376 Cultivation of Arabic Land Luc cm Tune and Mctitod y&quot; 



clover : each method has its advocates, and it is probable that they may both be ufe- 

 ful under different circumftances, as in the deeper and more fertile forts cf lands 

 the firft may be the mofl beneficial method, and in thofe of the lighter and lefs deep 

 .kinds the latter ; as in the deep, rich forts of land there may be lefs lofs of time in 

 procuring the green produce for the ufe of horfes or other forts of flock, as well as 

 the greater certainly of the crop fucceeding. But in the lighter and more porous 

 foils, by being fown with corn, the plants may be better protected in their early growth, 

 as well by the made as the moifture that will in that way be preferved. Some indeed 

 fpeak of its -fuperior utility, on the ground of long experience, injts being better 

 preferved from the fly.* Wherever this mode is made ufe of, the grain mould how 

 ever be fown thinner than is ufually the cafe in proportion as the foils are more rich. 

 Oats are preferable to barley for the purpofe, as being lefs liable to lodge, efpecially 

 when fown thin. From five or fix pecks to three bufhels, fown as evenly as poffible, 

 may be the beft proportions, the fmallefl quantity being nee effary on the richeft foils. 



After the grain has been fown and harrowed properly in, the lucern feed mould be 

 immediately fown by a regular even caft over the fine furface, covering it in with a 

 light feed harrow; but itfhould not be too deeply covered in, two inches is fully fuffi- 

 cient. In the drill method the fame fyftem mould be followed, the lucern feed 

 being drilled in, either lengthways or acrofs, at fuitable diftances, immediately after 

 the corn has been put in.f 



It is hardly neceflary to obferve, that the plats of ground fown for the purpofe of 

 raifing plants to be fet out in the garden method of culture, mould always be 

 without grain or other forts of crops, in order that they may admit of having the 

 plants properly thinned out and kept clean, and in a vigorous ftate of growth for 

 being afterwards put out with the moft advantage. 



In regard to the proper diftance of the rows where the drill mode of culture is 

 pradlifed, it mould probably depend upon the ftate and circumftances of the foils : 

 fame advife two feet as the bed diftance in all cafes,} while others think equal di- 

 tances of a foot in rich foils, fuch as are worth from thirty to forty (hillings the 

 acre, and Jiine inches thofe that are of inferior fertility, as from fifteen to twenty 

 Shillings the acre, the beft general diftances. On foils of lefs value, it is probable 

 that this culture can feldom be had recourfe to with much benefit to the farmer. 

 The laft diftance approaches much to the broadcaft method,which is contended by 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXV. f Ibid. 



Armals of Agriculture, vol. XXV, 



