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In the green state and before flowering, goals’s-rue is very readily eaten, and the nutritive value Nutritive 
is high. 400 Ibs, of hay containing 44 °/o of water contain: — value. 
Organic matter 78.7 lbs., composed of: 
Nitrogenous matter (N. < 6,25). ’ 17.1 °/o 
(albuminoid - nitrogen == 41.59 °/o, non - abnnrnotd 
nitrogen == 1.44 °%/o, 
Fat ! ‘ 7 ; . 1.4 %/o 
Fibre. ; : : ; : ~ BEL fo 
Non-nitrogenous extractives. ~ ee Pls 
The dry plant thus contains 4.5 °/o more nitrogenous matter than clover hay of medium 
quality. The percentage of woody fibre is also higher, but the amount of fat and of non- 
nitrogenous extractives is lower. It follows that goat’s-rue is a very nutritive fodder plant. 
The produce of the first cutting after sowing, taken on August 4 1882, from the same field, 
contained dry matter 78.2 °/o composed of: — 
Albumin h , ‘ : ‘ 10.5 °/o 
(albuminoid-nitrogen 4,14 °/o non-albuminoid nitrogen 
0.51 °/o) 
Fat ‘ : : : ; ; ‘ 1.8 °/o 
Fibre. ' : : F 35.3 %/o 
Non-nitrogenous oxeractly es. ; 30.6 °/o 
Harvesting, impurities and adulteration of the seed. Goat’s-1ne produces abundance of Harvesting 
seed which is easy to harvest. It is true, that the seeds ripen somewhat unequally, but, the seed. 
as the pods are not liable to fall off, cutting can be delayed, till all the pods are ripe. 
When the plants are dried, the seeds are threshed out. Impurities are rare, and adulte- 
ration is not attempted. 
Seed and amounts to be sown. (ood seed should have 98°/, purity and 32°/o germin- Seed quality. 
ation*) == 31°4°/, of pure and germinating seed. One |b. of pure seed contains 62,000 grains. 
An acre of ground requires 22 Ibs. = 6.9 Ibs. of pure and germinating seed, Vil- Amount to be 
morin, Andrievx & Co, of Paris sell the seed at about 10 d. per lb., so that seed for ancacre — 50? 
costs about 18 shillings. 
The seed is sown in spring, preferably without a protective crop. Since the seeds — Sowing. 
are larger than those of lucerne, they can be sown somewhat deeper. The plant is always 
erown by itself, never in mixture: if mixed with grasses, they soon cause it to perish. As 
with lucerne, so here, weeds are very hurtful; hence, in certain cases, goat’s-rue should be 
erown in rows which allow hoeing to be thoroughly done. Cultivated in this way, the 
largest produce is obtained. In the garden, goat’s-rue is well adapted for covering trellis- 
work, and for borders. 
Werner, in the experimental field at Poppelsdorf, grew Galega orientalis. Lik., which came from — Galega 
the Levant. He found that it developed more rapidly, in the spring, and was more herbaceous than _ orientalis. 
officinal goat’s-rue, though not so high in its growth, 
. *) This includes one-third of the hard seeds. New seed germinated, in 23 days, 12 °/o and 88 °/o of the seeds 
remained hard: old seeds, in the same time, germinated 21 °/o; 21°/o remained hard, and 58°’o became rotten. If the hard 
seeds are not taken into account, old seed has a higher percentage of germination than new. 
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