FOOD 



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Teub Clovees {Trifolium). 

 Eed or Broad Clover 



White or Dutch Clover 

 Swedish or Alsike Clover 

 Crimson or Italian Clover 

 Yellow Suckling Clover 



Allied Clovees (Medicago). 



Trefoil, Yellow Clover, or Hop 



trefoil 

 Lucerne 

 Sainfoin 

 Vetches 



Birdsfoot trefoil 

 Kidney vetch 

 Bokhara clover 

 Lupines 



Furze, Gorse or Whin 

 Serradella 





Fig. 67.— Red Clover (Fream; 



Fig. 68.— White Clover (Fream). 



Eed or Broad Clover, Trifolium pratense (Fig. 67). — 

 Grows on almost any soil, but only lasts two years. It 

 yields an excellent hay, but is liable to ' clover sickness ' 

 (see p. 167). There is a variety of it known as Cotv grass 

 which is much less liable, but it only yields one crop 

 instead of the two yielded by red clover, though it is suit- 

 able for permanent pastures which the latter is not. 



White or Dutch Clover, Trifolium repens (Fig. 68). — 

 This is a perennial plant found in prime pastures, it is 



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