FEEDING VALUES OF GRASSES AND CLOVER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 3

FEEDING VALUES OF GRASSES AND CLOVER.

" Tin; meadow p i«-, w !i eh i* In >t on the lis " .ajs,anEnt;lHMWiiei\ 'Mn ludese'«>or and other horbatre, u hic'i clinches the txta^and n.niin\> the ia<io Tiio lioh old qi:i^ is of a 'omilai knu), but laii^vl) iMtnpo.-ed of deep rooting itu—cx am) clou'i, which lii\c taken po—e-sion ol )ho iji on ml to ilio e\clu>ion of weed*. With a mnov salio ot 1, 3. 6. 't inii't be regarded as peihap-, the veiy ohoiee-t food tor f.ittenint; and tini^hiiiLT "took. Kt-d flmci i> fivon m ttt o .-iairo 1 -. beioic 110 ( \ tiny, .unl wlion in )nll bloom The d.lkieneo in t.i\our ot thefonnoi i^ \ei\ maikcd It n^n -c -in a lemaik U'le tlnnu tii ti i.i '■o -hoi t t -p.iee of tune a^ i^ t.iken it,) benzoin the fir-t appeir.mee ot the flouei .md the 'nil bloo-n there should appear mi .trie it detei loiation m the nntiient i itio .it i n< toddei YU\* not due to am .leu.d h>-^ oi nnliinsent ed i)\ the i cp. but \o tlu> i.ipid tonna ion ot wood\ Line th.it i- goinjx on in the -teni-- ot the tliwi plant-. Theie will, double— . lie i ;4ioa' ineiea-e in t he total qn.nuit\ oltoodpo ai us ; but the founation ol tm.nl doe- u t uo on sso raj nil h a^ the t i mat ion o' w o ul\ matter, which injnu> the feeding qua iiy. Th.c -aim, thini; is noticed m Hie ca-e ot al^ike ilo\ei\ <mx\ indeed it is common lo all iriee.i foddeu-, but in the ci-Toithe^in-i-t"-propev the ot wo.tdy iitne at the bloomintr time i- not -o iapi(i a- in that of the elo\u-. \ etohe- in iluwei aiethcmo-t nutiitiou^ ot the p;uvu toii ci-, ami they maUe the me- 1 mm ltion- ha\. It i^ thus seen that u'cen (odder, and especially lecuininou-- |»;ant<, when m a >oun;jj and succulent -late beioie ilov.ennu, aie \eiy eoneentiated fond, and that thc\ lapidly lote that eh.uaetei uhenalloutd t.) mature, .-o that i ( i- far hctiei to cut them ( )o -uo i than to cut them too late.'