380 Cultivation of Arable Land. Lucern After-management of. 



As this is one of the moft forward of the artificial graffes, it frequently attains 

 a fufficient growth for the fcythe towards the end of May or beginning of the fol 

 lowing month, and in foils that are favourable for its culture will be in a ftate 

 of readinefs for a fecond cutting in the courfe of a month or fix weeks longer ; 

 being capable of undergoing the fame operation at nearly fimilar diftances of time 

 during the whole of the fummer feafon. In this lafl fort of foil, with proper 

 management in the drill method, it has been found to rife to the height of a foot and 

 a half in about thirty or forty days, affording five full cuttings in the fummer.* 

 But in the broadcaft crops, in the opinion of fome, there are feldom fo many cut- 

 tings afforded in this feafon, three or four being more common, as the growth is 

 fuppofed to be lefs rapid than by either of the other modes. This is, however, 

 contradicted by the experience of other cultivators who have paid much attention 

 to the fubjecT:, as will be feen below. In order to have new fucceflions of this grafs 

 conftantly becoming ready to be cut, it has been recommended, for thepurpofe of 

 foiling, to have the broadcaft plantations formed into fo many divifions as* that one of 

 them may be cut daily; as about fixty, and thofe of the drilled and tranfplanted 



Brought forward 



Eight pounds of feed 

 Drilling - 



liorfe-hoeing in autumn 

 Hand-hoeing ditto 



Annual Expenses. 

 To rent, tythes and rates 

 Four horfe-hoeings 

 Three hand-hoeings 

 Five mowings 

 Raking together 

 Loading and carting home 

 Manuring to amount per annum 



Firft year . 1 18 

 Pro/it by soiling Horses. 



By keeping five horfes from&quot;! 



beginning of May to mid- I . s. d* 

 die of Odober, at 2s. 6d. [14 7 6 

 per horfe per week J, 



490 



Clear profit 9 18 6 



. 14 7 6 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXV, 



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