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weeds, but these can be easily exterminated if the precaution is 

 observed to run the mower over it before weeds go to seed. After- 

 wards no fears need be entertained on that subject. 



This plant is well adapted to the use of persons living in small 

 towns or villages, who have a small lot they wish to devote to hay 

 for a single horse or cow. No other kind of clover or grass will 

 equal it in quantity, while the quality is as good as the best. 



On the whole, the farmers cannot do better than adopt the culti- 

 vation of this grass. It has proved, with all who have tested it, 

 worthy of all the extravagant encomiums bestowed upon it. 



An alalysis shows the hay to contain : 



Flesh formers 14.4 



Heating properties 22. 



Crude fibre 40.0 



Fat 2.5 



Ash 6.4 



It will be seen that in flesh-forming constituents it surpasses red 

 clover by one per cent. 



SAINFOIN OB ESPARSETTE. (Onobrychis sativa.) 



Experiments have been made with this grass, and though so 

 valuable in France as to be called sacred, it has not proved a suc- 

 cess here. It requires two or three years to arrive at maturity, and 

 during that time has to be watched closely, or it will be.. choked up 

 with weeds or grasses. It does not yield as much hay as either red 

 clover or lucerne, but is of a very superior kind, and is much 

 vaunted as a good butter- making hay. It does not give cows the 

 hoven, however much they may eat of it. Its seeds are also said to 

 be superior to oats, and more nutritious, and are very fine for fowls, 

 inciting them to lay. It does best on limestone soils, though suc- 

 ceeding well on gravelly or sandy land, and will stand a large 

 amount of heat, though not much cold. It would probably suit 

 the country further south better than Tennessee, though I have 

 seen it growing in Stewart county, having been brought there by a 

 Swiss family. It would probably grow on all our calcareous soils. 



