160 Qf St. F o i n. Chap. XIL 



If Barley, Oats, or other Corn fown v/ith St. Foin, 

 do lodge, it will kill (g) the young St. Foin that is 

 under it : But then fo great a Crop of Corn will 

 certainly anfwer the very little Expence of drilling the 

 St. Foin again, either the next Year, or as foon as 

 the Corn i.s off the Ground. 



St. Foin drill'd betwixt Rows of Barley or Oats, 

 always is ftronger than when drill'd amongft Corn 

 that is fown at random -, and therefore is in lefs Dan- 

 ger of being kill'd by the Lodging of the Corn ; 

 neither is the Corn in Rows fo liable to fall as the 

 other. 



The Quantity of Seed to be drill'd on an Acre 

 will depend, in great Meafure, upon the Goodr. 

 it ; for in fome bad Seed, not more than One in Ten 

 will grow; and in good Seed, not One in Twenty 

 will mifs ; which is beft known by ftripping off the 

 Hulks of a certain Number of Seeds, and planting 

 the Kernels in Earth, in the manner directed for 



to rob it ; but the other artificial GralTes rob it for a Year or Two, 

 until the artificial Failure is near loft ; and then the St. Foin ne- 

 ver arrives to half the Perfection as it will do when no other 

 Grafs is fown amongft it. 



The Injury thefe Hay-crops do to the St. Foin is beft feen 

 wher^ fome Parts of the fame Field have them/ and the other 

 Parts are without them. 



(g) When Barley, among which the St. Foin is planted in a 

 dry Summer, is great, there are few Farmers that know till the 

 next Spring, whether the St. Foin fucceeds or not ; becaufe the 

 young Plants are not then vifible ; unlefs it be to thofe who are 

 accuilomed to obferve them in all the Degrees of their Growth^ 

 I have feen a Field of Ten Acres of fuch, wherein, after the 

 Barley was carried off, nothing appeared like St. Foin ; but 

 when by the Print of the Chanels I fearched diligently, I found 

 the fmall St. Foin Plants thick enough in the Rows; they had no 

 Leaves, they being cut off by the Scythe ; no Part of them that 

 was left had any Green Colour ; but from the Plants there came 

 out many Sprigs like Hog's Briftles, or like the Beard of Barley : 

 This whole Piece of St. Foin fuceeeded fo well, that the Third 

 Year its Crop was worth Three Pounds per Acre, the Land being 

 good. 



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