lucern

Leguminous plants such as clover, vetch and lucern are green fodder which. when harvested in due season, provide cattle with the vitamins and proteins necessary for them to achieve full production capacity.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 - Presentation Speech 1964

Cultivating lucern and potatoes is, without doubt, a dignified and useful employment, but it is not likely to content a man who has played a great part, and is conscious that he is still able to do so.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Given good capital and intelligent farming, as in the irrigated districts, and two, and even three, crops a year can be raised in unceasing succession; lucern gives from ten to twelve cuttings in one year, fifteen days being sufficient for the growth of a new crop.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

It is possible for a _Cuscuta_ plant to work destruction over a space two meters in diameter in a lucern or clover field; so, should a hundred seeds germinate in an acre, it may be easily seen how disastrous the effects of the scourge would prove.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

_Alfalfa_, or lucern, though grown more for a forage crop than for green manuring, should be mentioned here, for wherever grown and for whatever purpose, its effects on the soil are beneficial (Fig. 82).

The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

After reaching Monticello, Mr. Jefferson announced, that he had completely withdrawn from affairs, and that he did not even read the journals, preferring to contemplate "the tranquil growth of lucern and potatoes."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

The roots of alfalfa or lucern have been traced to depths of from thirteen to sixteen feet or more.

The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

I delight to make him scramble to the tops of eminences and to the foot of waterfalls, and am obliged in turn to admire his turnips, his lucern, and his timothy-grass.

Chapter XVII 1917

When we had put up a covey out of range and marked where they went down in a potato patch or field, perhaps of lucern or clover, a small boy would fly a kite made in the form of a hawk over the field.

Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

To ripen the beet-root, to water the potato, to increase the yield of lucern, of clover, or of hay; to be a fellow-workman with the ploughman, the vinedresser, and the gardener, -- this does not deprive the heavens of one star.

The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Various 1888