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erroneous opinion, that lucerne will thrive only on 

 rich land. It may be raifcd to great advantage on 

 land of a very indifferent quality, by the fame means 

 as above recommended for fainfoin, and the fame 

 care to keep it free from grafs and weeds. I have 

 cut five good crops off fuch land in one fummer, 

 after having been planted five years, without a grain 

 of manure of any kind, except a fmall fprinkling of 

 turf a(hes the fecond year after fowing the feed. A 

 few acres of either, or both thefe graffes, with a few 

 more of potatoes, cabbage, or turnips, would enable 

 the occupier of an arable farm to keep from eight 

 to twelve, or even twenty milch-cows, according to 

 the fize of his farm, though he fliould not have an 

 acre of meadow or paflure belonging to the fame. 



Of articles which are truly ufeful and entirely 

 new, we know of few that have been Introduced 

 within the time mentioned. The turnip-rooted 

 cabbage is a truly valuable root, which was acci^ 

 dentally difcovered about twenty years ago, and has 

 been cultivated with great fuccefs by feveral gen- 

 tlemen, and ilrongly recommended by them to the 

 attention of the farmer. Both -its roots and greens 

 are exceeding good food for cattle, but what con- 

 ftitutes its principal excellence is its extreme hardi- 

 nefs, for it refills the violence of the mod rigorous 



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