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EXAMINATION OF CLOVERS. 



which the flesh-forming and other nutritive substances 

 must be drawn ; while in Timothy the water amounts 

 to only a little over 57 per cent., leaving 43 per cent, of 

 solid substances containing nutritive principles. 



This is an important difiference, to begin with. The 

 percentage of flesh-forming principles of the two plants 

 does not, at first sight, appear to difier very materially, 

 the clover containing 4.27, the Timothy 4.86 ; but a lit- 

 tle consideration of the exceeding value of this con- 

 stituent will show that the latter has an important 

 advantage in this respect over the clover. In fat-form- 

 ing principles the Timothy is more than twice as rich 

 as clover; while in heat-producing principles — also very" 

 valuable — Timothy far surpasses clover, the one pro- 

 ducing 22.85 per cent., and the other only 8.45 per cent. 

 Of waste and useless matter in the shape of woody fibre 

 Timothy contains the largest per cent., while the larger 

 quantity of mineral matter shows it also to be a greater 

 exhauster of the soil. The most valuable practical de- 



Tablb VII. — Analysis of Artificial Grasses. 

 (100 parts, as taken from thefidd.) 



Kame of Plant. 



Bed Clover, 



Perennial Clover, .... 



Crimson Clover 



Cow Orass 



Cow Grass, 2d specimen, . 



Hop Trefoil 



White Clover 



Common Vetch, 



Sainfoin, 



Lucerne, or Al&lfa, . . . 

 Black Medick, or Nonsuch, 



1.82 

 1.58 

 1.75 

 3.01 

 1.77 

 1.37 

 2.08 

 1.11 

 1.84 

 3.04 

 2.S1 



