Grasses and clovers, field roots, forage and fodder plants . tothirty inches distant from one another, six inches apart in the drill andfully three inches deep in prairie soils. As the seed is slow of germina-tion, that of some plant which springs up more quickly may be sownin the same drills, which will serve so to mark the line of the rows,that the cultivation may begin at an earlier period. It would seemnecessary to give the everlasing pea most careful culture during thefirst season, after which it would doubtless be able to take care of should not be eaten off the first year. And
Grasses and clovers, field roots, forage and fodder plants . tothirty inches distant from one another, six inches apart in the drill andfully three inches deep in prairie soils. As the seed is slow of germina-tion, that of some plant which springs up more quickly may be sownin the same drills, which will serve so to mark the line of the rows,that the cultivation may begin at an earlier period. It would seemnecessary to give the everlasing pea most careful culture during thefirst season, after which it would doubtless be able to take care of should not be eaten off the first year. And probably more fodder Fodder Crops. 99 will be obtained from it If not cropped off or cut too closely in the au-tumn in sections of country where the winters are severe. The propertime for cutting and curing the plants is apparently when they are infull bloom. Sacaline {Polygonuin sachalinense).— This new fodder plant isreceiving no little attention, both in Europe and North America, at thepresent time. Good authorities, several of whom have had some ex-. Sacaline. perience in growing it, speak hopefully with reference to its future inthe United States, and more especially in those sections where the rain-fall is insufficient. It is said to have been discovered by the Russian 100 Grasses, Clovers, Field Roots, Forage and Fodder Plants. explorer, Maximowicz, in the island of Saghalin or Sakhalin, situatedin the Sea of Okhotsk, between Japan and Siberia. This plant is leafy in its habit of growth. It pushes rapidly onwardduring the season of vegetation, and when not checked by cutting itoff, is capable of attaining the height of several feet in a single sum-mer. Its roots radiate from a centre and extend so quickly that in asingle year it is said they will occupy the soil over a radius of threefeet. The root-stocks are possessed of numerous buds, which throwup fresh stems as they extend. It is claimed that a single young plantwill produce enough root-stocks in one season to fur
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