§axon Sheep—Bokhara and Sweet Clover* 
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Mr. G. will excuse us for adding some further infor¬ 
mation respecting liis flock in a private note accompa¬ 
nying the above. 
Inclosed I send you a few samples of Wool 
from some of my sheep ;—they were taken 
promiscuously. I could have picked finer 
samples, but the inclosed are about a fair 
representation. The average weight of fleece 
this year is 2 lbs. 14 ounces of clean Wool 
per head—no grown wether, (only 10 year¬ 
lings,) 5 rams; the remainder were ewes and 
lambs. My sheep were kept very short last 
summer and winter also, on account of scar¬ 
city of food. I have not lost one per cent— 
indeed I lost but one sheep, a ewe, which got 
drowned with her young lamb this spring. I 
believe it would have surprised you to come 
into my stable last winter, and seen the small 
quantity of food they received—there was 
not a haulm of hay or straw to be found in 
it. All was eaten clean, and I was obliged 
to go into the woods and haul leaves for lit¬ 
ter. I had a pair of steelyards on my hay 
mow all winter ; weighed the hay often ; fed 
potatoes and grain by weight, and not unfre- 
quently weighed straw and corn fodder. Cal¬ 
culating the whole to hay and the average 
quantity per head, per day, did not exceed 
one and half pounds—excepting my breed¬ 
ing ewes, which I commenced feeding 4 bush¬ 
els of potatoes per hundred, per day, and as 
much hay as they would eat besides, five 
weeks before lambing, and I raised from them 
at the rate of an hundred lambs from an 
hundred ewes. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
Bokhara and Sweet Clover identical. 
Gent :—I observe by your July number, 
that you call attention to the “ Bokhara 
Clover,” so called, by the extract you have 
published from the London Farmer’s Mag. 
Last spring, a year ago, I observed a notice 
of this plant in the papers of Philadelphia, 
stating that the stalks had been exhibited in 
April, thirteen inches long, and Informing 
the public, that it was grown by a seedsman 
in that city, who would be able to furnish a 
limited quantity of the seed, in the fall, to 
those .who might desire to have it. The 
name of this seedsman I have now forgotten ; 
however I immediately wrote to a friend in 
the city, and requested him, by all means, to 
procure me such quantity as he could, and 
without limit as to price. 
Last fall he procured for me a small pack¬ 
age containing about one hundred seeds, for 
which he paid to the grower of it one dollar. 
Highly pleased that I had procured it, I pre¬ 
pared a small patch in my garden this spring, 
and drilled the seed into it about the 1st of 
May. I had not long to wait for its appear¬ 
ance, for it soon sprouted. I was anxious to 
call attention to it as early as possible, and 
you may judge of my astonishment, when I 
tell you I was no little laughed at for the 
speculation I had made. I first pointed it to 
Mrs. H. She smiled and exclaimed, “ That is 
the ‘ sweet clover V we had it in my father’s 
garden ever since I can recollect, and it 
abounds through the gardens of this state as a 
flower plant, by the name of ‘ sweet clover.’ ” 
I requested her to examine it particularly, 
which she did, again affirming it to be the 
same plant, and offered to procure the seed 
for me at the rate of sixpence the hundred 
grains, instead of the dollar that I had paid. 
Her assertion with regard to it was after¬ 
wards confirmed by mnay others who recog¬ 
nised the old plant under its new name at 
once. Still I was not exactly satisfied. I 
was not willing to believe that I had been 
hoaxed. This morning I received your paper 
from the office, and at once observed the 
name of “ Bokhara clover.” I spoke it 
aloud, when Mrs. H. observed, that if I would 
walk to a garden a short distance, I could see 
it in full bloom. I immediately started, and 
asked permission of the lady in whose garden 
it was, to examine her “ sweet clover” 
plants. I had not the opportunity of seeing 
it in bloom, as she had very recently broken 
the tops off to prevent their seeding, as it 
was becoming a nuisance in her garden. I 
however examined the plants below where it 
was broken off, and I now can add my testi¬ 
mony to that of others, that “ Bokhara 
clover,” so called, is identical with what has 
been known in Pennsylvania and grown here, 
“ time beyond which the memory of man 
runneth not to the contrary,” under the 
name of a “ sweet clover.” 
I would not endeavor to lessen the value 
of the plant. I have no doubt but that it 
will form a valuable acquisition to the crops 
of field plants already in use ; but I would 
wish to call the attention of those who can 
procure it easily and cheap, that the seeds 
may be taken care of, and instead of being 
permitted to go to waste, be furnished to 
those who wish to experiment with it in field 
culture. 
Strip the thing of all mystery, and do not 
permit those who are really anxious to be in 
the front ranks of the “ improvement army,” 
to be imposed upon in the price of the article. 
Let it be known, that the “ Bokhara 
1 clover,” so called, is the “ sweet clover” oi 
