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CHAPTER V. 

 OTHER FORAGE PLANTS. 



Lucepn. 



{Medicago sativa.) 

 Weigh-t per bushel, 64 lbs. 



Standard of germination — a good average seed should 

 have 98 per cent, of pure seeds, of which go per cent, 

 should be capable of germinating. 



Height about three feet. Flowers in June or July. 

 Eoot perennial, thick, branching, and penetrates very- 

 deep into the subsoil — sometimes ten or twelve feet. 



A writer in a recent number of the Agricultural 

 Gazette says that Lucern will grow almost anywhere if 

 there is a depth of soil ; but it requires a fine tilth and 

 a very gentle covering. Once successful, it may be 

 maintained for years with fair manuring and with very 

 little labour in hoeing. It is one of the most advan- 

 tageous grasses that we have. It yielded an immense 

 crop at the beginning of the summer, and might have 

 been cut a second time three weeks ago (letter dated 

 30th July), when it was fully ready and almost three 

 feet high, but is being given to cattle, thus maintaining 

 their milk and their condition at same time. 



Morton's Encyclcrpcedia says that nothing is so fatal 



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