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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 318, 29 June 1889, Page 3

Attention may be drawn to the success of the Sainfoin plant in the dry regions of America. The Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado, has experimented with the new forage for the last four years, and the professors’ statements agree that they have confidence in the future prospects of Sainfoin fa the “ great American desert.” The plant is Very easily grown, and is well adapted for dry, Mfiy land, It Will not pro dace such heavy crops as luaoma docs, but the quality of hay is far superior and fully equal to clover, and by some preferred to the latter. As a fertiliser it stands fully equal to lucerne and clover. Its long tap-roots penetrate the ground 10 to 15 feet, and by the decay of the roots from year to year it improves the soil in a high degree. After ploughing under a field of Sainfoin the ground is left in ths best condition for growing all kinds of grain. It suotSeeds with very little moisture. It starts earlier in the spring thin any other grass, and remains greefi later in autumn. As a Iproof of the value of the plant, there has lately been an extraordinary demand for seed in America, and many stockmen are hopeful of converting their plains, formerly considered worthless,! into green and rich meadows. From what we can learn Sainfoin appears to be a forage plant that might lie grown more extensively in Ameriga- Baron you Miieller in his “Select Extra Tropical Plante’’says that -< the Sanfoln, or Ssparaette, is fond of marly soil, and living in dry localities, It prepares calcareous soil for cereal culture. It prospers ylll where Rad Clover &nd Lit was no longer exist. The plant will hold cut from five to seven years,"