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From various trial*, I find that taking only odi 

 rj in a year, and feeding the after-growth, is 

 better than to mow it twice. Cut it as foon-as it 

 is in full bloom, if the weather will permit. The 

 hay will+)e the fweeter, and the ftrength of the 

 plants lefs impaired, than if it Hands till the feed 

 is formed. { 



Afthly. Light rich land, being the moft ea fy to 

 cultivate to advantage, and capable of bearing 

 mod kinds of grain, pulfe, arid herbage; I fhall 

 fay little upon it. One thing however is very 

 proper to be obferved, that fuch lands are the beft 

 adapted to the drill-hulbandry, efpecially where 

 machines are ufed, which require'- mallow furrows 

 to be made for the reception of the feed. , This, 

 if not prone to couch-grafs, is the beft of all foils 

 for lucerne; which, if Town in two-feet drills, and 

 kept clean, will yield an aftonifhing quantity of 

 the moft excellent herbage. Bud* J am convinced 

 lacerne will never be cultivated to advantage, 

 where couch grafs and weeds are very, plentiful; 

 nor in the broadeaftl /method, even where the/ 

 are not fo; becaitfehGrfe-hocing is effentiai to the 

 vigorous growth of this plant. 



$tbly. Coarfe rough land: — Plough deep in 



autumn; when it has lain two weeks, crofs-plough 



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