. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. 333 lose who grow qually well, or iheep are kept itured by them uld be a great they cannot be sainfoin is sub- (see Page 97). imonly sown by no good reason I the grain drill, rse crop, accord- looked upon as a f Great Britain. time. In Scot- rfolk, pickpurse. )r instance, Den- le parts of Ger- y esteemed as a is also valued for pecially valuable cows. Animals jury from bloat. to the pasture at fond of it, both also claimed that tening properties. hic
. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. 333 lose who grow qually well, or iheep are kept itured by them uld be a great they cannot be sainfoin is sub- (see Page 97). imonly sown by no good reason I the grain drill, rse crop, accord- looked upon as a f Great Britain. time. In Scot- rfolk, pickpurse. )r instance, Den- le parts of Ger- y esteemed as a is also valued for pecially valuable cows. Animals jury from bloat. to the pasture at fond of it, both also claimed that tening properties. hich grows from in hight, accord- las come into the. market under the name of "giant spurry" is simply the ordinary spurry. It is not capable of making a stronger growth than ordinary spurry, as the name would indicate. The stems of spurry are numerous and exceedingly branched. They are fine in char- acter, and they so interlace as to make it difficult to walk through the crop in an advanced stage of growth without tripping. The flowers are very many, are not more than one-eighth of an inch in diameter and are white in color. The seeds are small. They are contained in small seed heads resembling those of flax, but not more than half as large. They vary from dark brown to black in color. The plants seed profusely. On some soils the yield of fodder has been estimated as equal to that of clover, but ordinarily it would not be so much. The plant has special adaptation for light, sandy soils, and for climates that are moist. Whether it will be given a place of much prominence in our agriculture has yet to be determined. On productive soils it is not likely to come into general favor, since other plants equally nutritious will give greater yields. But on light, sandy soils low in fer- tility, it should render valuable service where mois- ture is sufficiently abundant. But few of the agri- cultural experiment station reports even mention spurry, hence testimony regarding its a
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