84 M'>'' Livlngjlons Experiments- on Lucerne, 



Expence per acre cutting and making hay Sy per acre . Z. i 4 c 



3 tons 1 1 cwt. of hay, at 2/5 

 Dedu6t expences 



Clear profit 



Part of this was injured by the poultry and pigs which were 

 conflantly upon it — thofe parts on which clover was mixed 

 with the lucerne, very much inferior to that on which the 

 lucerne grew alone. 



Lucerne and Clover on Clay. 



This cut only twice — the fecond time the 20th of Augufl : 

 The product at both cuttings three tons to the acre — the iirll 

 crop was much injured by the cattle breaking in, and by its 

 being lodged. The lucerne among the clover is now fit to cut 

 a third time, but having been fown thin, it will not make a 

 trop alone, and the clover is too fhort to be worth cutting ; 

 but the after grafs is fo fine, as to be adequate to all the 

 expences attending the two firfl crops, fo that the three tons 

 of hay or Z. 7 10 may be confidered as the neat profit upon 

 this acre. 



Lucerne /own lyziA TuRMiPS, Aug. 1793. 



I exprefled my fears tha-t this lucerne would hardly live thro' 

 this winter — however I was agreeably difappointed j early in 

 th« fpring, the' the plants were fmall, and as I thought much 



