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sufficient to keep them up, and those did also better on 

 the second crop clover hay through the winter and was 

 soonest sold to the butcher. But it is not only in soiling 

 and in the hay, that the detrimental effects of second 

 crop clover are felt ; grazing on this plant has been 

 found by many a very precarious business, and a neigh- 

 bour had to turn out his cattle last fall on the roads to 

 prevent them from starving on a profuse pasture of this 

 grass, yet on my farm cattle have done tolerably well 

 while grazing on fields, parts of vdiich had been previ.- 

 ously mown and given to them in the yards, and was 

 found so obnoxious that they w^ould scarcely cat suffi- 

 cient to keep them alive, from which it would appear, 

 that while at liberty in the fields, they either have saga- 

 gacity to select those parts of the clover plant which are 

 least injurious to them, or to find other plants calcu- 

 lated in some measure to correct its baneful effects, and 

 also that they may be soiled on the first crop of red clo- 

 ver, until it becomes too old for that purpose, and after 

 this turned out to graze, which would considerably in- 

 crease the quantity of first crop hay, as well as the ma- 

 nure, by which means their soils with the aid of gypsum 

 might in a short time be sufficiently enriched to grov/ 

 grasses suitable for a regular continuation of soiling 

 throughout the whole season. 



That there may be other plants which will slobber 

 cattle is by no means improbable, but it is thought they 

 cannot be numerous on this place or their effects would 

 have been discovered. 



Orchard grass is excellent for soiling cattle, it starts 

 early, continues late, grows rapidly through the whole 

 season, and incomparably faster than red clover in the 



