12-2 Mr. Delahigarre on Perennial Qrajfes, &c. 



luxuriant, and lodging. Inflead of wheat, then you mull 

 fow barley or oats. 



MOWING. 



The moil proper time to get good and tender forage, 

 relifhed by the cattle, is to mow lucerne when in full blolTom, 

 or a little before the ripenefs of the feed. 



Another advantage of mowing early, is to have the weeds 

 cut down, which otherwife would come to feed, and fpread 

 over the field. 



When the weather is clear, one or two days are fufficient 

 to dry your lucerne hay ; and by fpreading over each row a 

 thin bed of any flraw — (that of oats and barley is the befl) 

 you may carry your lucerne to the barn, without any danger 

 of being hekted or rotten. The flraw fo intermixed v/ith 

 lucerne, receiving the juicy emanations of it, becomes more 

 palatable, and it is eaten like the befl hay by the cattle. It 

 would be needlefs to obferve what increafe of food that procefs 

 affords to a farm. 



DISORDER. 



In fome uncommon fummers, it happens that lucerne is 

 attacked by caterpillars, or other infeds. When this is the 

 cafe, and you perceive the flems and the leaves turning pale, 

 ycUov/, or fading, the only and befl remedy is to mow inflantly 



