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ON THE RAISING 



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 RED CLOVER SEED. 



By EZRA L'HOMMEDLEU, Esc^piRE. 



"13 ED Clover Seed of late years has become an article of 

 exportation, by which the price has encreafed, and the 

 produtlion become very prohtable to the farmer. More red 

 clover feed is carried to market from Suffolk county than from 

 the whole ftate befides. It is not uncommon for a farmer in 

 that county to fell thirty bulhels of this feed in a year, which in 

 many inftances brings him. more clear profit than all the re 11 of 

 the produce of his faini- As tlie railing of this feed is but very 

 little attended to in other parts of the lt«ite, I Ihall defcribe the 

 manner of railing it in that county. It grows bell on a light 

 fandy foil, on a light loamy Ibil, or on a foil of light loam mixed 

 with land ; the feed is colletied both from the hrft crop and 

 frv),n the fecond crop ; but the largelt quantity is procured from, 

 the firlt crop, ^y fowiiig clover ieed, three or four pounds to 

 the acre, on I'ght loamy loils (where you lov/ wiieat or rj'ej 

 ■which yield eight or ten hulheis tu the acre, the red clover will 

 not be prohtable to mow, but (land ng thin on the ground, the 

 heads v/il! be well filled witn lecd ; theie heids are kept up the 

 next year till the feed is collected; wlicn you perceive about 

 one half of the tield to nave chaiiged us colour by the drying. 



