THE CLOVERS—RED AND COWGRASS. loi 



exhausts itself quickly, and stands frost so badly that 

 it often disappears the first winter. 



Eed Clover in a green state, and while in full flower, 

 contains 80 per cent, of water, which is 10 per cent, 

 more than what the grasses contain; and when the 

 clover plant is made into hay the proportion of water 

 is 16 per cent. During the process of haymaking (by 

 the ordinary process of saving) clover loses a quantity of 

 its leaves. Now the leaves constitute at least a fifth of 

 the total produce; and, as they are at the same time the 

 richest in nutritive matter of any part of the plant, it 

 follows that the loss in question is very serious, amount- 

 ing, as it sometimes does, to one-third of the feeding 

 value. 



The experience of all agriculturists goes to show that, 

 in feeding with a view to the production of milk, clover 

 in a green state has a decided advantage over an equiva- 

 lent quantity of clover hay. 



Cominon Bed or Broad Clover. — Writing of this plant, 



Mr. Martin J. Sutton says that it is quite unsuited for 



permanent pastures, but should form a large proportion 



of an alternate mixture. The prejudice against foreign 



\ especially that imported from America and France, 



3II founded. 



dls. — The Eed Clover plant succeeds best in rich 

 ny soil, also on good clays, and on soils of an alluvial 

 ,ure. Bog or marsh land does not suit it any more 

 in soils of a dry, sandy, or arid, chalky class. Peaty 

 ■il is also unsuitable, xinless it has been dressed with 

 aarl or lime. It especially delights in a well-mixed 

 soil, rich in vegetable matter, and containing a mode- 

 rate proportion of marl or chalk.- 



