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like corn from the furface foil, and therefore is not 
injured by its impoverifhed ftate, whilft its greateft 
enemy, the black bent, is effectually kept under by 
the couch grafs. Inthis praétice it is likewife fown 
with barley, and very thin, not more than a bufhel 
per acre, it having been noticed by the fame atten- 
tive obfervers, that, when fown thin, the roots are 
larger and more vigorous, and in two or three years 
get full poffeffion of the land, producing greater 
crops, and lafting longer than the thicker planted. 
There are other practitioners who object to thin 
fowing, obferving that the hay being chiefly wanted 
for fheep, although it may produce as much or 
more in quantity, the ftems are much larger and 
not fo palatable to that animal, occafioning great 
wafte in the confumption. It muft likewife be ob- 
ferved, that the method of fowing it on foul ex- 
haufted land, having been tried in the neighbour- 
hood of Gufting, on a lefs genial foil, has, in two 
inftances that have come to my knowledge, failed ; 
it miglit therefore be advifable, when the culture 
is new, to make fmall experiments firft. In the 
neighbourhood of Stowe, I am informed, a fourth 
part of the land is appropriated to this grafs; but 
as it requires a great many years to intervene before 
land that has once borne it, can be cropped with 
fuccefs, that probably may be found too large a 
proportion. The duration of fainfoin depends a 
great deal on the management; mowing it before 
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