American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . describe it as an annual, as does , above referred to; while Prof. Rains,who gives a chemical account of it in the South-ern Cultivator for November, speaks of it as aperennial. The plant grows a foot or morehigh, and bears three-parted leaves which arenot very abundant. The flowers are small; oneis borne in the axil of each leaf and followedby a small, one-seeded pod. The agriculturalvalue of the Lespedeza does not seem to be satis-factorily determined. Mr. Cartledge says: Itis, without doubt, a valuable plant. All kinds
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . describe it as an annual, as does , above referred to; while Prof. Rains,who gives a chemical account of it in the South-ern Cultivator for November, speaks of it as aperennial. The plant grows a foot or morehigh, and bears three-parted leaves which arenot very abundant. The flowers are small; oneis borne in the axil of each leaf and followedby a small, one-seeded pod. The agriculturalvalue of the Lespedeza does not seem to be satis-factorily determined. Mr. Cartledge says: Itis, without doubt, a valuable plant. All kindsof stock and fowls are fond of it and thrive wellwhen and where it is plentiful. Chickens willscratch after the seeds and keep fat all winterwhere they are abundant. It will grow well ina pine thicket where nothing else will say that it is eaten only by cattle. Thechemical analysis above referred to shows that itought be a nutritious food, but the writer thinksthe woody stems will prove an obstacle tousins it as cured fodder, unless it be LESPEDEZA STRIATA. 58 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [February, To us it seems that the most important aspectof the plant is the possibility that it may supplythe place of clover as a crop to turn under as afertilizer. Clover has been the great want ofSouthern agriculture, and if its equivalent shallbe found iu the Lespedeza, it will be a hope to hear more of the new plant. Cross-Cut Drag-Saws.—30 Years Experi-ence. Thirty years experience in the use of dragsaws ! We conclude our correspondent,— Ferguson of Fay Co., Ind.,—is one ofthe real western pioneers, in whose track themighty forests of the then West reeled and fell,whose ringing axes and rasping saws made thewild music of the wilderness. The drag sawis the pioneers companion indeed, but it is ofeven greater value when the forests are gone,and wood worth too much to have the logs cutand butted with the axe in preparing themfor the saw-mill. Mr. F.
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