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Article VII. 



On the Half Hujbandry. 



[By the Rev. H. J. Close, Trimley, Suffolk.] 



THE following account of the culture and pro- 

 duce of a fmall piece of lucern, and alfo the 

 half crop of oats with the potatoes planted in the 

 intervals, fhall have at leafl: the merit of exadtnefs, 

 however unworthy of communication in other 

 refpeds. 



April the 30th, 1782; fowed half a pound of 

 lucern in a feed bed, the drills being drawn with 

 a garden hoe, at fix inches diftance, and covered 

 with a rake. 



September the 24th following, took up the 

 plants, cut the tap-roots off, leaving each root 

 about three inches long, and tranfplantcd them into 

 a piece of good mixed foil land, containing two 

 roods, fixteen rods, leaving room for ploughing 

 the intervals, as it was planted two feet two inches 

 from row to row, and ten inches from plant to 

 plant in each row. 



In the year 1783, it yielded four crops, which 

 were cut and given to the horfes in the yards, the 



weight 



