;-40 On Soilitig Cattle, 



Unless a remedy for this malady in clover should be 

 discovered, it cannot, consistent with the preservation 

 of a necessary rotation, be used for soiling longer than 

 until the green grass or orchard grass are ready, without 

 recourse to the plough, which, unless under certain cir- 

 cumstances, may be found too expensive ; and if guinea 

 or broom corn is sown for this purpose, a gap will be 

 left between them and the clover, to be filled up with 

 some other green food, for v/hich purpose it is thought 

 timothy might answer, if the Guinea corn is sown early 

 on a good soil ; the patch of that plant mentioned in a 

 former communication, produced a better third crop 

 than was expected, from the late planting and complete 

 shade of woods on two sides of the patch ; it was left 

 standing until frost, and found as tender, or perhaps 

 more so than Indian corn. Q_uery, would gypsum be a 

 manure for this plant. 



Clover from the first commencement of its being af- 

 fected, has through the whole season afterward been in- 

 jurious to the cattle, and that as far as could be deter- 

 mined by the eye, in exact proportion to the mixture of 

 it contained in each load, unless the quantity of it mix- 

 ed among the other grasses was too small to produce 

 any perceptible effect; yet when the proportion of clover 

 did not exceed above one-third, both cattle and horses 

 eat it freely, and appear to do well, but as they still slob- 

 bered some, it is thought they would have done still 

 better, if the mixture had been much less, or if the red 

 clover had been altogether absent ; it was also very ob- 

 servable that they were not all affected alike, for while 

 the great majority were all but starving on clover, or 

 too large a mixture of that plant, a few continued to eat 



