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Where these abound, lucern for hay is the less 

 necessary. The importance of a general system of 

 soiling can never be impressed too frequently. 

 The repetition and influence of the benefit pervades 

 every crop on the farm. Inasmuch as dung is im- 

 portant, this practice is so. Dung, without it, is 

 made during half the year ; with it, through the 

 whole, and he only who knows the immense con- 

 sequence of raising dung, can duly appreciate the 

 necessity of soiling. 



2. The soils that suit lucern, are all those that 

 are at once dry and rich. If they possess these 

 two criteria, there is no fear but they will produce 

 large crops of lucern. A friable deep sandy loam 

 on a chalk or white dry marley bottom, is excellent 

 for it. Deep putrid sands, warp on a dry basis, 

 good sandy loam on chalk, dry marl or gravel, all 

 do well ; and, in a word, all soils that are good 

 enough for wheat, and dry enough for turnips to 

 be fed on the land, do well for lucern. If deficient 

 in fertility, this circumstance may be compensated 

 by manuring, but I never yet met with any land 

 too rich for the plant. 



3. The best preparation for this, as for all other 

 grasses, is two successive crops of turnip or cab- 

 bage, both fed on the land, and the last before the 

 sharp' frosts are over. This management frees 

 from all weeds better than any other, and at the 

 same time greatly enriches. Upon land previously 

 clean, one of these- crops may do well enough; 



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