6'6 Mr. Livingjlon's Exptriments on Lucerne. 



to be cut, fo that this crop confided wholly of lucerne : I 

 now experienced the want of feed, for though the lucerne was 

 about ly inches high, it occupied too little fpace to produce 

 a great crop. The lucerne and clover rofe after this cutting, 

 and might have yielded a tolerable crop, but I preferred 

 leaving the rowan to proted the roots againfl the winter winds. 

 — 1793, I ft April. Dreffed this fpot with one bufhel of 

 gypfum. — 28th April. The fpring proving uncommonly early, 

 the ground being naturally warm, having a fouth afpeQ:, and 

 the plants having been protected by a good winter coat. The 

 lucerne exhibited a moft beautiful appearance ; it was 1 3 

 inches high, the clover growing w^ith it not more than two. 

 The common paftures were barely green. As my hay was 

 gone, and none to be purchafed, (the year preceding having 

 yielded but bad hay-crops) I was compelled to employ my 

 lucerne to feeding four plough horfes, three times a day in 

 the ftable as they came fro'm their work ; and four fows that 

 had pigs, which were regularly fed with it three times a day ; 

 the horfes were turned out at night to glean what they could 

 in the paftures ; it lafted them till the twenty-third of May, 

 and what was laft cut, was near three feet high. — loth June. 

 Began again to cut for two very large coach-horfes, kept 

 altogether in the ftable; it lafted them to the twenty-eighth. In 

 this cutting; the clover amounted to near one half of the 

 crop, which was I think more produdive on that account 



