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the lowest price at which they have yet been generally attain¬ 
able ; as, however, they are produced in abundance, and ripen 
freely, they may be expected soon to assimilate in cost with 
those of the more common clovers. The present compara¬ 
tively high price is, however, more apparent than real, see¬ 
ing that a given weight will produce about a third more 
plants than T. repens , and nearly three times as many as the 
same weight of seeds of T. pratense.”* 
We have, then, in the two clovers some important crop 
plants. The Carnation clover , which is an annual, is fed off 
in time to admit of the succession of a crop of turnips, so 
that two soiling crops are possible in one year, and these 
become an excellent preparation for barley; it, however, 
makes but poor hay. The Alsike clover is more or less 
perennial, and with a mixture of hay grass yields a good 
crop for two seasons, when, as a soiling crop, it is often valu¬ 
able, while it is no less so as a crop for the rick. We know 
of no better hay than may be made from the Alsike mixture. 
Wheat follows it very satisfactorily, and hence we have in 
this latter a variety of clover nearly, if not quite, as good as 
the red sorts, and yet it can be grown when these would 
fail. 
PUNCTURING AND EXERCISE IN THE TREAT- 
MENT OF PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. 
By Thomas Greaves, F.R.C.Y.S., Knott Mill, Manchester. 
The physiology and pathology of this septic disease 
were most clearly and ably reviewed in a scientific and 
luminous manner before the Liverpool Veterinary Medical 
Association, at their last meeting, by Professor Williams. The 
discussion which followed was most interesting. It referred 
chiefly to the treatment of the disease ; and since my method 
of treatment, the result of close careful observation during 
a tolerably long experience, seems to be at variance with 
that of some of the other members, I feel a desire to state 
my case more clearly and more at length. It is not my in¬ 
tention to discuss the cause or the nature 01 the disease, 
but simply confine myself to treatment, ihe medical pait 
of the treatment advocated seemed to be nearly the same by 
the various speakers, viz. aperient medicine, spirit of tur¬ 
pentine, and chlorate of potass; but puncturing the swell- 
* See Morton’s ‘ Cyclopaedia of Agriculture,’ p. 998. 
