Sainfoin.
Sainfoin is a most valuable Forage crop to grew for sheep, cuttle, ana horses. It will produce for a number of years the best hay, and it is a most healthy, nutritious and fattening food for sheep. It has long been the mainstay of the flock-masters over the greater part of England. It flourishes in all seasons, and especially so in time of drought, when other crops fail. Its strong tap root, many feet in length, with its numerous horizontal rootlets, obtains nourishment from the sub-soil to a great depth, far below the reach of the plough. After the seed is paid for, Sainfoin requires no manure or tillage, whereas corn crops, on an average cost besides the seeds, £3 an acre for manure and tillage. Sanfoin, like other leguminous plants, assimilates nitrogen from the air, and the soil gets richer from the nitrogen stored in the air, by the roots and leaves of the Sanifoin,. The long, roots, with their numerous rootlets, till and open up the subsoil, and when broken up the decaying roots help to enrich the ground.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 96, 21 August 1908, Page 3
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182Sainfoin. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 96, 21 August 1908, Page 3
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