HAGI AS A FORAGE CROP. 
39 
It should be kept in mind that the produce quoted for lucerne 
and clover represents the medium amount obtained in central 
Europe, and that in Japan where the winter is shorter, it will 
certainly be somewhat larger. Making due allowance for this, 
the yield of digestible nutrients in the hagi crop still compares 
favorably with that of the other forage plants of the same 
family. 
Since 1888 another variety, JLe spedeza bicolor, var. 
Sieboldi, Maxim., know«—»s j natsu hagn has been cultivated by 
us. Roots of it were planted early in the spring of 1888 on a 
plot adjoining that of the variety intermedia, and threw up a 
considerable number of shoots, which attained a height of about 
0.8 metre and were cut off in the following winter. In 1889 
and 1890 three cuttings taken from this plant gave the following 
results : 
Green fodder. 
Hay. 
kilogrms. 
kilogrms. 
1889 
ist cutting, May 24th. 
... 918.2 
227.3 
2nd ,, July 19th . 
... 487.3 
145-8 
3rd ,, October 14th 
... 301.8 
118.3 
Total. 
...1707.3 
4914 
1890 
ist cutting, June 14th. 
... 658.1 
207.0 
2nd ,, September 10th ... 
... 948.0 
3094 
3rd ,, November 13th ... 
... 63.7 
22.5 
Total. 
... 1669.8 
53 8 -9 
The yield of hay produced 
by natsu hagi 
is accordingly 
considerably smaller than that 
of common hagi and does not 
equal a medium crop of clover in 
central Europe. 
Such a result 
was to be anticipated as this plant is much smaller than the 
other variety of Lespedeza. 
The analysis of the crop of 1889 gave the following results : 
