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On Green or Fodder Crops. 
and, for the sake of a trifling saving of from 2d. to 3d. per lb. in 
seed, cultivate what is likelv enough to yield the worst instead 
of the best of its kind. There are also rare, common, and 
mongrel members of all the leading clover and grass families, 
^leution has already been made of the importance attached bv 
yir. Russell to having the true cow-grass, which comes to cut a 
fortnight after broad-leaved clover, and of which he obtains a crop 
of hay frequently weighing three tons an acre. Seeds are often 
palmed off on the farmer as being Trifolium pratense perenne, 
which do not belong to that tribe at all, but, on the contrarv, 
to those of coarse and inferior red clovers. Messrs. Webb and 
Sons' Imperial Giant Cow-grass is a variety between red clover 
and cow-grass, which many farmers speak well of as growing 
high, and yielding two, and sometimes three, cuttings a vear. 
Trifolium incarnatum is cultivated very generallv, still it is 
not made to render anvthin? like the valuable service it miffht 
do, in consequence of the stalks being allowed to get hard and 
sticky before the produce is consumed. Farmers might avoid 
this evil to a verv ^reat extent bv commencing to feed earlier, 
but there is another wav which does not appear to be so well 
known. Messrs. Sutton and Sons have propagated and brought 
to great perfection two later varieties of this crimson clover than 
the one usually grown, one of which they term Trifolium 
incarnatum tardum, or late red trifolium, which possesses all 
the productive properties of the earlier kind, but comes to feed 
a fortnight later. The other is termed Trifolium incaj-natum 
fardissimum Suttoni, or " Sutton's extra late, ' which must be a 
valuable kind, indeed, if all the allegations made in its behalf 
are correct. Messrs. Sutton and Sons say : " It comes in quite 
ten days after the ordinary late red or late white, and produces 
half as much food again as anv other varietv, and is verv 
hardy." 
Then again, in regard to vetches, there is the " Goa '* kind, 
which is a stronger-growing variety than cither winter or spring 
vetches. It has been most extensively adopted in Scotland and 
the North of England, and is often termed the " Scotch Gore " 
kind in other districts. Mr. Russell Swanwick prefers to sow 
it instead of spring vetches %vhen the seed is easily procurable 
and not too dear. 
Both Italian rye-grass and the common English rye-grass 
employed in alternate husbandrv are liable to great adultera- 
tion, and the tons of rubbish and injurious weed seeds which 
are marketed and sown on farms one vear after another may 
almost be considered a source of agricultural depression — one, 
too, of farmers' own seeking. Some truly frightful disclosures 
have been made from time to time where samples of ordinary rye- 
