3 6 TRAVELS THROUGH 



preparation for lucern caufed a crop fo much 

 greater. I remarked, that it would anfwer 

 to them always to give a fimilar prepara- 

 tion for barley. To this they would not 

 aflent ; but I believe it owing to their not 

 having fubftance enough to extend fo good 

 a plan of cultivation, from a few inclofures 

 to their whole farm ; for they did not give 

 me any fatisfactory reafons, though they 

 feemed fenfible enough. This is a frefti in- 

 ftance of the evils that accrue to the nation, 

 from keeping the peafants poor. But, to 

 return to the lucern. 



When the barley is carried from the field, 

 they manure it over as well as they are 

 able. Their ftable dung they fpread long 

 and frefh ; alfo flraw half rotten ; the afhes 

 they make in their houfes ; and the com- 

 poft they are careful to raife, of earth, and 

 other matters, for fome time before. This 

 they reckon the beft time for manuring lu- 

 cern ; becaufe, after it is older, the ground 

 is fb bound together, by its growth, that 

 the manure cannot aft fo well. It is not 

 in perfection till the third year ; after which, 

 for ten or twelve more, and fometimes 

 longer, it yields very fine crops. They make 



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