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Culture of Crops Proper for, and Manner of 

 Using them in this Practice. 



It is a necessary part of this practice to raise and 

 provide such green and other crops of the grass her- 

 bage, root and top, and other such sorts, that can be 

 well and properly employed ; especially those which 

 have been already noticed, and a sufficiently full and 

 ample quantity in proportion to the number of the 

 animals, and to secure a proper succession of them, 

 which is so requisite and material in this method 

 of proceeding. For the most early use and applica- 

 tion, there should be a due extent of lucerne crop on 

 the deeper and more rich sorts of land, and of the 

 winter and other tare on the stronger and better sorts 

 of loamy land, in a proper state of preparation and 

 condition for their full growth ; the latter being sown 

 so as to come in at different times in such early fodder- 

 ing of the cattle ; and the former sown broadcast, or 

 drilled in rows at six inches distance, in order to be 

 more abundantly productive, and to bear the early 

 cutting more perfectly : the first crop of winter tares 

 should succeed the early cut lucerne, the later put in 

 crops of the same tare kind succeeding that ; after 

 which the rye-grass and red clover on the mellow 

 loams will be ready in most cases, to which another 

 crop of the winter tare and the second cut of lucerne 

 will succeed ; when still later, these being finished, the 

 spring tare crop may be in readiness, and be followed 

 by the third cutting of lucerne, cow-grass, and white 

 clover, with sain-foin on the chalky grounds, when the 

 rich natural grass will be in a proper state for being 

 cut if required. At different times in the more early 

 parts of such foddering and keeping, the roots and 



