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If animals thrive and fatten upon any grass, and that grass 

 is perennial, hardy and durable, it is a good pasture grass; 

 otherwise not, whatever individual experiments in the lab- 

 ratory may indicate. We know that stock of all kinds eat 

 blue grass voraciously and thrive upon it; we know, also, 

 that they do not like the anthoxanthum. Both are alike 

 hardy and durable. Therefore the blue grass, upon suitable 

 soils, is to be preferred, whatever chemical research may 

 determine. 



WHITE CLOVER (Trifolium repens.) 



White clover has been lauded to the skies by some, and 

 by others depreciated as a vile weed. It is beyond question, 

 next to blue grass, one of our most valuable grazing plants. 

 Its analysis shows it to be equal to red clover in most re- 

 spects, and superior as a fat producing plant. 



It is to the pasture what red clover is to the meadow, 

 and is a suitable food not only for cattle and horses, but for 

 hogs. They thrive amazingly on it. After the first flower- 

 ing it salivates horses, but has no such 

 effect upon cattle or sheep. As a hon- 

 ey-producing flower, the white clover 

 is not surpassed by any plant, the 

 florets, some years, being almost full 

 of syrup. 



It varies very much in different 

 years, sometimes almost disappearing, 

 then again, another year, being thick 

 in every pasture. So much is this the 

 case, that we have what are called? 

 " white clover years." This is due to the presence or ab- 

 sence of rain. When there is a wet spring white clover 

 appears in great luxuriance everywhere, and in dry weather 

 it only shows itself in abundance on moist lands. 



