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It will perfect its feed twice in a fummer; and 

 this feed is faid to be as good as oats for horfes; 

 but it is too valuable to be applied to that ufe. 



It is fometimes fovvn late in the fpring with 

 oats and barley, and fucceeds very well : but we 

 moftly fow it fingly in the beginning of July, 

 when there is a profpecl of rain, on a fmall piece 

 of land ; and in October following, tranfplant it 

 in rows two feet apart, and about a foot diftant 

 in the rows. This is a proper diihmce, and gives 

 opportunity for hoeing the intervals in the fuc- 

 ceeding fpring and fummer. 



After it is fed down with cattle, it fhould be 

 harrowed clean. Some horfes will not eat it freely 

 at nrft, but in two or three days they are generally 

 very fond of it. 



It affords rich pleafant milk, and in great plenty. 



A gentleman farmer near Maid (tone fome years 

 fince fowed four acres, as foon as the crop of oats 

 was got off, which was the latter end of Auguft. 

 He threw in twelve pounds of feed per acre, 

 broadeaft; and no rain falling until the middle 

 of September, the plants did not appear before 

 the latter end of that month. There was how- 

 ever 



