we STATISTICAL SURVEY 



' The little farmers have a peculiar mode of fowing 

 clover in their gardens, which deferves to be generally 

 known, and to be praftifed by thofe, who farm upon 

 an extenfive fcale, efpecially when by any accident 

 clover of the former year has failed ; the feed is fown 

 in fpring, as foon as the feafon will admit, with a fmall 

 quantity of oats or barley (two or three bufhels to the 

 acre), the green blade of which may be cut as foon as 

 its length will afford ; afterwards it will fprout and 

 give another crop ; by this time the clover will have 

 gained fo great a degree of ftrengtfe, that in a favour- 

 able feafon it will likewife be fufficiently long to mow ; 

 as I have often feen it. The advantages attending this 

 management are, ift. the gaming a quantity of green 

 food the year it is fown ; and adly, that the clover, by 

 the cutting of the grain at two periods, is freed from 

 the danger of being fmothered, and is kept completely 

 free from weeds. It is ufual with thofe, who follow 

 this mode, to manure with afh.es after the firft or fe- 

 cond cutting ; the effecl: is great. Afties are certainly 

 the beft manure for clover, as they fpread when dry 

 more even than any other manure 5 dung, when laid 

 on clover, cannot be made fo fine as to prevent fome 

 lumps from being unbroke, and a very fmall piece is 

 fufficient to rot the plant it covers. Clover, fown in 

 September, fucceeds remarkably well, and if on flubble, 

 ploughed for the purpofe, fome of the grain that fheds 

 in reaping fhould grow up with it, it will not only 



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