122 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
clover and other soiling crops are over, and if the autumn be 
an open one, the tares will last on untl December; in this 
manner the crop will be found to answer fairly well so long as 
they receive sufficient moisture during Midsummer. Tares 
will be found to yield an abundant crop, but not such a good 
_ one, nor so nutritious as lucerne or sainfoin. The crop is, 
nevertheless, extremely valuable when used with old hay and 
other fodder ; also for ensilage. When making hay from tares 
they should be handled in the same manner as lucerne, 
although the hay at best is of indifferent quality. 
It should also be borne in mind that it is not advisable 
to give tares too freely to one’s stock. 
Provided tares are fed or cut before they flower, or com- 
mence to flower, they tend to strengthen and improve the 
land, because they are leguminous, After flowering they have 
an exhaustive effect, the more so as they become older, when 
they will be found to impoverish the land almost as much as 
peas, or other grain crops. One difficulty, however, presents 
itself here; the crop improves in feeding value as it 
approaches maturity, and if found to be comparatively poor 
feed in its youngest stages, few will deny the excellent quality 
of the feed when in full pod. 
Biue Lupins (LuPINUS AUGUSTIFOLIUS). 
YELLOow Lupins (LUPINUS LUTEUS). 
Lupins are little known, probably on account of the fact that 
they only thrive on the most suitable soil, which appears to be 
deep sand. 
Blue lupins, which are most in favour, are drilled in rows 
nine inches apart in May or June (similarly to peas or tares), 
one and a-half to two bushels per acre being used. If the 
land is suitable, no matter how poor the soil, the crop will be 
abundant. Sometimes the crop is ploughed into the land 
