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haulm into racks and the chaff into troughs, and 

 if the haulm was chopped with an engine, it would 

 still be of much more value. 



Burnet, I am fully persuaded, will prove a 

 very great acquisition to husbandry on many ac- 

 counts, but more particularly for the following rea- 

 sons. 



Burnet is a good winter pasture, consequently 

 it will be of great service to the farmer, as a con- 

 stant crop he may depend upon, and that without 

 any expence for seed or tillage, after the first sow- 

 ing ; whereas turnips are precarious and expensive, 

 and when they fail, as particularly this year, the 

 farmer is very often put to great inconveniences to 

 keep his stock. 



It affords both corn and hay. Burnet seed is 

 said to be as good as oats for horses. I knovr 

 they will eat it very well : judge then the value of 

 an acre of land which gives you at two mowings 

 ten quarters of corn and three loads of hay. 



The seed indeed is too valuable to be put to 

 that use at present ; though it multiplies so fast, 

 that I doubt not but in a few years the horses will 

 be fed with it. 



It will bear pasturing with sheep. 



It makes good butter. 



It never blows or hoves cattle. 



It will flourish upon poor light, sandy, stony, 

 shaltery, or chalky land. 



Burnet, after the first year, will weed itself, 

 and be kept clean at little or no expence. 



The 



