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of resting the land, or for increasing the food of 

 sheep, he cannot hesitate. There is no plant to 

 rival it, Lucern demands a rich soil, and will al- 

 ways be kept as long as it is productive, but upon 

 inferior land it is not an equal object. It should 

 tiot be sown with any view of making hay in this 

 climate, though it forms a considerable proportion 

 of many of the best meadows in the South of 

 France and in Lombardy. Objections to it have 

 been made, by reason of its rising, and becoming a 

 vivacious weed, in succeeding crops. If the cir- 

 cumstance be not guarded against this will happen, 

 but not more, or so much as with lucern. But 

 who ventures to forbid that culture on account of 

 this quality, which is really founded on its merit ? 

 When the land is ploughed, only use a broad sharp 

 share, and harrow in tares, for feeding or soiling, 

 or break it up for turnips, and there is an end of 

 the objection. Such observations against a plant 

 are truly futile, and arise only from ill manage- 

 ment. Let us, therefore, suppose a farmer too 

 wise to listen to them, and that he determines to 

 sow the plant. He may do this broad-cast, among 

 spring corn, in the same way that clover is sown; or 

 he may drill it at nine inches on poor land, and at 

 twelve on better soils, in order to give it now and 

 then a scarifying ; the first for feeding, the last for 

 soiling. From lOlb. to 12lb. of seed per acre is the 

 proper quantity. Once harrowing after sowing is 

 Sufficient. 



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