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fo hardened by the rolling, that numbers of plants will fail, for want 

 of being able to pielce it. This is the general Hiethod,=vvhen clover 

 is fown with corn : but it would be much better always to fow it 

 alone; for then the plants come on much falter^ and arc not choak- 

 ed For one whole feafon, as they frequently are dn the other way, 

 when the crqp of corn is .great* ^^^ ^- 



.Mr. Miller, after.many years trial, advifes tiierefore to fow the 

 feeds of clover in Auguft, when there is a profpeft of rain foon af- 

 ter: becaufe the ground being then warm, the firil fhower of rain 

 will bring up the plants, and they will have time enough to get 

 ftrength before the winter; and a good rolling in Odlober, when the 

 ground is dry, will prefs it clofe to the roots, and make the plants 

 fend out more ilioots : and this he advifes repeating agarn in March. 

 The reafon of his preferring this feafon for fowing of clover, rather 

 than the fpring, is, becaxife the ground is cold and wet in fpring, 

 and if much rain falls after the feeds are fown, they will rot in the 

 ground ; and many times, when the feed is fown late in the fpring, 

 if" the feafon fliould prove dry, the feeds will not grow. 



.About the middle of May, this grafs will be fit to cut ; when 

 particular care fliould be taken in iiiaking it into hay : for it will 

 require a great deal more labour and time to dry, than common 

 grafs, and will fhrink into lefs compafs : but if it be not too 

 rank, it will make excellent food for cattle. The time for cutting 

 it is ivhen it begiiis to flower; for if it ftands much longer, the 

 r lower part of the flems, and the under leaves will turn yellow, and 

 thefe lafl will fall off, and confequently the quantity of the hay will 

 then be lefs, and not fo well flavour'd. Care fliould likewife be 

 taken not to (lack. it till it be .thoroughly dry, for fear of its heat- 



One acre of this plant will feed as many cattle as four or five 

 acres of common grafs : but they muft not be fuffered to eat too 

 plentifully of it at firff, left it burft them. It Ihould be given them 

 by degrees, till they are fully feafoned to it : nor lliould they ever 

 be turned into this food in wet weather. Some fow rye grafs 

 amongft their clover, and let them grow tcgether, in order to pre- 

 vent the ill confequence of the cattle feeding wholly on clover: but 

 in this they are to blame; becaufe the rye-grafs does great injury to 

 the clover : for the rye-grafs, being more early in the fpring, covers 

 and cripples the young clover, and befides is obferved to exiiauft 

 the land, or rather binds the furface of it by its numerous creeping 



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