Mr. Livingjlon^s Experiments on Lucerne. 69 



10th March, 1793. 



EXPERIMENT, NO. 2. 



LAND a light loam, indifferently prepared for wheat by 



two ploughings only, being an old pafture in little heart, 



ploughed every fifth year for fifty years pafl, and never manured; 



fown lafh autumn with wheat ; fowed over eight acres of the 



wheat, lucerne and clover, in various proportions, to the 



amount of forty pounds of clover, and feventy-fix of lucerne 



feed ; manured at the fame time with fifty-feven bulhels of 



gypfum in various proportions, from five to ten bufhels per 



acre. The largefl quantity produced the beft wheat, and the 



whole being better than could have been expeded from the 



foil ; the farmers who infpeded the crop were of opinion, that 



the gypfum had been of ufe to the wheat. The grafs feeds 



vegetated very well, and came up thickly, but not vigoroufly. 



A drought, very unufual at that feafon, came on as early as 



the lafl of April, and continued till the middle of June : the 



clover and lucerne promifed fo httle when the wheat came off, 



that I fed the flubble (this experiment-ground being part of 



a large field) ; I fhall order it to be enclofed, to fee whether 



the next year will repay a part of my expences, which ftand 



as follows : 



ii6 1b. lucerne and clover feed, .694 



Sowing, 30 



57 bufhels of gypfum, at 4J. . . n o 

 Carting and fowing do. . , . o 10 



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