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apt to produce indigestions in the cattle fed 
it.(1) 
2d. The stems of clover, cut afler seeding, are 
— and woody, and no longer hold the leaf: and, 
3d. All plants, when permitted to seed, exhaust 
tres eel ; and to this rule clover is uot an exception. 
F’rom premises furnished by these facts, we would 
conclude, that the short period between the flower- 
ing and seeding of clover, is that in which its use 
would be most advantageous, whether regarded as 
a forage or as an ameliorating crop. | 
When seed is the principal object of culture, we 
cannot do better than to adopt the practice in Hol- 
land—where the first crop is cut before it flowers, 
and the second is reserved for seed. 
The largeness of the stems, the number of the 
leaves, and the aqueous quality of both, render it a | 
difficult business to make clover grass into hay; 
and the difficulty is not a little increased, by the 
brittleness or disposition of the drying grass to fall 
into pieces, during the process of handling. To 
meet this case two supplementary means have been 
employed; which enable you to house or stack clo- 
verina much greener, or less dry state, than would 
otherwise be safe. The one is, to scatter over each 
cart load, while stowing away for keeping, two or 
three quarts of sea salt: the other, to interpose be- 
tween two layers of clover, one of clean straw. By 
the first method, the whole mass is made accepta- 
a a 
(1) 'This effect of clover (which we call hoving’ is prevented in Alsace, by water- 
ing the cattle before giving them clover, because a certain quantity of water prevents 
Sermentation. 
