M}\ Ltvingflon'i Experiments on Lucerne -c; 



ploughed in the fprfng, or pulverized fully, is improper. The 

 failure, however, of this experiment, may in fome fort, be 

 charged to the early fowing, fmce the rapid growth, of that 

 fown with the buck-wheat, during the hotteft feafon of the 

 year, would intimate, that the ground fhould be warm and 

 mellow, to fuit the conftitution of this plant while in its infant 

 ftate. The fuccefs that attended the fowing with barley proves, 

 that notwithflanding the unfavourable feafon, if the earth is 

 properly pulverized, a good produd: may be expefted. 



An important queflion ftill remains to be decided, relative to 

 the propriety of fowing lucerne alone or mixed with red clover 

 feed. I was prejudiced in favor of the latter mode from the 

 following confiderations : 



I ft. I wiflied to know whether it was equally hardy with 

 clover ? Whether under fimilar circumftances it was able to 

 contend with it in our climate ? Experience has convinced me 

 that it will, and that in dry feafons it will fiourifli — while clover 

 is too faint and languid to raife its drooping head ; and what is 

 more extraordinary, that this child of the fummer, better braves 

 the biting frofts of the fpring and the keen autumnal blafts, than 

 clover, or any cultivated grafs of this cHmate.— Thefe are 

 important circumftances, when I am labouring to introduce 

 It into common hufbandry, in the face of prejudices arifmg 

 from the Englifh experiments, which are far from encouraging 

 to farmers of moderate capitals j I hope, however, to fhew. 



