L'2'i sow CHICORY. [MARCH. 



gious, with the additional circumstance of an after- 

 grass extremely valuable for weaning and keeping 

 lambs. I know not a more lamentable circumstance 

 than to see such poor soils yielding a beggarly pro- 

 duel: in corn, other grass and turnips, with not one 

 acre of sainfoin where there ought to be an hun- 

 dred. 



Sainfoin, on extremely favourable soils, will get 

 the better of weeds, but it is always right to sow 

 it with barley after turnips ; four bushels an acre 

 broad-cast, but three are enough drilled. If with 

 drilled barley, the best way is to drill the corn first, 

 and then the sainfoin across the former drills. 

 Three bushels of good seed sown in this way is 

 enough for an acre. 



SOW CHICORY. 



For several purposes on a farm, this is of such 

 importance, that a fanner cannot, without its as- 

 sistance, make the largest profit on various soils. 

 Whenever it is the farmer's wish to lay a field to 

 grass for three, four, or six years, by way of rest- 

 ing the land, or for increasing the food of sheep, 

 he cannot hesitate. There is no plant to rival it. 

 Lucerne demands a rich soil, and will always be 

 kept as long as it is productive', hut upon inferior 

 land it is not an equal object. Upon blowing sands, 

 or upon any soil that is weak and poor, and wants 

 rest, there is no plant that equals this, which, if 

 sown with a portion of cocksfoot grass and burnct, 

 form a layer for six or seven years, far exceed- 

 ing 





