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CHAPTEE IV. 

 THE CLOVERS. 



Red Clover. 



Seed weighs 64 lbs. per busheL 



Standard of germination, 90 per cent. (Some seeds- 

 men guarantee 95 per cent.) 



Dr. Steblee says very justly that this plant has had 

 a considerable influence on, and is of general interest 

 in connection with, European civilisation. By greatly 

 augmenting the supply of meat necessary for the sup- 

 port of human life it, indirectly, has heen a source of 

 energy by which science, industry, and commerce have 

 received an immense development. For forage and 

 house-feeding during the summer it is of more import- 

 ance than any other forage plant, — although it does 

 not succeed everywhere, and requires more attention 

 and more skill than the majority of other forage plants. 

 It can be depended to prosper only in well-prepared 

 fertile soils, on which clover has not been grown for 

 several years. 



Of Eed Clover there are two principal varieties, viz. : 

 (a) Trifolium pratense (Linn.), var. perenne: — other- 

 wise (and perhaps more correctly) Trifolivm, pratense, 

 va,T. pratorwm ; — (this variety is sometimes erroneously 



