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plenty of meadow-land. If he is deficient in these, 

 it becomes more than useful, it is essential. 



The unfortunate circumstance which attends 

 clover, is its being extremely apt to fail, in districts 

 where it has been long a common article of culti- 

 vation. The land, to use the farmer's term, be- 

 comes sick of it. After harvest he has a fine plant, 

 but by March or April, half, or perhaps more of it 

 is dead. This makes a new course of crops neces- 

 sary. Instead of its occurring once in four years, 

 in the common Norfolk course, it becomes neces- 

 sary to sow it only in the second round alter- 

 nately, beans after barley in one course, and then 

 clover in the next. This has been found to an- 

 swer. This observation, however, should be made 

 not without observing, that on a farm at Mor- 

 den in Surrey, Mr. Arbuthnot, by means of 

 deeper ploughing than common, and ample ma- 

 nuring, succeeded well with clover every third year 

 in this course : 



1. Beans, 



2. Wheat, 



3. Clover, 



on land that was said to be sick of it, though 

 sown before only once in four years. I viewed his 

 crops in that new course during three rounds, and 

 never saw finer. 



Ten to 12lb. an acre is the usual quantity of 

 seed, but 15 is better. 



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Upon light and poor sandy lands, on which 

 clover does not succeed well, it is common hus- 



1 4 bandry 



