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THE CLOVER CROP. 



inorganic composition lias also been given in the analyses 

 already quoted. 



No. 1. Cow- grass (Trifolium medium?), Duke of Norfolk's variety. 1 



2. ,, ,, Ordinary. 



3. Crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) . 



4. White or Dutch clover (Trifolium repens)-. 



5. Alsike clover (Trifolium kybridum). 



6. Bokhara clover (Melilotus leucantha). 



7. Yellow clover (Trifolium procumbens). 



These analyses are very valuable, as they afford a 

 sound and safe means of calculating the feeding values 

 of the several species, and tend to show how greatly we 

 err in the estimates we have formed in reference to some 

 of them. The White and the Yellow clover are generally 

 looked upon as very inferior for forage purposes to the 

 Red clovers, whereas their percentage of organic com- 

 pounds, especially of those containing nitrogen, is fully 

 equal to the best samples of the Red species. Again, the 

 Alsike clover appears to be a valuable species, and to 

 possess high feeding properties; and as this is a bolder 

 plant, of a more vigorous growth than the White and 

 Yellow species, its produce per acre, combined with large 

 percentage of organic compounds, should obtain for it a 

 more general introduction into our "seed mixtures" than 

 we at present are accustomed to recommend. 



1 See footnote in preceding page. 



