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 fow it among barley, fallowing the ground 

 as a preparation which they otherwife do 

 not practice, except for wheat: the firft, 

 the lucerne produces a very fmall crop, but 

 the fecond, and afterwards, for fifteen, 

 twenty, and fbmetimes for thirty years, it 

 continues to yield a moft beneficial product. 

 It will bear cutting four times in a year, 

 and each cutting fo full a crop, that the four 

 in hay, amount to fix or feven loads : but 

 they do not often make the whole into hay. 

 They take one or two cuttings for that 

 purpofe, but the reft is mown for giving 

 green to cattle in {tables or penns $ whole 

 dairies of cows are fed on it in this man- 

 ner, oxen for work, fatting heifers, fheep, 

 fwine, and horfes : horfes in particular pre* 

 fer it to all other food : one acre will keep 

 four or five horfes through the Summer, or 

 as many cows or oxen ; and, by means of 

 confining them to penns, and littering them 

 with whatever they are able to procure, 

 ftraw, ilubble, fern, leaves, rubbifli of any 

 fort, they are able to make very great quan- 

 tities of dung for the vineyards, which 

 here, as every where elfe, they reckon a 

 great object. In a word, lucerne they find 



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