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Poterium songuisorba, (burnet) 2 pecks. 



Trifolium pratense, red clover, 6 Ibs. 



" repens, white clover, 8 do. 



This mixture was regarded as sufficient for an acre. We 

 see in this prescription a love for variety and an excessive 

 amount of seed. As pasturage is one of the great desiderata 

 in this State, and as this grass stands dry weather remarkably 

 well, it will probably be one of the most important measures 

 in husbandry to encourage its cultivation. "Whether it can 

 be shown hereafter that it will give as much profit per acre 

 as has been reported for a field near Rochester, N. Y., can 

 only be determined by experiment. The profits reported as 

 having been reared from one and a quarter acres of ground 

 were given in the Genesee Farmer, Vol. Y, p. 245 : 



There were obtained 17 bushels of seed, $2 per bushel $34 00 



Yielding, also, 2 tons of hay, $10 per ton, 20 00 



for the first crop. 

 There were obtained 1}^ tons for the second crop, 15 00 



Amounting to $69 00 



Expense for gathering crops : 



Cutting and shocking seed, one hand half a day, 50 



Threshing, 1 00 



Cutting stuble, ] 00 



Making the same into hay and overhauling, 1 50 



Cutting and making hay of the second crop, 2 00 



Interest on the value of land, 4 87 



$10 87 

 Deducted from sales, leaves a nett gain of 53 1 2 



To save the seed properly requires the skill of a good cracl- 

 ler, who cuts the tops and ties them in bundles to dry in the 

 field for eight or ten days. They should be hauled into the 

 barns and threshed immediately with a flail. If there is a 

 large quantity of seed it should be still allowed to dry upon 

 the floor, as when retaining moisture it is apt to heat in the 

 heap, when the vitality of the seed is destroyed. The seed 

 us above stated, is very light. If sown with clover, one 

 bushel of orchard grass to ten quarts of clover seed makes 



