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From experience, I have found that fwine pre- 

 fer lucerne to clover. Laft year I had a fmall fpot 

 of lucerne adjoining to a field of clover, to both 

 which they had free accefs. When drove into 

 the clover, they would immediately return to the 

 lucerne, which manifeftly proves it to be a fweeter 

 feed for fwine. The fuperior advantages of lu- 

 cerne to clover, are great and many. Lucerne is 

 not only earlier, and much more luxuriant in its 

 growth, but will bear cutting four times in, a fea- 

 fon, and likewife flourifli from fourteen to fixteen 

 years longer than clover. The manure dropt by 

 the pigs tends greatly to enrich the land it grows 

 on: hence I am fully convinced of its fuperior ad- 

 vantages to every other culture. 



I have experienced, that neither lucerne nor 

 clover are of themfelves a fufficicnt fupport for 

 fwine. A fmall quantity of corn, peafe, or beans, 

 (particularly in cold mornings) is effentially ne- 

 cefTary to be given them, before they areturned out. 

 Such food will warm and ftrcngthen their ftomachs, 

 and prevent the bad confequences of a diforder 

 generally called ihe blood-* which from the follow- 

 ing circumftances that occurred to me lall April, I 

 con(ider as an erroneous appellation. 



* Mr. Winter, in a volume of his Eflays, publiftied fmce the 

 firfl Edition of this Volume, defcribes this cliforder as proceeding 

 from the real want of a fufficient quantity of blood, arifmgfrom the 

 want of folid nouiiftiing food. 



. My 



