406 



PASTURAGE AND OVERSTOCKING. 



If cut early to be used as forage, it blooms later than white 

 clover and till frost. It is a biennial. 



According to the Department of Agriculture of the United 

 States there are two kinds of yellow melllot, "Melilotus offl- 

 cinalis" (Fig. 162) a biennial, and "melilottis Indira," smaller 

 and annual. 









Fig. 161. 



SWEET CLOVER. 



Melilotus Alba. 

 (Prom Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris.) 



The different varieties of smart-weeds (Persicaria) , golden- 

 rod, buckwheat, asters, iron-weed, Spanish-needles in low 

 lands and marshy places, give a very abundant honey-crop 

 in the latter part of the Summer. They form the bulk of 

 what is called the "Fall crop" in this latitude. 



