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I will now add a few remarks on Lucerne, a 

 plant which merits every poflible encouragement. 

 Some years fincc I divided a field of two acres 

 into four parts, and fowed it with Lucerne, in the 

 following manner: 



i ft part, in drills three feet afunder. 

 2d part, in drills two feet ditto. 



3d part, in drills one foot ditto. 



4th part, broadcaft. 



The foil was equal throughout the field. The 

 feed was fown on the 24th of April; on the ]6th 

 of Auguft I cut the whole field, and weighed the 

 produce of each part feparately. 



That fown in three-feet drills produced only 

 about half the weight of that fown broadcaft, and 

 the reft in proportion, leffening as the width of 

 the rows increafed. Having been taught to be- 

 lieve, that the three-feet drills would produce moft, 

 I was difappointed in finding that crop to be the 

 leaft of any in the field, and too haftily repro- 

 bated the drill method of fowing it. I was how- 

 ever advifed by a gentleman, who underftood the 

 culture of this grafs better than myfelf, to let the 

 whole field remain three years, to give it a fair 



trial, 



