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Clovers thr,t Do Well. 
Practically, the clovers are confined to three species. First, red clover, 
natural to all soils that are adapted to the cereal crops, as wheat, rye, 
barley, oats and com, or such rich soils as do not heave under the frosts 
of Winter and Spring. If so, clover is apt to be thrown out, or at least 
to be so heaved as to be practically worthless, especially so from the fact 
that it is really a biennial plant ; that is, dying out at the end of the see* 
and year if allowed to seed. 
The next clover in general use is Dutch, or white clover. This does 
well on soils somewhat moist, although it will not stand flooding. It is 
not especially relished by cattle, and at some seasons is apt to give horses 
what is termed the slobbers ; that is, it causes them to form saliva to su(*h 
a degree that it drops from the mouth freely. Cattle do not relish it, 
and it can hardly be called good feed for horses. A small portion of it 
in a permanent pasture does not come amiss, yet it is so natural to many 
soils that, like the plantain, which the Indians have termed the white 
man’s foot, white clover they have called the white man’s grass. 
The only other variety of clover that wo can recommend for cultiva- 
tion, is Alsike, sometimes called Swedish clover. This does well on 
moist land, and even bears some flooding. We consider it the next in value 
to red clover, and altogether better pasture than white clover. It als® 
makes good hay on soils too wet for red clover. 
Undesirable Clovers. 
There are a number of other species of clover, some of them indigenous 
to the West, which we only mention as a caution against their being 
sown. These arc ; two species of so called Buffalo clover ; the upright 
and the running Buffalo clovers ; the upright or yellow clover ; and the 
low hop clover, a half-creeping variety. There is only one more variety 
worth mentioning, and this simply as a warning to farmers not to sow it, 
except for bee pasturage, and then only when it may not become a 
troublesome weed. We have reference to the tree clover or Bokhara clo- 
ver, specifically the white-flowered melilotus. It has been recommended 
as valuable for soiling ; that is, for cutting green for feeding to stock in 
stables. We give the same advice about sowing this clover that tho 
crabbed lawyer did to a young client who asked his advice about getting 
married — Don't. 
Alfalfa. 
The case is different with alfalfa, the Spanish name for a plant known 
botanically as medicago, and, in English by its French name Luzerne. 
