no THE CLOVERS— WHITE. 



The application of liquid manure is especially effective 

 in increasing the growth of White Clover. Not only- 

 does it yield to the plants already in existence such 

 nourishing properties as are exactly suitable, but it also 

 conveys to the land a considerable number of "White 

 Clover seeds which have passed uninjured through the 

 digestive organs of the cattle. An examination of the 

 dry residue taken from the bottom of a liquid-manure 

 tank showed that about 2 lbs. of such residue contained 

 no fewer than 11,816 seeds (or about one-fourth of an 

 ounce) of White Clover seeds, of which 62 per cent, 

 were capable of germinating.' 



The Seed. — There is a great deal of inferior White 

 Clover seed in the market. Buyers do not appear 

 generally to take so much interest in the appearance 

 and quality of White Clover as they do with Eeds, con- 

 sequently the quantity of old, brown, withered seed that 

 finds a market somewhere is far larger than one would 

 wish who had the interests of agriculture at heart. 

 Very few samples are entirely free from sorrel, while 

 a good proportion of samples contain the seeds of that 

 weed in strong proportion. Sorrel in the husk is of a 

 brown, earthy colour; and, shelled, it is a small triangular 

 seed that glistens : in either state it is easily recognised, 

 and samples containing it should be promptly rejected. 

 Another weed-seed that appears prominently in many 

 samples of White Clover is Eibgrass. This is not quite 

 so objectionable. Yet one does not want to pay the 

 price of White Clover for Eibgrass seed — the latter 

 being worth commercially only about one-tenth the 

 price of White Clover. The seeds of Corn Chamemile 

 are also found in many samples of White Clover ; but it 

 is stated that a little of this plant may be of advantage 



