2IO M?'. John Sttvem on Wheats Clover and Lucerm. 



lucerne. The lucerne was not paflured 'till after the clover 

 was taken off of No. i, which was early in October. It was 

 then in many parts of the field upwards of two feet high, and 

 in full bloom. And though I am perfuaded in my own mind, 

 it would not have yielded fo large a crop as the clover, even if 

 it had fucceeded equally as well, yet, as it was, the pafture it 

 afforded was very confiderable. The whole field, from the 

 time the clover Y>'as off, till late in November, fupported five 

 head of fatting cattle, and three horfes. The cattle throve 

 greatly, although at that feafon the pailures were every where 

 in the neighbourhood, almoft entirely dried up, owing to a 

 fevere and long continued drought. 



I fhould by no means have troubled the fociety with any 

 thing refpeding thefe experiments in the prefent flage of 

 them, as lucerne is faid to require at lead two years to attain 

 to any degree of perfeftion ; but although thefe experiments, 

 as yet, can aSbrd no conclufive inferences refpeding the 

 ultimate profit of a lucerne crop, yet I apprehend fome 

 important deductions may be drav/n from them. 



"I. From the almofL total failure of the lucerne on No. i, we 

 may fairly conclude^ that the feed was committed to the ground 

 tco early in the feafon, efpecially as the clover that was fown 

 "v/ith- it fucceeded fo well. 



2. The indilTerent appcarr.nce of No. 2, may, I prefume, be 

 jittributed, principal iy, to the v/ant of a proper mehoration of 

 th'j foil. A fit matiix for vegetation was thereby, in t^;ie firiC 



