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there is a bed of cold wet clay, which the tender 

 fibres cannot penetrate. This plant will make 

 a greater increafe of produce, by at load thirty 

 times, than common grafs or turf on poor land. 

 Where it meets with chalk or Hone, it will ex* 

 tend its roots through the cracks and chinks, to 

 a very great depth, in fearch of nourifhment. 

 The /drynefs is of more confequence than the 

 richnefs of land for fainfoin; although land that 

 is both dry and rich will always produce the 

 krgeft crops. 



It is very commonly fown broadcaft, but it is 

 found to anfwer bed in drills, efpecially if the 

 land be made fine by repeated ploughing, roll- 

 ing, and harrow ing. Much depends on the depth 

 which this feed is fown. If it be buried more 

 than an inch deep, it will feldom grow; and if 

 Jeft uncovered, it will puili out its roots above 

 ground, and thefe will be killed by the air. 

 March and the beginning of April are the belt 

 feafons for fowing it, as the feverity of winter, and 

 the drought of fummcr, arc equally unfavour- 

 able to the young plants. A bufhel of feed fown 

 broadcaft, or half that quantity in drills, if good, 

 i^ fulBcicnt for an acre. The drills mould be 

 rtJ|M?ty inches apart, to admit of horfc-hoeing 

 between them. Much however depends on the 



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