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\vill be fit for mowing : the seed is apt to shed, if 

 care is not taken in mowing it. It is best threshed 

 in the field, like turnip or co!> and the straw . 



made into hay. It yields very great erops of seed ; 

 and some persons have asserted, that it is as good 

 for horses as oats ; but no satisfactory trials of due 

 continuance have been made on it. 



The following notes deserve attention : 

 My burnet, though very green and beautiful all 

 the winter, made no great progress till the middle 

 of April following, when I thought it absolutely 

 necessary to feed it. I did so ; but I did it too 

 late, and kept my cattle upon it too long, from the 

 middle of April to the 2Oth of May. This was a 

 very great mistake : the burnet plants were now 

 headed for seed, and the stock fed chiefly upon 

 the heads, which greatly lessened my quantity of 

 seed, as well as retarded the growth of the plants. 

 I turned ewes, lambs, and calves into the field, and 

 they all fed very greedily upon the burnet. From 

 what I had heard of Mr. Rocque, I very much ex- 

 pected them to scour ; but there was not the least 

 appearance of it, and the cattle throve accordingly. 

 The 6th of July I began to mow, the weather 

 being favourable : six men and four boys threshed 

 and cleared the seed in seven days. I had 20O 

 bushels of very fine clean seed, as many sacks of 

 chafF, and seven loads of hay, from a field of seven 

 acres and a quarter. 



Satisfied that 20O bushels of seed would be 



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