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cultivate whins artificially, and iiave {i^^n otherr, rear 

 them in feveral different ways, among which I found 

 the two following modes of culture to prove the 

 mod fuccefsful : 



In a field of a good dry loamy foil I fowed, along 

 with a crop of barley, the feeds of the whin in the 

 fame way as clover is ufually fown, allowing at the 

 rate of from 15 to 30 pounds of feed to the acre. 

 The feeds, if harrowed in and rolled with the barley, 

 quickly fpring up and advance under the fhelter of 

 the barley during the fummer, and keep alive during 

 the winter. Next feafon, if the field has not a great 

 tendency to run to grafs fo as to choak them, they 

 advance rapidly after Midfummer, fo as to produce 

 a pretty full crop before winter. This you may 

 begin to cut wiib thefcythe immediately after your 

 clover fails, and continue to cut it as it is wanted 

 during the whole of the winter; but it is fuppofed 

 that after the month of February the tafte of this 

 plant alters, as it is in general believed, that after 

 that time horfes and cattle are no longer fond of it. 

 I muft however obferve, that never having had my- 

 lelfa fufRciency of whins to ferve longer than till 

 towards the middle of February, or beginning of 

 March, I cannot aflfert the above fa6l from my own 

 experience. I have frequently fcen horfes beating 

 the whins with their hoofs fo as to bruife the prickles, 



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