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We stopped planting clover and alfalfa, which are natural fertilizers that fix nitrogen in the soil, and instead we started using synthetic fertilizers.
Basically Daniel 'Dan' O'Grady (Shay Duffin) has returned to America from Ireland after stealing 100 pieces of gold from the magical and nasty Leprechaun (Warwick Davis), but he manages to trap him in a crate covered with a four-leafed clover before having a stroke.
Tory goes to O'Grady at the hospital to find out how they can kill the Leprechaun, and when she does find him he says they need a four-leafed clover.
So after some chases and trappings, they get time to search for this clover in a big patch, and luckily find it, just when Leprechaun has got his gold and realised one coin is missing.
In the end, Alex manages to catapult the clover into Leprechaun's mouth, and he falls into the well gagging green blood and being blown up by petrol and a match.
So they're Goblins not Trolls, then why throw in a Leprachaun mythos by having them all be burned with clover scars and evil green St.Patty's day food?
Once in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and farther off lighted like white butterflies on a field of red clover all in bloom.
And there you are, dwelling with me snug as a parson, living in clover, taking your ease!"
'And the clover?''I have sent Vasily, he and Mishka are sowing.
That they were only sowing sixteen instead of fifty acres with clover was still more annoying.
Levin ordered them to do this, told off two of the men to help sow the clover, and got over his vexation with the foreman.
It's always pleasanter for us when the master's eye is on us...''Then it's down in the Birch Valley that they are sowing the clover?
Then he would have three hundred desyatinas of wheat, one hundred of potatoes, and one hundred and fifty of clover, and not a single desyatina exhausted.
Dreaming such dreams, carefully guiding his horse so as not to trample down his young growth, he rode up to the labourers who were sowing the clover.
We sowed a quarter of it and sold the rest.''Well, mind and rub the lumps,' said Levin, going up to his horse, 'and keep an eye on Mishka, and if the clover comes up well you shall have fifty kopeks for each desyatina.'
We are very grateful to you as it is.'Levin mounted his horse and rode to the field where clover had been sown the year before, and to another which was deeply ploughed and ready for sowing the spring wheat.
The clover was coming on splendidly.
He showed his guest into the spare bedroom, where Oblonsky's things, his bag, a gun in a case, and a satchel with cigars, were also brought, and leaving him to wash and change Levin went to the office to give orders about the ploughing and the clover.
He gave orders to mow the clover for hay, choosing the inferior fields overgrown with grass and hemlock and not fit for seed; and they cut down all the best seed clover, defended themselves by saying that the foreman ordered them to do it, and comforted him with the assurance that he would get splendid hay; while he knew that they had done it simply because that clover was easiest to mow.
The horses were allowed to stray into the wheat-field because not one of the peasants wanted to be watchman, and in spite of its having been forbidden the labourers took turns to watch the horses at night; so Vanka; who had been at work all day, fell asleep, and confessed his guilt, saying, 'I am in your hands, sir!'Three of the best calves had been overfed by being turned into the meadow where the clover had been cut, without any water to drink; and the peasants would on no account admit that the clover had injured them.
Alternating with the dark hue of clover and the rawgreen of beet-root, the yellow corn lighted up the landscape with gleamsof pale gold; the fields looked as if they had drunk in the sunshinewhich poured down on them.