Cultivation of Arable Laml.Lucern After-management of. 383 



In Mr. Young s trials, cattle were found to increafe fafi in flefli by it, paying at 

 the rate of four [hillings and lixpence a head per week, which is confidered 

 as a great proof of the value of the plant : in this view its fuperiority to 

 tares he thinks prodigious.* It has alfo been confidered of great value in 

 this view in Ireland, by Mr. Herbert, after much experience. The great power 

 which it poficfles in fattening is, indeed, rendered fufficiently evident, by the 

 fudden effects which it produces in foiling horfes. In moll inftances they get 

 into high condition in a fhorr time, becoming &quot; fat without oats or hay&quot; in fome 

 cafes. -j- 



Sheep have likewifebeen fattened on this green food with great fuccefs in Mr. 

 Baldwin s trials. + 



T 



In foiling hogs in the fold-yards it has alfo been attended with confiderable fuccefs. 

 And it has been fuggefted,that as thefe animals do not bite fo clofely as fheep, they 

 may be admitted upon the crops with greater fafety. A plot of it contiguous to 

 the yards might in this view be highly beneficial. 



It is fufficiently clear,from thefe ftatements, that this is a highly beneficial method 

 ofdifpofing of lucern crops. Its vafl fuperiority over that of making them into 

 hay, as well as the expenfe, product, and neat profit in cultivating them on differ 

 ent foils, may be feen atone view in the following table.H 



The utility and application of the hay produced from this grafs has been already 

 mentioned. 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XIV. t Ibid. vol. XXV. 



Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXV. 



t Ibid. 



