76 Mr. Lhnngjlon s Experiments on Luccnu. 



that it is infinitely better adapted to our climate than to that 

 of Great-Britain. 



2dly. It having been conllantly aiTerted that it takes three 

 years to come to perfection, and that the profpedls are very 

 trifling the year fucceeding that in v^^hich it was fown, by 

 mixing the feeds with thofe of clover, 1 expected, and indeed 

 found, that an immediate profit might be obtained ; for the 

 clover came forward as early, as if it had been fown alone, was 

 fupported by the lucerne, which added fomething to the crop, 

 and both together yielded at the rate of more than three and a 

 half tons an acre, the very firfl year ; the merit of the lafl 

 cutting being wholly due to the lucerne, fmce the drought 

 prevented the clover from rifmg a fecond time to the fcythe ; 

 fo that, had this ikid been fown with clover alone, it would 

 have yielded twenty-four hundred weight per acre, and lefs than 

 it did by the addition of the lucerne feed the veryjirjl year. — 

 The fecond year's produd is flill more conclufive in favor of the 



lucerne. 



3dly. As clover is a beneficial plant, I expected that as the 

 lucerne advanced, the clove-r would die out and leave the ground 

 free from weeds that miojht have robbed the heritage during 

 the minority of the lucerne. Tho' this reafoning was plaufible 

 and influenced my condu£t in my experiments this year, yet I 

 am not fatisfied that it is jufl. I argued from Englifh books of 

 hufbandry, which are not however, calculated in this particular 



