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what can be done; and if h" does succeed, the ad*. 

 vantage will be unquestionable. 



SAINFOIN. 



There are parts of thfs kingdom, in which the 

 farmers could not pay their rents without the use 

 of this grass. On dry limestones and chalky soils, 

 or on any land perfectly dry and sound, it will 

 thrive to extraordinary profit. It may be safely 

 sown in April. The land should be clean, and free 

 from weeds and the seeds of weeds ; ami this is 

 the principal circumstance to be attended to. It 

 should be sown with barley or oats, the land in fine 

 tilth, and the seed covered by harrowing when the 

 land is dry. It may al-o be drilled as in March. 

 Upon the soils proper for this grass, no man can 

 sow too much of it ; for no other use of the land 

 will pay nearly so well. It will, on poor soils, hot 

 worth more than from 2s. 6d. to 5S. per acre, yield 

 a ton and a half, and even two tons and a half of 

 hay, or a ton at the least, at one mowing per acre, 

 and afford a considerable after-grass besides. Now, 

 the use of hay is so universal, that such products can 

 never want a market; nor such land, thus improved, 

 fail of becoming a source of profit to whoever pur- 

 sues such a beneficial conduct. The products and 

 profit *f such land in tillage, or in a sheep-walk, 

 are quite inconsiderable, compared to what sain- 

 foin yields. The proper quantity of seed is four 

 bwshels per acre. It flourishes so well -broad-cast, 



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