 



Herd's-grass^ or Meadow-catstail (^Botanical name Phe- \ 

 hum Pratcnse) called Timothy in the middle and south- 

 ern states. It is improperly called Fox-tail^ quite a dif- 

 ferent species. Herds grass grows best in rich moist 

 soil ; but it will grow well, for a few years, in a rich 

 wet, or a rich arable soil. In the rich wet soil, it grad- 

 ually lessens in product ; while at the same time it gives 

 way to wild grasses. In a rich arable soil, it gradually 

 fails, by reason of the ground becoming bound, and the 

 sward thickened with other grasses. Probably if it were 

 well torn with the harrow in the spring, and not too 

 closely pastured in the fall, and not at all in he spring, 

 it would grow well ibr many years in such soil. By 

 close pasturing in the fall, it is ajjt to be torn out by the 

 roots, and by cropping it a^-ain in the spring, it suffers 



