CHAPTER XL 



MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. 



The plants discussed in the previous chapters 

 can all be made to furnish soiling food in some sec- 

 tions of the United States with more or less profit. 

 In addition to these are other plants, possessed of 

 more or less adaptability in providing such food, but 

 their exact value for this use has not been determined. 

 The number of these is not very large at the present 

 time, bvit it will doubtless be increased as the years 

 move on. These plants will now be briefly discussed. 

 The following includes those which have been con- 

 sidered as possessed of sufficient promise to merit a 

 place in the discussion ; viz. : White or Dutch clover, 

 sweet clover, Japan clover, sainfoin, trefoil, the horse 

 bean, the velvet bean, kale, the sand vetch, the flat 

 pea, white mustard, the lupine, spurry, the artichoke, 

 prickly comfrey and sunflower. Some of these 

 plants will doubtless be found possessed of no little 

 v'alue in providing soiling food when they come 

 to be better understood. Something will also be 

 said of sacaline, the plant whose merits have been so 

 overdrawn by some seedsmen and others interested 

 in selling it. 



White Clover. — White clover (Trifolium 

 repens), sometimes called Dutch clover is so well 

 known that it is not necessary to give any detailed 

 description of it. It is native to both Europe and 



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