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IMPROVING POOR LANDS, 



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SOWING RED CLOVER-SEED: 



BT EZRA L* HOMMEDIEU, es^ 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE CORPORATIOK. 



SOME years ago,I faw a piece of verypoor loomy land, grown 

 over with raofs, and yielding no pafture except five-fingers 

 and a few daifies ; it was ploughed up early in the fpring and 

 fowed with nothing but red clover-feed, four quarts to the 

 acre. The next year it produced a confiderable quantity ot 

 hay, which was the only crop, tho' the land was much better 

 afterwards. I make no doubt but this mode of culture mio-ht 



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be improved to great advantage. It is the only inftance I have 

 feen of clover feed being fown alone on any land. It is commonly 

 faid that the fowing of this feed will anfwer no purpofe on very 

 poor land ; perhaps the reafon is that wheat, rye, oats, or 

 fomething elfe, is fown at the fame time, which exhaufls all 

 the flrength of the land to bring it to perfection, and leaves 

 the clover that comes up in fo weak and languid a ftate, that 

 it eventually comes to nothing ; when if the clover had all 

 the nourifliment the land was capable of affording, it might 



