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the firft blown ripe, and the laft blown beginning 1 

 to open. For want of this carefome people have 

 loft mod of their feed by letting it ftand too ripe. 

 Seeded fainfoin fliould always be cut in a morn- 

 ing or evening, when the dews render the ftalks 

 tender. If cut when the fun fhines hot, much of 

 the feed will fall out and be loft. 



An acre of very ordinary land, when improved 

 by this grafs, will maintain four cows very well 

 from the firft of April to the end of November; 

 and afford befides a fuflicient (lore of hay to make 

 the greater part of their food the four months 

 following. 



The quantity of milk produced by cows fed 

 by fainfoin, is nearly double to that of any other 

 food. The milk is alio much richer; and will 

 yield a larger ciuantity of cream. The butter will 

 alfo be better coloured and flavoured than any 

 other. I have known many cows give twelve 

 pints of milk at a meal, and milked twice a day, 

 while fed on fainfoin. 



If the foil be tolerably good, a field of fainfoin 

 will laft from fifteen to twenty years in prime; 

 V>ut at the end of feven or eight years it will be 

 neceffary to Lay on a moderate coat of well-rotted 



dung; 



