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white, cretaceous soils; ameliorates the condition of 
these, and holds them better together than any other 
plant. The following extract may give both instruc- 
tion and encouragement to those who would culti- 
vate this plant: “In Calabria, the sanfoin is sown 
upon wheat or other stubble, which is then burnt, 
and the ashes made to furnish a covering for the grass 
seed. Inthe spring, without other care or culture, 
the field is found covered thickly with sanfoin, and 
converted into a fine meadow. ‘This grass crop is 
cut and fed between May and August; when the 
ground is ploughed for grain, the crop of which is 
generally very abundant. But the advantages of this 
husbandry do not end here; for after the grain is 
_ harvested, the earth resumes its covering of sanfoin, 
which, in this way, is continued forty years and 
more, admitting every second year a crop of fine 
wheat.”(1) 3d. Like sanfoin and Jucern, Clover 
is of the leguminous family, and though less produc- 
tive than the other, has one advantage that gives it a 
decided preference ; viz. its growing well in a great 
variety of soils. In gravel, in loam, in alluvial and 
calcarious earths, it does well, and we have already 
seen that in poor and sandy soils it doubles the income 
of those who employ it—as well by increasing the 
quantity of forage, as by putting the ground into a 
state to yield many and abundant future crops of 
grain. Still there are soils (stiff, cold and wet) in 
which it does not succeed, and ought to give place 
to the gramineal family. 4th. Timothy. This grass, 
in Europe, is called herd-grass, cats-tail, or phleum 
(1) Grimaldi on the agriculture of Calabna. 
