A USEFUL CLOVER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1060, 24 February 1911, Page 8

A USEFUL CLOVER.

i FOR'DAMP AND SWAIiPr COUNTRY. f > , Yesterday a Woodvillo resident forward- [■ ' *d portion of a plant and asked' for Some 1 particulars about it. ''It is," he said,' Spreading over a rust paddock that' I ; am-breaking up; and I would'liko to |: T6spw.it as-it.grows very strong, and ; 6flreails quickly, 'and stock like it very y 'The--plant is large -bird's-foot trefoil y (Lotus Major). It is a very fair spring t nnd early summer.'clovcr, which grows i well in swampy situations. The seed is i gcne'riilly fairly expensive—about 2s. to ; 2c. 6d."a pound—but only a small-amount should be sown per acre, say half a pound V together, with ordinary grass mixture. | That op- what is generally used in the {•-. Woodjiljo district for the kind .of r , grouh'd described. Tliis feed is a good i deal in favour on similar country in tho . Waikato.and has bsen proved, to bo use- [ ful. by.observations made at tlio Ruakura Experiment Farm. The plant provides a [ quantity of foixj during the spring and I thoxurly summer, but' during , tho rest i of. the year if niiist not'bo depended on, i . and- other herbage must be . provided. It t is . not" a permanent' plant, and if -it is l wanted for a number, of seasons should I bo allowed to. seed. . } Shortage of;feed is responsible for tho f -'large numbers', of. stock travelling about ; the. country just now in an effort to find "buyers .for -them at various saloyards, says the Wanganui "Ilorald." Large numbers of Hawke's Bay sheep have been transferred to. this coast, and we are informed on credible authority that fully luu.ooo-sheep have been offered at various :'sales in: WanganUi, Rangitikei, lianawatu, and Hawke's Bar during tho past ■ woek.\ Generally .speaking, 'there is no ■ wriotis lack of buvers on this sido of tho 1 island, 1 though bids do not in all cases, reach sellers ideas of valuos. ( ■ It; is quite a comtfton occurrence ■at £•■ Kuroa (Vic.) to see flocks of 1000 starlings. !• • Theyrare: welcomed freely ,in many>dis- {:. tncts v as''destroyers'of chterpillnrs, '