clover-hay

And though our ricks were all now of mere straw (except indeed two of prime clover-hay), and although on the top they were so wet that no firebrands might hurt them; I was both unwilling to have them burned, and fearful that they might kindle, if well roused up with fire upon the windward side.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

It seems also to exert a peculiarly beneficial effect upon clover; and hence it ought to be employed only on clover-hay, as where ryegrass or other grasses form the whole of the crop we have better manures.

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

Alfalfa, clover-hay, and pea and oat hay are excellent, provided they are of fine growth and cut before they are too advanced in growth.

Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.

Apollo were still coloring the wall under which a few cows were crunching their clover-hay.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Thus, in so small a matter as the sowing of clover-seed, he tells how the thumb and finger should be held, for its proper distribution; in stacking, he directs how to bind the thatch; he tells how mown grass should be raked, and how many hours spread; [I] and his directions for the making of clover-hay could not be improved upon this very summer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Where I sit in the shade—a warm day, the sun shining from cloudless skies, the forenoon well advanc’d—I look over a ten-acre field of luxuriant clover-hay, (the second crop) —the livid-ripe red blossoms and dabs of August brown thickly spotting the prevailing dark-green.

Straw-Color’d and Other Psyches. Specimen Days 1892

According to Dr. Anderson, the composition of clover-hay of the second cutting is as follows: --

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

And nothing was so sweet to me, when I was a boy, as the newly cut clover-hay where I sat with two or three companions, watching the barn swallows chattering their incomprehensible gabble and gossip from the doors of their mud houses in the rafters.

Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869

And though our ricks were all now of mere straw (except indeed two of prime clover-hay), and although on the top they were so wet that no firebrands might hurt them; I was both unwilling to have them burned, and fearful that they might kindle, if well roused up with fire upon the windward side.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

'It is nothing done by you, Master Ridd,' she answered, very proudly, as if nought I did could matter; 'it is only something that comes upon me with the scent of the pure true clover-hay.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862