CLOVER FOR GREEN FODDER. 137 



A. Clover is a more leafy plant than grass, and lies more open and 

 loosely in the swath or cock. It is upon this account that it is better 

 to put it in cocks and cure it in that way, both because it is easily in- 

 jured by over-drying and by exposure to the sun, and also by rain. To 

 secure it against rain while in the cock, hay caps are found useful. 

 These are squares of heavy brown cotton sheeting fifty-four inches 

 wide, bound at the edges and having a loop at each corner. One of 

 these is spread over a hay cock, and secured by pushing wooden pins 

 through the loops into the hay. If these are taken care of as they 

 should be, they will last a great many years. 



Q. Is Clover ever sold in a green state in the market in our large 

 cities ? 



A. At certain seasons there is a large demand for it; it is cut and 

 tied in bundles, which brings from twenty to twenty-five cents each. 

 It is thus given to city horses, not so much as a feed, but as a sort of 

 tonic or alterative. A heavy crop of Clover in this way is often made 

 very profitable, netting possibly four times as much per acre as when 

 dried for hay. In the vicinity of Edinburgh, Scotland, there are fields 

 of Clover which must produce not less than $500 per acre, when sold 

 in this condition; because the farmers renting such fields pay the 

 extraordinary price of fifty pounds sterling, or $250, per acre rent 

 annually. The conditions under which Clover is grown in this way are 

 peculiar. It is usually on land adjacent to the outlets of the sewage 

 from the city, which is utilized by being put on the land in the fall 

 and spring, and which gets it in such a condition of fertility that 

 sometimes even in that cold climate six crops are cut in one season. 

 I observed very recently that there was filed, in the office of the County 

 Clerk, New York City, the certificate of incorporation of the National 



