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The advantages of cultivating lucern are so ex- 

 tremely great, that the young agriculturist should 

 determine at all events, to have sufficient at the least 

 for the summer support of all his teams and other 

 horses ; and if in addition to this quantity, he pro- 

 vides also for thus feeding much other stock in his 

 farm -yard, he will find it a most profitable practice. 

 The proper soil depends principally on two qualities, 

 that it be quite dry, and very rich. If near the 

 stables and yard, the convenience will be much the 

 greater ; but to choose the best land on the farm is, 

 upon the whole, the best direction he can have. 

 Those who at present cultivate it on the largest 

 scab in Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, where arc 

 to be found large quantities of it, very generally 

 have it in the broad -cast ir : ode, and as far as posi- 

 tive practice goes, this method must be preferred ; 

 but as effective cleaning it, and especially from in- 

 digenous grasses, is an object of great consequence, 

 executed when broad-cast by a powerful and heavy 

 harrow, it much deserves attention, whether drilling 

 very btrai^ht at nine inches ecjui-distant would not 

 be a preferable method. Drilling has been tried 

 by many, and abandoned for random sowing ; but 

 nineteen twentieths of the drilled lucern which I 

 have jeen, have been at 18 inches, two feet, and some 

 even at three ; the consequence of which has been, 

 a heavy ex pence and trouble in reaping instead of 

 mowing ; and, if these spaces are kept truly clean, 

 the lucern being damaged by the pulverized < i ;:rlh 

 adhering to it, and carried to the racks. If drilled 



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