But, just when the bright cluster of pink sainfoin blossom was within two inches of its teeth, it gave an extra nip, and the flower head fell to the ground, and the sheep resumed its search for greenstuff.
The Sainfoin is often cultivated in the South-East of England as fodder for cattle, but may frequently be found growing wild.
The wheat and rye and vetch and sainfoin fields look beautiful here; and, during the whole of the way from Andover to Rumsey, the early turnips of both kinds are not bad, and the stubble turnips very promising.
The sainfoin has given a fine crop of the finest sort of hay in the world, and, this year, without a drop of wet.
The sainfoin fields, though on these high lands, and though the dry weather has been of such long continuance, look as green as watered meadows, and a great deal more brilliant and beautiful.
As at present applied, the name Sainfoin appertains to Hedysarum Onobrychis, but the name was first given to the Lucerne Medicago sativa.
Suddenly the Sainfoin began to expand its delicate blossoms, and to the astonishment of Mary, formed a wreath around the head of the holy babe.
It has been observed, that trees suffer considerably by the neighbourhood of sainfoin and lucern, on account of the great depth to which the roots of these plants penetrate--whereas culmiferous grasses do them no harm.
If, however, there should be any doubt about pure sainfoin seed, we should recommend the decorticated seed being used, as in it the burnet could not possibly escape detection.
The permanency of sainfoin is yearly becoming greatly diminished from the circumstance that its seed is so much mixed with that of the burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, var.
We have seen this trefoil grown with sainfoin to great advantage, as it yields a tolerable crop for the first two years, and then declines, just as the sainfoin has got possession of the soil.
There is, however, a larger form of the false burnet, which is now attracting considerable attention, as being by far too constant an attendant upon sainfoin seed.
Sainfoin has been much cultivated on calcareous soils, more especially on the free-stones of the oolite rocks, and on the chalk, off which formations it is scarcely known, except on some calcareous sands in the eastern counties.
The feeding value of sainfoin is much the same as that of alfalfa.
It has been found more difficult to get a good stand of sainfoin plants than of other varieties of the clover family.
Since sainfoin is perennial in its habit of growth, and since, when once well set, it will retain its hold upon the soil for several years, it is not in the strict sense of the term a rotation plant.
The plan of sowing 2 to 3 pounds per acre of the seed of alsike clover along with the sainfoin would doubtless be found helpful under some conditions, as it would tend to thicken the crop, more especially the first season.
Sainfoin is a good pasture plant when properly grazed.
Because of this it is specially important that sainfoin shall be sown on a clean seed-bed.
Sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa) Oregon Experiment Station] Its adaptation to the United States does not appear to have been proved yet, except in limited areas.
Some of these, as Sainfoin and Buffalo clover, have been in the country for several years, and yet but little is known as to their behavior, except in very limited areas.
From what has been said with reference to the distribution of sainfoin in Europe and Asia, it will be apparent that it is a hardy plant, which has highest adaptation for climates temperate and mild to moderately cool.
Weeds, therefore, and sometimes grasses are much liable to come into the soil occupied by the sainfoin and to crowd the same.
The land that has been lost to the plough is found to be still further augmented when an inquiry is instituted into the area devoted to clover, sainfoin and grasses under rotation.
The hay made from closer, sainfoin and grasses under rotation generally gives a bigger average yield than that from permanent grass land.
Under hay are included the produce of closer, sainfoin and rotation grasses, and also that of permanent meadow.
Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel.
Corn, rye and sainfoin were already very advanced, all here testifying to highly scientific farming; and elsewhere roots were being sown.
Sainfoin and turnips were growing every year into credit.
There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised.
Clover and sainfoin have none either, which leads us to suppose that the Aryans had no artificial meadows.
Fine sainfoin crops are grown, and black oats likewise do well.
Though the glory of the lilac has passed away, the buttercup still gilds the landscape; barley fields are bright with yellow charlock, and the soft, subdued glow of sainfoin gives colour to the breezy uplands as of acres of pink carnations.
A field of sainfoin in June, with its glorious blossoms of pink, is one of the prettiest sights in all creation.
The mud explodes like shells as the hoofs crush into it, but somehow every one is across and away, and on to the green road and a line of sainfoin much sooner than could be expected.
Meadow vetchling, and the tall meadow crowfoot, with rich yellow blooms and dainty leaves, are set off by the pinks of the clover and the crimson of stray sainfoin clusters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sainfoin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
