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without interfering with the next growth of the clover. The clover is 
usually allowed to reseed itself. But little of the seed is sold in the 
market, and it is usually sown by farmers without being cleared from 
the burs, or pods. One serious objection <o the plant is the liability of | 
the burs to infest the wool of sheep. 
There is another species, called spotted medick (Jledicago maculata), 
which is often confused with this, and is probably the more common 
east of the Rocky Mountains, but the two are much alike and of about | 
the same agricultural value. 
Only Medicago denticulata is mentioned by Professor Watson in his 
Botany of California as being found in that State. 
J. W. Alesworth, Slack Canyon, Monterey County, Cal.: 
On the coast, where the climate is moist, bur clover makes a rank growth and is 
considered good feed late in the season. My place being 40 miles from the coast 
and 1,410 feet in altitude it only grows here to a limited extent, though it is gradually 
extending. When I came to this place, in 1870, there was none here. Bur clover is 
good, rich feed, but is not sought after by stock until the other clovers and alfilaria 
are gone. 
Daniel Griswold, Westminster, Los Angeles County, Cal.: 
It is grown in all the lower valleys of California wherever the land is not very 
salty, but scarcely any is found in the high valleys. It grows large and falls down 
and curls around so that it is very difficult to mow, but all stock eat it on the ground, 
green or dry. The seed is never saved, though it is produced abundantly. ; 
O. F. Wright, Temescal, San Bernardino County, Cal.: 
It grows here abundantly on high lands, with alfilaria. These are the only plants’ 
on such lands that cattle willeat. They are never killed by cold here, but die when 
dry weather comes. Stock pick on the bur clover while growing (from January to 
June), and after it dies they hunt for the burs which are on the ground, and in their ~ 
efforts to get them they roll the old dry stems into rolls often as big as windrows of 
hay. 
S. H. McGinnes, of Belmont, Tex.: 
The California bur clover does well here, making good hay and pasture. It comes 
up in October and ripensin May. It takes but very few bunches to produce a bushel | 
of seeds (bnrs) and it only has to be planted once. Horses and hogs do well upon the 
burs after they ripen and fali off. 
Edwin C. Reed, Meridian, Miss. : 
Bur clover has been grown here toa limited extent, anda few who have grown it 
twelve or fifteen years find it all that could be desired for winter and spring past- 
ure. All stock eat it freely when they acquire a taste for it, and sheep and hogs eat 
the burslefton the ground. The plant reseeds iisclf, but the ground should be plowed 
and harrowed in August to secure an early winter pasture. It matures the Ist of 
June, after which peas may be broadcasted on the same land, when it will require no 
fall plowing. On rich lands it sometimes seeds in Bermuda beds, affording both win- 
ter and summer grazing. I have grown vines 6} feetlong, hip high, and as thick as 
it could stand. I prizeit above all other winter pastures. It is admirably adapted to 
the Eocene formation, where red clover does not succeed, and it is far betterif it 
did, as bur clover is a winter plant. 
