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EXPERIMENTS 



On lucerne. 



£r TUB Hon. RO B E RT R. L I V I N G S T h\ 



(Continued— fro7n lajl year.) 



THE delay which has attended the printing of our memoirs, 

 enables me to lay before the Society, a continuation of the 

 experiments upon lucerne, which I had laft year the honor io 

 fubmit to their confideration. 



No. I. CONTINUED. 



ill April — Manured with ten loads of black earth from a 

 fwamp — or at rate of forty loads to the acre. 



It was very luxuriant and cut twice before the twentieth of 



June for plough-horfes kept in the flable— being when they 



began to cut each time, about fixteen inches high, the average 



heighth, taking the firft and lafl cutting, each time about 20 



inches. On the 24th July, cut and made into hay, produced 



looowt. or two tons to the acre. On the laft of Auguft, cut 



a fourth time — produce 600 wt. or i ton 400 wt. to the acre. 



The fifth crop is not cut, but is now the ift October, 20 inches 



high, and very promifmg in its appearance ; if we have no 



fevere froft before the middle of this month, it will produce 



about 600 v/t. of hav. 



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