On the Advantages of raifing Daify, 109 



advantages of propagating It on poor lands are many — iil. 

 Lands which will produce this hay may not be flrong enou^-h 

 to produce any other — 2d. Poor land will produce much more 

 pafture with this plant than any other— 3d. Sheep and 

 cattle are very fond of it, while it is young — 4t]i. It is 

 not eafily affeded by a drought; this makes it peculiarly 

 advantageous to Long-Ifland, which from its fituation is more 

 fabjea to drought than mod other parts of the country ; when 



other paftures are dried up this remains green and flourifhino- 



5th. It is never affeded by grubs or other worms ; when whole 

 fields of other grafs are deftroyed by worms, the daify receives 

 no injury from them— 6th. It is favourable to a crop of wheat, 

 and if you choofe to turn your daify-field to a clover-field, you 

 have nothing to do but manure it well, which will deftroy all. 

 the daifies. It yields much feed, and is commonly fold for about 

 four fhilHngs per bufhel tho' not well cleaned. Some people 

 ftrew the feed on poor lands without ploughing ; this anfwers 

 fome purpofe, but the belt pradice is to plough the poor lands 

 for wheat or rye, and fow the daify feed either with the grain 

 or early in the nextfpring, as may be moil convenient. About 

 three quarts of clean feed will be fufficient for an acre. 



