70 M7'. Living/Ion's Experiments on Lucerne. 



EXPERIMENT, NO. 3, I793. * 



LAND, a light fandy loam, three years under clover, and 

 twice in that time manured with gypfum, feven bulhels to the 

 acre ; broke up 20th April, fowed with oats on one ploughing, 

 fod hurrowed fine ; over three acres of this fowed on the ifl 

 of May, eight pounds of clover, and eight pounds of lucerne 

 feed to the acre mixed, at the rate of 16 lb. feed. The oats 

 came forward with fuch luxuriance (yielding fixty-four bufhels 

 on the average to the acre), and fuch abundance of flraw, that 

 the greater part was lodged, and the grafs feeds fo effedually 

 deftroyed, that I have fmce ploughed up the ftubble 5 this was 

 alfo dreifed with gypfum, five bufhels to the acre. 



EXPENCE. 



48 lb. clover and lucerne feed< . Z. 2 16 o 

 Sowing, 020 



15 bufhels of gypfum, at 45. . . 2160 

 Sowing do. and harrowing, ...060 



Entire lofs, except the gypfum may 1 r ^ 

 be of ufe in the next crop, J 



EXPERIMENT, NO. 4, I793. 



SOIL and management as above j being part of the fame 

 field. Ploughed twice for barley ; once laft autumn ; once 

 early in April ; fown with barley about 20th. Sowed the 

 next day two acres of this ground with clover and lucerne, 

 mixed eight pounds of each to the acre, except about half 



