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in a very short time a rather big spot with a thick turf, preventing 

 the grasses, the main thing in the meadow to come through. There 

 is no exaggeration in our assertion if we say, that the presence 

 of a single plant is, soil and weather permitting, capable of covering 

 in one season a plot of land a couple of square yards in size. 



The only remedy here would be to have the pasture thoroughly 

 manured with stable-manure or have it grazed off for a few suc- 

 cessive years. Doing so, the grasses will find more assistance than 

 the clovers to make headway and to overrule in the long run 

 the latter. 



As for the stocfe-seed to be used, here like in every such case 

 we would say, that next to the cleanliness of a sample, it is the 

 size of the seed which should decide, as producing the biggest 

 plant. Amongst the European-grown origins, it is the seeds grown 

 either in Holland or in Great-Britain which are considered the 

 largest grain and which, moreover, may be taken as free from 

 dodder deserving, therefore, to be classified first. 



Vicia sativa (Spring Vetch). If on one hand the Winter Vetch 

 or Tare is found in Holland only as a rare exception, there is 

 on the other hand a good deal of attention paid here to the 

 spring Vetch. It may be that the greater portion of the soil here, 

 being heavy rich land, is not so well suited for the one, but 

 excellent for the other which accounts for that. It may be also 

 that the excellent quality of the H o 1 1 a n d-grown spring Vetch, 

 which is far superior to its foreign opponents, enables the farmer 

 here to obtain results which pay him well, whereas his colleagues 

 on the lighter soil have never been so well off with the winter 

 variety or have taken more to growing other agricultural plants 

 that have some similarity in purpose with the Winter Vetch. 



Now to deal first on the spring Vetch, this is decidedly a 

 magnificent plant, useful for many a purpose. Sow it in spring as 

 a separate crop, it will shoot up very rashly indeed and give an 

 excellent fodder after the first and before the second cut of Red 

 clover and Alfalfa. Or, if not cut at that time, let it stand over till 

 it bears fruit and ripens, have it then mown and give it then, 

 plant and seed to the cattle, it will again be a magnificent fodder. 

 Or, have the seed thrashed out, feed te cattle on the hay and 

 have the seed sold, or feed the latter unground to horses, or 

 ground and in connection with other meal to cattle, it is an 

 excellent fodder again. Let the plant after this shoot up again 



