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ncfs, having been explained in the preceding feiElion, it may be ncceflary to defcribe 

 the modes of culture that are bed fuited to the railing crops of the artificial grafs 

 kind, and the means of confuming them with the greateft chance of profit and 

 advantage to the farmer. 



Artificial Graffes The general introduction and interposition of crops of artificial 

 or fown grafles between thofe of the corn kind is a practice of the greateft utility 

 and importance, as the lands are thereby not only prevented from being fo much 

 exhaufted as would otherwife be the cafe, and at the fame time rendered fit for 

 the growth of particular kinds of grain without the neceftity of fallowing, but a 

 much larger proportion of green and other food than could otherwife be obtained 

 is provided for the fupport of live ftock. It has of courfe chiefly laid the founda 

 tion of the late improvements in arable cultivation as well as live flock. 



As moft of the plants employed in this way are ofconliderable fizeand flrength, 

 or luxuriance of growth, they muft of courfe, as well as the natural grafles, re 

 quire the ground on which they are cultivated to poffefs a good ftate of fertility, 

 and a considerable finenefs of mould, as where this is not the cafe they feldom 

 fucceed in a perfect manner, or afford that abundance of produce which would 

 otherwife be the cafe. Like the natural grafles, they fhould alfo be adapted to 

 the peculiarity of the foil on which they are to be grown, as they are all found to 

 anfwer better on fome kinds of land than others. Some of them fucceeding moft 

 perfectly on the heavier forts of foil, as thofe of the more dry, loamy, clayey, and 

 ftronger gravelly defcriptions j others on the more ftrong, poor and thin kinds of 

 calcareous lands, as thofe of the chalky and limeftone forts, and others on the deep 

 fertile grounds which abound in vegetable matter. 



Red Clover.* This is a plant which is well known, and that rifes to confidera* 

 ble height, with a root that ftrikes deep into the foil, and rather ftrong ftem, afford 

 ing a large produce of leaf and bloflbm, on which account the land is kept in a 

 more perfect ftate of clofenefs and fhade, while the crop remains upon if, than is 

 the cafe with moft other plants of the artificial grafs kind. On this prir-ci^le it 

 has of courfe much more influence in ameliorating and improving the foils, and 

 affords a better preparation for wheat crops, f 



Red Clover is capable of being cultivated with fuccefs and advantage on almoft 

 all the more heavy and dry defcriptions of land which are in a tolerable ftate of 

 fertility, and it i faid tp fucceed on the deeper kinds of gravelly, chalky, and fandy 



* Trifolium pratcnse. f Marfhall s Rural Economy of the Southern Counties, vol. J, 



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