<)Q Mr, Livingflon's Experiments on Lucerne. 



if committed to the earth while it is very moifl, the feeds will 

 fwell, and if a dry feafon fiicceeds before they have fluck root, 

 they will wither away. 



3d — Lucerne is frequently liable to turn yellow, and look 

 fickly. I have not been able to difcover the caufe of this evil, 

 tho' I have carefully examined the roots with a microfcope — 

 The remedy is to mow the plant ; it will com^e up free from 

 the diforder. 



4th — ^The time for cutting this for cattle is when ever it 

 will fill the fcythe ; for hay when it begins to bloffom, if left 

 till the bloifom turns, it becomes too hard : I would prefer 

 cutting for cattle the firfl year, as this effectually deflroys all 

 weeds. 



5th — It may be fed down by any kind of cattle with as 

 much fafety as clover. 



6th — I would recommend it to the young farmer not to be 

 difcouraged from purfuing the culture of this plant by the 

 obfervations of fome of the older ones, who will tell him that 

 Mr.. A and Mr. B tryed it, but it would not do. Experiments 

 carelefsly made, or not regularly purfued, the accidental 

 circumftances of foils, or feafons, afford no conclufive 

 arguments, as may be inferred from the regifler which 1 

 have exhibited. ,Out of about fifteen acres which I fowcd 

 laft year, but four fucceeded ; had I not tried the plant in 

 various ways, I fhould probably have determined that it was 



