88 Mr. Living jion*s Expcritnents en Lucerne. 



up and put in upon one ploughing i2lb. of lucerne feed — this 

 has come up even and thick, and is very free from weeds ; if 

 it flands the winter, which I hardly doubt, it will make a very 

 fine crop the next year. 



EXPERIMENT NO. 7. 



One acre of gravelly clay fown this fpring with vetches left 

 for feed, cut about the laft of Auguft and the beginning of 

 September, fowed with i6 lb. lucerne: It is now (ift 061.) 

 but juft beginning to fliew itfelf, owing to there having feared 

 any rain fallen hnce ; and the refjalt of this experiment will 

 determine whether it may fafely be fown with wheat in good 

 foils, and how far it is capable bearing cold when very young. 



Having with a view to introduce this very ufeful plant, 

 made (as I believe) more experiments, and upon a larger fcale 

 than any other farmer in America, I fliali ftate the conclufions 

 which I have drawn from them, as inflrudions to others that 

 may chufe to cultivate it. 



I ft. It appears to me to be full as hardy as clover ; but like 

 it, to delight in a warm dry foil, tho' it will flourifli in a moifj:* 

 clay — ^fubjeft, however, to the fame cafualties in open winters, 

 when both Vvdll be thrown out by the froft. 



:>nd. When verv young it requires a natural or artificial 

 warmth in the foil, otherwife it languiflie?, and when the weeds 

 and natural graffes come up, it is unable to contv-nd with tb.en\. 



