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plant is very highly valued for winter forage. An important fact in regard to 
the plant is its ability to thrive in alkali soils. It contains a bitter principle, 
which is sometimes pa as a remedy for intermittent fevers. Sheep and 
cattle grazed on lands where winter fat grows, increase in weight rapidly, and 
are said to be semanas free from disease. It is worthy of trial, and should he 
introduced into the pastures of all arid and semi-arid or alkaline grazing regions, 
Faba vulgaris. Horse bean; Broad bean; Common field bean; Straight bean. 
A coarse, erect, rank-growing annual of considerable value as a forage plant, grown 
in the eastern United States, and more extensively in Europe. The beans, 
which contain about 33 per cent of starch, are used for fattening eattle, but 
their use, if long continued without change or without proper admixture of other 
foods, often results in paralysis, on account of the bitter poisonous alkaloids 
which the seeds contain. 
Fagopyrum esculentum. Buckwheat; Common buckwheat; Japanese buckwheat; 
Silver-hull buckwheat. 
Buckwheat, the well-known annual cultivated for its seeds, is a native of northern 
Asia, and has been under cultivation about 1,000 years. It succeeds in cold 
climates on tle poorest ache or fodder or as green manure, clayey soils produce 
the largest crops. On account of the short season in which it matures, it is 
adapted to cultivation in ital latitudes and alpine regions. It is au excellent 
soiling crop, either fed alone or with oats or green corn, and is recommended for 
soiling milch cows 
Franseria dumosa. 
A shrubby plant reed to the cocklebur, which is one of the most characteristic 
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burs, which are eaten by cattle and horses, and are as fattening as grain. It also 
makes a very fine feed for sheep. It dries up after the winter rains, but becomes 
green after every shower. 
Gelactia glabella. Smooth milk pea. 
A low, prostrate or twining, perennial bean with nearly smooth stems, trifoliate 
leaves, and purple flowers in interrupted or nodding racemes, Commonin sand 
wood m New York to Florida and Mississippi. makes an excellent summer 
forage i milch cows, and adds value to woodland pastures. 
Galactia pilosa. Milk pea. 
Like the last species, but with stems and leaves soft and downy. It is of some value 
as a summer forage in the eastern United States. 
E E Galega officinalis. Goat's rue; Goat's clover. 
; À perennial jegume, m Serb Lene: eed pe 1} to 2 feet high, pinnate 
leaves, and p A forage plant of value 
on account of its resistance to drought, which has been recommended for the 
northern prairies and central Rocky Martin distriets. It is usually fed green, 
as it makes a poor quality of hay, and is not readily eaten by stock until they 
have become accustomed to its taste. The air-dried hay contains 17 per cent 
of erude protein 
. Genista scoparia. Scotch broom. 
A shrubby, perennial legume, native of Scotland. eae young growth is chiefly 
valued as a food for sheep and other animals in w 
Gleditschia triacanthos. Honey locust. 
leguminous tree 30 to 60 feet high, native of the eastern United States, The pu 
7 arè unt eui stock, and the young growth is e down y "m 
