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SHEEP’s PaRsLey (PETROSELINUM SATIVUM). 
Sheep’s parsley is also a fancy grass, but is advantageously 
used in mixtures for sheep feed, these animals being intensely 
fond of it. Game preservers will also do well to sow it in their 
coverts, for it is a great attraction to hares, and the seed is 
neither difficult nor expensive to procure. One great draw- 
back to it is that it lays a considerable time in the ground 
before making its appearance. 
When sowing, 20 pounds per acre will be found all that 
is required, but one pound, or even less, is quite sufficient for 
a mixture in the ordinary way. 
It is said to be an antidote to liver fluke. 
TaRes OR VETCHES (VICIA SATIVA). 
There appears to be about one hundred different kinds of 
tares, but the reader need not be alarmed by anticipating it is 
our intention to refer to them all. In our opinion it will be 
quite sufficient if we sub-divided the species into two varieties, 
winter and spring tares. The former should be sown during 
the end of September or in the early part of October, the land 
having been first well manured. Where an exceptionally 
heavy crop is desired it will be as well to give them a second 
dressing of good farm manure when the field is covered with 
snow or bound by frost, which enables the dressing to be 
carted on to the land without injury to the crop. It is not 
uncommon to dress tares in the early spring with nitrates; but 
those who use this dressing appear to forget that tares are 
leguminous, and collect nitrogen by their leaves from the air 
more than they do from the soil, hence phosphates are better. 
In selecting one’s samples the buyer should always take a 
written warranty from the seller that the samples he buys are 
winter tares, as it is impossible to distinguish the variety by 
