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On Artificial Grasses. .% 



By this management the soil would acquire a vast increase of vegetable 

 mould, and by the pasture maintaining one-fourth more stock than it did before, 

 it would be greatly charged in manure, by which means the land would be kept 

 in perpetual good condition. And when brought under tillage it Avould produce 

 one-fourth more corn than it did before, 



2. Of Middle Trefoil. 



Trefoil with lax spikes, flexuose branching stems, nearly equal corals, Jtnd 

 subulate- linear stipules. 



Perennial, flowering in July. 



Differs from the former in having a more branchy, flexuose stem, longer, 

 linear stipules, the two upper calycine teeth shorter, and laxer spike. Leaflets 

 elliptic, subglaucous beneath, and hairy on the margins. 



This clover grows naturally in high chalky fields, and in gravelly fields 

 with clay beneath. In the most improved parts of the country, where the land 

 is to rest for some years, this seed is sown along with the white clover, as it con- 

 tinues in the ground much longer than the meadow trefoil, and is nearly as pro- 

 ductive, especially on chalky and poor soils. , 



If a crop of any of those clovers is taken in lieu of a crop of corn, the grain 

 should be sown first, but less in quantity than if no seeds were sown with it, and 

 after the land has been made fine by harrowing and rolling, then fourteen pounds 

 of clover seed, and two pecks of best ray grass should be sown upon an acre, 

 bush harrowed the length way, and rolled the cross way of the ridges; afterwards 

 the whole must be well gripped or drained. Nothing more is necessary to be done 

 on account of the seeds till the next spring, when the land should be well dressed 

 with the sward-dresser, or harrows drawn with long bushy thorns, the latter end 

 of March or beginning of April, then cleaned, and rolled the qtoss way again. In 

 all these operations the land should be neither too wet, nor too dry, but in a due 

 medium with respect to both. 



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