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on some soils to very great profit, as a hay crop. In an 

 article for the New England Farmer, for May, 1853, he 

 speaks as follows : — 



" The more general sowing of white clover-seed is con- 

 fidently recommended. If land is in good heart at the time 

 of stocking it to grass, white clover sown with the other 

 grass-s(feds will thicken up the bottom of mowings, growing 

 some eight or ten inches high, and in a thick mat, and the 

 burd«n of hay will prove much heavier than it seemed likely 

 to be before mowing. Soon after the practice of sowing 

 white clover on the tillage-field commences, the plant will 

 begin to show itself in various places on the farm, and 

 ultimately gets pretty well scattered over the pastures, as it 

 seeds very profusely, and the seeds are carried from place 

 to place in the manure and otherwise. The price of the 

 seed per pound in market is high ; but then one pound of it 

 will seed more land, than two pounds of red clover seed; 

 so that in fact the former is the cheaper seed of the two, for 

 an acre." 



" Red-top, red clover and white clover seeds, sown to- 

 gether, produce a quality of hay universally relished by 

 stock. My practice is, to seed all dry, sandy and gravelly 

 lands with this mixture. 'The red and white clover pretty 

 much make the crop the first year ; the second year, the red 

 clover begins to disappear, and the red-top to take its place ; 

 and after that, the red-top and white clover have full pos- 

 session and make the very best hay for horses or oxen, 

 milch cows or young stock, that I have been able to produce. 

 The crop per acre, as compared with herds-grass, is not so 

 bulky ; but tested by weight and by spending quality in the 

 Winter, it is much Jhe most valuable." 



" Herds-grass hay grown on moist uplands or reclaimed 

 Bieadows, and swamps of a mucky soil, or lands not over- 

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