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where it may root down eafily, rather upon a level fpot, 

 than on mountains or declivities. As much as poffible I would 

 chufe a fituation fheltered by woods or hedges from the cold 

 winds in the winter, and from burning breezes in the 

 fummer. 



TILLAGE AND SOWING. 



The ground intended for lucerne, muft be ploughed twice 

 before the winter, fifteen inches, or at leafl a foot deep. 



In the latter end of March you plough it again, and drefs 

 it with a harrow before the day of fowing : the feed is buried 

 in the ground by the harrow, taking care to fix chatwood or 

 branches under and betwixt the teeth, in fuch way as to 

 facilitate the covering of the feed, without going too deep 

 into the ground. 



There are two ways for the fowing of lucerne : the 

 firft, by itfelf, which is the beft : the fecond, mixed with, 

 barley or oats — ^but obferve not to mix lucerne with any other 

 perennial., 



"Whether lucerne is fown by itfelf, or mixed with 

 barley, take twenty pounds weight for an acre. If you 

 chufe to fow it with barley, take the exact meafure of the 

 quantity of barley which you are ufed to fow upon one acre — 

 then put in that meafure twenty pounds of lucerne feed, and- 



