Mr^Delahigarre on Perennial GraJfeSf C5c. m 



The beft manure for lucerne which I know, is the dung 

 of fowls and pidgeon-houfes, well dried by the fun, and 

 reduced into powder ; but it feems very fcarce, and too 

 difficult to be got in this country, although a great deal lefs 

 of this laft manure would be required, as in the proportion 

 of one to nine. Dung of cows, horfes, or of any other 

 cattle, ought to be rejected as bad manure, upon lucerne — 

 becaufe they bring with them fuch a quantity of weeds, as to 

 poifon the beft lucerne in the courfe of two years. 



PRODUCE. 



The third year the lucerne has acquired its full flrength^. 

 then upon a common average one acre v/ill produce, viz. 



The firft crop, ». . . . . . . 2500 weight. 



The fecond, 1400 do. 



The third, 600 do. 



After the third crop, let it be fed upon by your cows all 

 the remainder of the falL 



Such a piece of lucerne will laft from nine to ten vears : but 

 however great may appear the profit of that cuhure, there is- 

 a greater one after the lucerne is v.-orn out : 1 mean the richnefs- 

 aiforded to the ground by the roots of that plant : Vv hich is 

 fdch, that the firft year the lucerne has been ploughed up, I 

 isas. never able to raife wheat, which grew too rich, tall, 



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