(38) 



Per cent. 



Potassium , 3.68 



Potassium oxide 35.72 



Sodium 81 



Calcium oxide 12.87 



Magnesium oxide 0.73 



Sulphuric acid 2.96 



Phosphoric acid 10,44 



Silicic acid 22.21 



Chlorine.... ., 4.58 



RED CLOVER (Trifolium pratense.) 



This valuable forage 

 plant was first introduced 

 into England in 1645, dur- 

 ing the stormy times of 

 Charles I., and rapidly met 

 with favor throughout the 

 kingdom. It properly be- 

 longs to the leguminous 

 family, which includes a 

 considerable number of 

 other forage plants that are 

 called artificial grasses, to 

 distinguish them from the 

 true or natural grasses 

 called graminece. The bo- 

 tanic name trifolium comes 

 from two latin words, ires three, and folium, a leaf, and in 

 England it is often called trefoil. It may always be known 

 by having three leaves in a bunch, and the flowers in dense, 

 oblong globular heads. 



There is no grass, natural or artificial, that is more useful 

 to the farmer or stock-grower than red clover. It has been 

 styled, with some show of reason, the corner-stone of agri- 



