| in |Flesh- | || in |Flesh- |
| Fresh |forming | Ash. || Fresh |forming | Ash.
| Plant.|Matters.| || Plant.|Matters.|
+-------+--------+------||-------+--------+------
Clover cut on the | | | || | |
4th June, quite young | 82.80 | 13.16 | 9.71 || 83.50 | 27.17 | 9.42
23rd " ready for cutting| 81.72 | 12.72 | 9.00 || 82.68 | 27.69 | 9.00
9th July, beginning to | | | || | |
flower | 82.41 | 12.40 | 6.12 || 77.77 | 15.83 | 10.46
29th July, full flower | 78.30 | 9.28 | 4.63 || 70.80 | 19.20 | 9.58
21st August, ripe | 69.40 | 6.75 | 4.82 || 65.70 | 18.94 | 12.33
--------------------------+-------+--------+------++-------+--------+------

RESULTS OF WOLFF'S EXPERIMENT.

-------------+------------------------------++-----------------------------
| Red Clover. || Alsike Clover.
+--------------+---------------++---------------+-------------
| Beginning | Full || Beginning | Full
| to flower, | flower, || to flower, | flower,
| 11th June. | 25th June. || 23rd June. | 29th June.
+--------------+---------------++-------+-------+------+------
|Fresh.| Hay. | Fresh.| Hay. || Fresh.| Hay. |Fresh.| Hay.
+------+-------+-------+-------++-------+-------+------+------
| pct. | pct. | pct. | pct. || pct. | pct. | pct. | pct.
Water | 83.07| 16.66 | 76.41 | 10.66 || 86.98 | 16.66 | 82.60| 16.66
Ash | 1.43| 7.04 | 1.67 | 5.90 || 1.12 | 7.17 | 1.45| 6.94
Woody fibre | 4.24| 20.87 | 8.88 | 37.37 || 3.79 | 24.26 | 5.11| 24.47
Nutritive | | | | || | | |
substances | 11.26| 55.43 | 13.04 | 46.07 || 8.11 | 51.91 | 10.84| 51.93
-------------+------+-------+-------+-------++-------+-------+------+------

During the operation of converting the grass--"natural" or
"artificial"--into hay, there is more or less loss of nutritive matter
sustained by fermentation, the dispersion of the smaller leaves by the
wind, and other agencies. But this unavoidable loss is trivial when
compared with the prodigious waste