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Article LXL 



On the Advantages of cultivating Sainfoin as a 

 Food for Cows. 



[By an Eflex Farmer, an Honorary Member.] 

 Gentlemen, 



I AM induced to fend you the i following re- 

 marks on fainfoin, from having obferved when 

 at Bath, and in patting through the counties of 

 Somerfet and Dorfet laft fummer, that there is 

 but little of this valuable grafs growing there, 

 although many of the lands feem well adapted to 

 its nature. 



Sainfoin is much cultivated in the North-Eaft 

 part of this county, particularly about Saffron- 

 Walden, where the foil is of a chalky kind. The 

 remarks that follow may be depended on, as they 

 are made from my own experience and obferva- 

 tion for many years ; which have fully convinced 

 me, that of all the foreign graifes, there is none 

 comparable to this. 



Sainfoin will always fucceed well where the 

 roots run deep; the worft foil of all for it is where 



there 



