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 principle is to water after every crop, and 

 for fome while growing; if buck- wheat, or 

 barley, or millet, followed the wheat, they 

 fow clover amongft it, which they water as 

 foon as the field is clear, and get thereby an 

 autumnal crop ; and in the following year 

 they water it like meadow, for every mow- 

 ing. Lucern, which is here a very lafting 

 crop, they alfo water every time it is cut, 

 in cafe the feafon is dry : they make it into 

 hay ufually, though they feed many of 

 their cattle on green mown food in flables, 

 to preferve them from the burning heats ; 

 yet it is not with lucern in particular, but 

 with whatever crops may be mowing for 

 hay at the time, though they think all their 

 cattle preferred it rather. This farmer, in 

 the above fyftem, and it is the fame with 

 many of his neighbours, raifes an immenfe 

 quantity of fcod for cattle, on account of 

 the number he is able to keep in a very ex- 

 tenfive tradt of uncultivated land, upon 

 which feveral villages have a right of keep- 

 ing what they pleafe ; and, when this wafte 

 is bare of food, they fupply the want with 

 hay or turneps. This latter root thrives 

 amazingly with them. At this early feafon 



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