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" This barley was but tolerable, yielding about 20 bushels to 

 the acre. The lucern is far from answering my expectation; it 

 is thin and in patches; the rains which prevail this summer have 

 filled the ground with clover, so that I expect next year to cut 

 more clover than lucern from this ground." 



Experiment No. 2. 



" The adjoining acre was sown with lucern alone without bar- 

 ley. It looks at present exactly as that sown with barley, neither 

 promising much as a lucern crop. I should observe that these 

 plants came up very thick and well, but soon changed their color 

 in spots to yellow, and died away, except where the ground was 

 rich." 



Experiment No. 3. 



" Plowed up three-fourths of an acre that had been in potatoes 

 last year, soil as above; dung was put in the rows when the po- 

 tatoes were planted at the rate of 40 loads to an acre. 



"May 1st, sowed with barley and 12 pounds of lucern seed; 

 the barley good, but much injured by the poultry, being near 

 my house. The lucern, a very fine and promising crop, cut 

 about the last of September, about half a ton to the acre. This 

 experiment is important, since it proves that if lucern is sown 

 in the spring it should lie on the ground in good health and 

 warmed with dung. I have no doubt of cutting four or five tons 

 of hay next year from this spot." 



Experiment No. 4 — One Acre, 1794. 



" Soil as above, but poorer, sown this spring with vetches, they 

 were cut 20th of July for hay, plowed immediately after, and 

 put in 18 pounds of lucern seed; it came up very thick, and 

 maintains a healthy color, though the ground is very full of 

 weeds; this gives me no uneasiness, as they are annuals, and the 

 season too far advanced to permit them to ripen their seeds; they 

 will only serve to protect the lucern against the cold of the 

 ensuing winter." 



Experiment No. 5. 



" Half an acre of my last year lucern standing very thin. I 

 plowed it up this year, and 1st of July sowed it with eight pounds 

 of lucern seed and a small quantity of turnip seed, having pre- 



