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viciaefolium.  The largest area for these appeared to be devoted
to alfalfa and many strains are said to exist, which is to be expected
as northwestern Persia is its origin in cultivation.  The
species is widely present as an escape or simply wildly spontaneous.
Efforts to secure seeds of such plants, however, were frequently
frustrated by animals that usually cropped the plants before seed
maturation.

Trifolium pratense is seeded in grazing pastures, while T.
resupinatum, or Persian clover, is more commonly cultivated for
cutting along with the small plot garden vegetables.  It appears to
grow best at elevations above 6000 feet.

Onobrychis viciaefolium, or sainfoin, is preferred by some
cattleman of Azerbaijan Province to alfalfa, as they stated it was
better liked by cattle, gave higher milk production, and cured more
easily.  It is strong-stemmed erect perennial lasting for three
years, normally affording two to three cuttings per annum, and was
reported to average more tonnage per cutting than alfalfa, although
somewhat less on a per annum basis.  A powderery mildew badly infected
many fields of this forage during August and September in the Azerbaijan 
Province.  All of these cultivated forge legumes have relatively
high water requirements, and so far as observed are cultivated
in Iran by irrigation.

In listed grains are included wheat, rye, maize, millets, and
barley, although the latter certainly has as much use as forage as it
does as grain.

Among the oil seed cultivates collected is a series of the 
small-seeded [illegible] which Popova recognized as a separate species.
        