Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . er dressing. 39. White Melilot. Sweet Clover. Bokhara Clo- ver. (B?) Melilotus alba, L. This tall weed with slender stems 4 to 6 ft. long tipped with slender spikes of small white blossoms, and sparse sweet-scented clover-like leaves, is valued in some sctions as a forage plantwhen the cattle have been trained to eat of it, andas such has been somewhat cultivated in this these points of cultivation it has escaped andbecome a coarse weed, which cattle here utterly re-fuse to eat of except when it is cur
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . er dressing. 39. White Melilot. Sweet Clover. Bokhara Clo- ver. (B?) Melilotus alba, L. This tall weed with slender stems 4 to 6 ft. long tipped with slender spikes of small white blossoms, and sparse sweet-scented clover-like leaves, is valued in some sctions as a forage plantwhen the cattle have been trained to eat of it, andas such has been somewhat cultivated in this these points of cultivation it has escaped andbecome a coarse weed, which cattle here utterly re-fuse to eat of except when it is cured or young andvery tender. The plant grows with us mostly alongditcries and roadsides and in waste places in the val-ley counties, and near the larger towns in other por-tions of the State ; where, though sweet-scented andand graceful, it is unsightly and uselesss. Thoughhaving reason to doubt its value here as a fodder, Ihave none as to its classification as a weed. The cultivated plant, according to the analysis ofmover. tne Massachusetts Station gives about the following. 230 food constituents: Protein, ; nitrogen free extract ; crudefibre ; ether extract (fat, etc.) ; thus giving a wide nutritiveratio of 1 The best method of utilizing this weed is to grub it out while inflower and compost it. Treated thus, the following table will showfor it -a higher value as a manurial substance than as a food : Mass. Analysis. W. Va. Analysis Nitrogen, Potash, 1 95 Phosphoric Acid, •43 ?50 The Massachussetts analysis thus gives it a value of $ per dryton and ours $ ; its average value is therefore $io. 40. ITellow LiOCHSt. (P.) Robiniapscudacacia, L. This common tree whose north-eastern limit is within theboundaries of this State, often proves a troublesome weed by itspersistence in sprouting from the root or stump, as well as its capac-ity and frequency of seeding in on lswns and meadow lands, as wellas in pastures. The onty method of sub
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