. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. Fig. 79.—Ked c\oveT {Trifolium pratense). (After Piper, C. V.: Leguminous Crops forGreen Manuring. Farmers Bulletin 278, 1907, p. 15.)Fig. 80.—Stages in the development of red clover seed: a andV, Flower in prime andripe; b and d, immature and mature seed vessel; e, mature seed. (After Westgate, J. Hillman, F. H.: Red Clover. Farmers Bulletin 455, 1915, p. 9.) hay in digestible crude protein, but is lower in fat and contains slightlyless digestible carbo
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. Fig. 79.—Ked c\oveT {Trifolium pratense). (After Piper, C. V.: Leguminous Crops forGreen Manuring. Farmers Bulletin 278, 1907, p. 15.)Fig. 80.—Stages in the development of red clover seed: a andV, Flower in prime andripe; b and d, immature and mature seed vessel; e, mature seed. (After Westgate, J. Hillman, F. H.: Red Clover. Farmers Bulletin 455, 1915, p. 9.) hay in digestible crude protein, but is lower in fat and contains slightlyless digestible carbohydrates. Respiration experiments show that cloverhay furnishes slightly more net nutrients than alfalfa hay. Red Clover {Trifoliiim pratense).—Red Top is a biennial, or a peren-nial plant of short duration with spreading stems eighteen inches to two 192 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAX BOTANY feet tall and pubescent from a tap root, which reaches a depth of three tosix feet. The stipules are large at the base of a petiole, which is two tothree inches long, bearing three ovate to elliptic leaflets with an entirem
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