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fond of it alone ; but it pafTcs very well in com- 

 mon with other grafTcs. 



I'pbly. For horfes, cows, and all black cattle, 

 to be cut and carried to them to eat, he thinks 

 Lucerne preferable to any other grafs ; and that 

 an acre of it in good ground, where it thrives 

 well, will, from early in May to Michaelmas, 

 maintain twice the number of cattle that an acre 

 ood meadow will. But the lucerne field is, 

 in elUct, a ftubble from Oclober to May. 



Next to lucerne, for the above purpofe, comes 

 Sainfoin or Frcnch-grafs, but its produce in the 

 fummer is buc little more than half as much as 

 that of the lucerne; yet you may winter-feed the 

 fainfoin with flicep 'till Chriftmas, and with other 

 cattle 'till Candlemas; but if you flock it later in 

 thefpring, you deftroy your crop, the cattle eating 

 the crown of the root and killing the plant. 



But for the cultivation of thefe, or any other 

 grafTes, by way of railing fodder for cattle; (or for 

 any other purpofes) Mr. A. has not an idea it 

 would anfwer to deftroy good meadow, or very 

 good pafhirc, which, from Candlemas to May, 

 (the fcarceft time of the year) is the mofr. valuable 



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