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both make hay of it, and mow it, for giving 

 green to their oxen, horfes, and cows ; in 

 which way the advantage of it is very great. 

 Sheep and fwine alfo are fed to profit on it. 

 The beft foil for it is a dry good loam, or 

 clay, but it muft not be wet. Sainfoine 

 fucceeds beft on dry ftony hills, where it 

 yields very great crops, and is more valued 

 than common paftures. Many dairies of 

 cows are fed the year round on this 

 grafs, and to good profit. Clover has of 

 late years been pretty much cultivated upon 

 the lands that are not fubjecled to the ron- 

 tine of wheat upon fallow, and then barley 

 or oats ; they both mow it for the ufes to 

 which lucern is applied, and alfo feed it 

 with various forts of cattle. M. Morault 

 gave me one inftance of good management 

 in a farmer who hires his land by leafe; 

 which was fowing clover over his wheat 

 in the Spring, mowing it twice for hay in 

 the barley year of the common field, and 

 leaving it on the ground in the following 

 year of fallow : it is fo fed by all the cattle 

 of the field, as to be quite dunged, and then 

 he ploughed it up, and fowed with wheat, 

 at the time the reft of the fields ploughed 

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