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riety are, that it does not heave out of the ground in 

 spring with the frost, and^ consequently, it can he 

 sown on damp ground with good results. It makes 

 finer and better hay, for the stalks are not so thick 

 and woody as those of red clover. It yields about 

 one-third more seed to the acre, and, when threshed, 

 the hay makes excellent feed for calves and sheep. 

 Among its disadvantages may be reckoned its rank 

 growth, rendering it liable to be lodged. 



Mr. Chauncy Miller, of the Shaker Family, near 

 Albany, says of it : We find the Alsyke Clover a 

 very superior grass in the following points . 1st. For 

 its value as a hay crop on a great variety of soils. 

 2nd. For its fineness of stalk or haulm. 3d. For its 

 multitude of sweet flowers, blooming, perhaps, three 

 or four times as much, as red clover, making, 

 when in bloom, literally a sea of flowers. 4th. Its 

 adaptability to heavy soils, clays, or heavy clay 

 loams (as well as sandy soils), not being so liable to 

 heave out by frosts in winter and spring as red clo- 

 ver, being the product of a cross between the red and 

 white clovers originated in Germany. 5th. To all 

 farmers who keep bees largely the crop would be of 

 great value in its season of flowering, which lasts 

 about six weeks;' the bees are continually on it, 

 "from dewy morn until dusky eve." 6th. To those 

 farmers raising clover seed for market, the Alsyke 

 Clover, in our opinion, would be of great value, as it 

 seeds enormously, and the seed threshes easily, by 

 flail or machine, leaving a beautiful quality of hay, 

 the stalks retaining their greenness when the seed is 

 ripe. 7th. It holds many weeks in bloom, thus giving 

 the farmer lee way of time and weather to se'cure the 

 hay crop. 



