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for us) our autumns as a rule are too damp for it to ripen. A 
fine hot autumn will bring it out, and when such is experienced, 
its appearance should be searched for, and the nuisance dealt 
with as soon as it is discovered. 
The seed itself is very small, and in appearance more like a 
grain of soil; if examined under a powerful microscope, it will 
be found to be an indented brown seed, of round formation. 
It can easily be extracted from other seeds by sifting with a 
silt sieve. ’ 
The infected ground is usually in the form of a circle, which 
gradually but surely continues to increase, the dodder con- 
suming or smothering everything of a green leafy nature where 
it exists; we are glad to state that here, at least, when it has 
consumed the clover it seldom reasserts itself. Most of the 
remainder of the many weeds which trouble the pasture grown, 
come, we think, under the head of annuals, which we propose 
to deal with when writing upon ‘“‘The After Management of 
Layers.” 
