SAINFOIN. Ill 



For a period of two hundred years, Sainfoin has 

 been cultivated in England, and for many years in 

 Scotland. Its cultivation is still an important feature 

 in British husbandry. Morton's Farmer** s Calendar 

 (Eng.), 1874, states: " There are many parts of the 

 United Kingdom in which the farmers could not pay 

 their rents without the use of this crop. Chalky 

 soils, and sand upon chalk, are its favorite soils > 

 also loams and clays, if not too stiif or too deep. 'On 

 limestone it does well, too on very dry, sound 

 gravels but not if the under stratum be mixed 

 with clay. I have tried it without success on 

 good, dry turnip loam, but on every species of 

 chalk and white marl its success is certain. On poor 

 sand lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, worth only five 

 shillings per acre, the crop for several years (after the 

 first) has been from one to two tons and a half per 

 acre of excellent hay, mown every year. Whatever 

 the price of hay may be, such a produce on such 

 land is prodigious, with the additional circumstance 

 of an after-grass extremely valuable for weaning and 

 keeping lambs. In England, March is ths principal 

 month for sowing Sainfoin. It may, hovever, be 

 salely sown in April. The land should be clean and 

 free from weeds and the seeds of weeds, and this is 

 the principal circumstance to attend it. It should be 

 sown with barley or oats the land in fine tilth and 

 the seed covered by harrowing. When the land is 

 dry, the proper quantity of seed is 4 bushels (rough 

 seed) per acre. It flourishes so well broadcast that 

 there is no necessity to attempt the drill method." 



Sainfoin was introduced into the State of Georgia 

 by the Honorable W. H. Crawford, about the year 

 1820, Judge Peters, of Pennsylvania, experimented 



