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On Green or Fodder Crops. 
ing month among peas, which also furnishes stock in summer 
for transplanting. Extensive breadths of trifolium and trefoil 
are fed-off by the flock in May, which are kept ploughed up 
close to the sheep, not only in this month but in June, and, 
after being reduced to a fine tilth, form ground for abundant trans- 
plantings of all the three varieties named. The land is marked 
out 27 inches either way, and the plants are drawn and put in 
at IO5. per acre at all the points where the lines intersect, so 
that being set at equal distances from one another all over the 
entire expanse, horse-hoeings can be conducted down the length 
of the lands, across them, or in any other direction desired. 
Trifolium is a great favourite with Mr. Russell, and he certainly 
makes much more out of that plant than the generality of 
farmers are accustomed to do. Two causes contribute to this. 
He sows a large proportion of his seed early in August into 
stubbles where winter barley has been harvested. A thick 
abundant plant is in consequence generally ensured, which is 
very much protected in winter by the produce of the shed grain 
from the preceding crop. Then, in feeding, Mr. Russell does 
not wait until the trifolium blooms ere commencing, preferring to 
utilise the feed when the stalks are all succulent. Too many 
farmers, to obtain larger quantities, wait until they get hard and 
sticky, after which sheep merely bite off the tops and reject the 
remainder. When those incapable of prying into the true nature 
of things find three-fourths of the produce left, they blame the 
crop, and this is how trifolium obtains an ill name. 
Thousand-headed kale is in danger of suffering in reputation 
in a similar way, by allowing the crop to remain too long before 
being fed down, and there is the less occasion for this in the 
case of kale, as the plants will sprout again after being fed or 
cut almost close to the ground when not too old. At Mr, 
Russell's, early in August last year, I saw a cutting of thousand- 
headed being effected quite to the ground, and the plants had 
only been set out in June, but they were intended to sprout out 
again, probably for feed the ensuing spring. A large propor- 
tion of the breadths required by the ewes and lambs at that 
period of the year is, however, raised direct from seed sown in 
August, when 20 acres or more of the stubbles earliest rid of 
corn are ploughed, cultivated, and drilled with thousand-headed 
kale seed. This crop furnishes sheep-feed at the latter part of 
April, and sometimes up to the end of the first week in May. 
Mr, Russell has another favourite plant in a superior variety 
of cow-grass — Messrs. Sutton and Sons' "Single-cut." He obtains 
three loads of hay per acre from this, but it comes later than 
broad-leaved clover, and is not often harvested until July. Accord- 
ing to the Horton Court system, it is generally ploughed up after 
