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any fubftitute that is by any means its equal. In- 

 deed one acre of good fainfoin is of more value than 

 two acrcs of middling meadow or pafture. And as 

 it will thrive fo well on a very poor foil, the arable 

 farmer, who either keeps no cows for want of herb- 

 age, or keeping them is pinched for food for them, 

 is perfe6lly ignorant of the advantages attending the 

 culture of this plant, or miferably indolent and in- 

 cxcufable in not better attending to his interefl. 



Whatever crop precedes the planting fainfoin, 

 the ground Ihould be ploughed in the winter, and 

 laid up in fharp deep ridges by one bout of the 

 plough, to continue till the beginning of ApriU 

 Then it fliould be dragged and harrowed level: 

 and if the land be very poor, it Ihould have fomc 

 light drefling of aflies, foot, or a compoft of lime, 

 earth, and rotten dung, well incorporated together. 

 A fmall quantity of either of thefe would greatly 

 encourage the plants in their infant ftate. The 

 beginning or middle of April, as the feafon may 

 prove, the feed fhould be fown, and there would be 

 little danger of its fucceeding to one's wifh. 



Perhaps there cannot be a better nor a furer 

 means of cultivating this very ufeful plant to the 

 grcatcil advantage, than by lowing ii after potatoes. 



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