HEAVY SEEDS. IIr 
clover or trefoil, the place of which it takes. It starts growing in 
April, and flowers in June (the petals are pinkish in colour), 
throwing out plenty of feed right away throughout the summer, 
and it is distinctly a sheep-feeding plant. Like lucerne, it 
weakens if allowed to become over developed, and it actually 
dies after being allowed to stand to cut for seed. 
Should the crop be thin, it will be found a successful plan to 
allow its seeds to ripen, and, if the land is sufficiently clean, 
to turn a flock of sheep into it which will feed it, pull it down, 
and jam it well in, so that it will renew itself without further 
trouble or expense. Sheep do not always take to kidney vetch 
at first, but when they become accustomed to it they will thrive 
and do well on it. It is not at all times easy to establish, as it 
seems impossible to determine to a certainty, without previous 
trial, the land which is actually suitable for it; but when once 
it is established it will withstand any amount of drought. 
In colour the seed somewhat resembles that of trefoil, but 
the former is dirtier and more greenish in appearance, whilst its 
shape is smaller and more like an egg. 
If well ripened and harvested it will keep over-year, but an 
ordinary sample will not be found to germinate so well when 
kept over, and it very rapidly deteriorates in this respect. The 
quantity usually sown is 16 lb, to 20 lb. per acre. A bushel 
of seed should weigh about 65 lb., and each pound contains 
some 300,000 germinating seeds. 
Mr. E. Mornement, of Roudham, one ef the oldest and 
most experienced light land farmers in Norfolk, and who has 
for many years grown kidney vetch, writes to us as follows :— 
“For kidney vetch one thing is absolutely necessary. 
During the first two or three years as it grows rapidly, it must 
be kept fed very close, or sheep will ‘blow,’ and the plant 
deteriorate if allowed to run up at all. I should certainly grow 
nothing with it, as it will not bear to be in any way choked, 
