WHITE CLOVER 27! 



furnish grazing In a moist year through all the sea- 

 son of grazing. Both have the property of retain- 

 ing their hold indefinitely in many soils and of 

 soon making a sward on the same without being 

 re-sown, when the cultivation of the ground ceases. 

 The blue grass grows quickly quite early and late 

 in the season, and the clover grows likewise during 

 much of the summer. As the older plants of the 

 clover fail, fresh ones appear, and the blue grass 

 feeds on the former in their decay. They thus 

 furnish humus and nitrogen for the sustenance of 

 the blue grass. 



But much moisture is necessary in order to insure 

 good blue grass pastures, and they are more luxuri- 

 ant when the moisture comes early in the season, 

 rather than when the plants are nearing the season 

 of bloom. To such an extent is white clover influ- 

 enced in growth by such weather, that in some sea- 

 sons it will abound in certain pastures, while in 

 others it will scarcely appear in the same. Those- 

 favorable seasons are frequently spoken of as being 

 "white-clover years." 



While this plant furnishes good grazing for all 

 kinds of domestic animals kept upon the farm, as 

 a pasture for horses and mules, there is the objec- 

 tion to it that it will in a considerable degree so 

 salivate them that much "slobbering" follows. This 

 is sometimes produced to such an extent as to be 

 seriously harmful. The trouble from this cause in- 

 creases as the seed-forming season is approached. 

 It has been known thus to salivate cattle, but the 

 danger of injury to them from this source is slight. 



