(38) 



Per cent^ 



Potassium 3.68 



Potassium oxide 35.72 



Sodium 81 



Calcium oxide 12.87 



Magnesium oxide 0.73 



Sulphuric acid 2.96 



Phosphoric acid 10.44 



Silicic acid.... 22.21 



Chlorine 4.58 



BED CLOVER— (2H/o/mmprafense.) 



This valuable forage 

 plant was first introduced 

 into England in 1645, dur- 

 ing the stormy times of 

 Charles I., and rapidly met 

 with favor rhroughrut the 

 kingdom. It properly be- 

 longs to the leguminous 

 family, which includes a 

 considerable number of 

 other forage plants that are 

 called artificial grasses, to 

 distinguish them from the 

 true or natural gras.ses 

 called graminece. The bo- 

 tanic name trifolium comes 

 from two latin words, tres three, and folium, a leaf, and in 

 England it is often called trefoil. It may always be known 

 by having three leaves in a bunch, and the flowers in dense,, 

 oblong globular heads. 



There is no grass, natural or artificial, that is more useful 

 to the farmer or stock-grower than red clover. It has been 

 styled, with some show of reason, the corner-stone of agri- 



