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and roll the landf This anfwer? two good purr 

 pofes, namely, prefling and covering the feed, gn4 

 fixing the roots of the barley more firmly, which, 

 in a light foil efpecially, is of great fervice. 



After the corn is reaped, I omit turning in any 

 cattle till the crop of clover gets up pretty high 

 and thick, which it will generally be by the end of 

 Odlober. I then turn in Iheep and other fmall 

 cattle for abouj: a month, or, if the crop be large, 

 fix weeks. After this time, I let it remain unfed 

 till April. My cattle are then turned in, which eat 

 it off pretty bare by May, at which time I clear it 

 for a crop of hay. If the feafon is not remarkably 

 dry, it will be ready for the firfl cutting by the 

 middle of June, and generally yields me two tons 

 per acre. 



Experience has taught me, that the nearer the 

 ground clover is cut the better, if it be cut early j 

 but if it has flood too long, the bottoms of the 

 flalks will be dry and naked.* In that cafe, it 

 ought not to be cut fo low, as the hay would be 

 more flicky and coarfe. If rain follows the firft 



♦ To this the writer might have added, that the ftalk being drained 

 of its raoifture, the root is alfo much eochaufted, and will reqvir* loQgei^ 

 tiHfie before it fends forth new Ihpot^ fpr a fc9pp;d ?roj. 



cutting. 



