24 THE RURAL SOCPiATES. 



cording as the foil w?s more or lefs manured. — In re^ 

 gard to the grand experiment to find the difference of 

 produce from the feed of trefoil and that of common 

 jgrarfs, in ground where the culture and preparation are 

 the fame ; Kliyogg declares he cannot difcern any that 

 is material.— -It is^ much to be wifhcd that fenfible and 

 unprejadiced f irmers would take equal pains in making 

 experiments on lucerne, faint-foin, and other fpecies of 

 exotic graffes, whofe excellepcies are fo highly extolled 

 in the prefent age; as by a calculation of their jud advan- 

 tages over our natural herbage, we (houid be able to 

 determine whether the fubflitution of them would an^ 

 wer. Some enlightened friends of agriculture have al- 

 ready informed me, that the trials they have hitherto 

 made, fall fbort of the defired fuccefs ; and that they find 

 at much more profitable to continue the old method of 

 hufbandry, than to ufe thefe articles of modern difcov- 

 ery ; for inflance, the Flanders trefoil ; which, in ftip- 

 plying a very fucculent nutrition, excites cattle to feed 

 immoderately, and occailons very alarming dlflempers.* 



Kliyogg 



. * I fhoull irr:3ginc the only thing wanting to prevent this inconven. 

 senoe, is a due regulation of the quantify of irefoil which a beall may eat 

 \vithout hazirc?, and which never ought to he cxeeded. A proportion not 

 difScuk to afcertain, «.v!ih the afljftanceot a little attention anHI experience. 

 -r-The idvaloarh-t Colleciion of ohferiatiofis hy the ^Agricultural Society cf 

 Britannjy recorn; ends, in fevera! places, what, to me, appears. an excel- 

 lent meihod. "It had been remarked by the Baron de Pontual, thai to 

 ^* fodder cattle \s\\S tfefoil only, heated th'^m xo^ tt^.Och. A native 

 ** of Flanders taught hiai to temper this heat by a very ufeful piece of 

 *• economy. — Arr.ongll the Flemings, where the meadows abound with 

 "this grafs, they make layers in their hay-lofflj fix or feven inches deep, 

 ••of {haw and trefoil alternately. The ftraw imbibes the fcent of 

 •* the trefoil fo fuongly, ^'hat oxen and hcrfes eat both, with equal 

 *• avidity. By this means the value of (haw becomes equivalent to that 

 ** of trefoil, and ihe cattle are preferved fii'ek and cool." 



There h. great probflbiliiy likewife that Kliyogg was unacquainted with 

 the l)cU method for the culture of trefoil. The fame Ob/eii.ationi inform 

 tts, *' that it mcceeded very well when fo^vjj with oats, which is the laft 

 *• cropin rotatijii berue the ground is fuffered to lie fHllo^.-'-Preft^lent 



wc MjuiIuc, 'vbo began t.Q wake cxperiitcRis in 175S, has had remark- 



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