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best rule will be to do it according to the growth 

 of weeds : there is no necessity for it while the 

 rows continue clean : the weeds that arise among 

 the plants in the rows, should be plucked out, and 

 particularly all grasses, which are the greatest ene- 

 mies to this crop. 



But if the lucern was sown according to the 

 directions given in this Calendar, that is, either 

 broad-cast, or in drills at nine inches, probably 

 nothing need be done in cleaning this month; as 

 one or two scarifyings in the year, will keep it 

 sufficiently clean. 



BURNET. 



This month the crops of burnet left for seed 

 will be fit for mowing : the seed is apt to shed, if 

 care is not taken in mowing it. It is best thrashed 

 in the field, like turnip or cole-seed, and the straw 

 made into hay. It yields very great crops of seed; 

 and some persons have asserted, that it is as good 

 for horses as oats ; but no satisfactory trials of due 

 continuance have been made on it. 

 The following notes deserve attention : 

 My burnet, though very green and beautiful all 

 the winter, made no great progress till the middle 

 of April following, when I thought it absolutely 

 necessary to feed it. I did so; but I did it too 

 late, and kept my cattle upon it too long, from the 

 middle of April to the 20th of May. This was a 

 very great mistake: the burnet plants were now 

 headed for seed, and the stock fed chiefly upon 



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