1 62 Of St. Foin. Chap. XII. 



In drilling St. Foin not to be ho'd, and before the 

 Ploughs of my Drill were fo perfect in making nar- 

 row Chanels as they are now (for, when the ChaneJs 

 were open, they had Six times the Breadth, wherein 

 Part of the Seed was wafted), then my Quantity was 

 One Bufhel to an Acre, fometimes Six Gallons. 



But a fingle £cre (in the middle of a" large Field 

 of St. Foin) being drill'd late in OElober^ the frofty 

 Winter kill'd at lead Nineteen of Twenty Parts (d) 

 of that Bufhel. At firft it made fuch a poor Appear- 

 ance, that 'twas by mere Accident, or it had been 

 plow'd up for a Fallow ; but, miffing of that, a few 

 Plants were perceiv'd in the Summer, which by their 

 Singlenefs grew fo vigorous, and fo very large, that 

 the Second Year of Mowing it (e) produe'd a Crop 

 double to the reft of the fame Field, which was 

 drill'd in the Spring, with the fame Proportion of 

 Seed, and none of it kill'd : tho 5 all this Field was a 

 J much better Crop than fome that was fown in the 

 common Manner, with Seven Bufhels to an Acre. 

 r I have generally obferv'd the thin ( f) to make the 

 ^ beft Crop, after the Firft or Second Year. 



I have 



, that the fown would always meet with fo many Cafualtres- as this 

 did ; for then Eight Bufhels fown to an Acre might have been too 

 thin, and much thinner than all the reft of the Field was, tho* 

 drill'd with only One Bufhel to an Acre : And 'tis often feen, 



, that when an Acre is fown with feven Bufhels o£ Seed, the &. 

 Foin is as much too thick, as that fown with One Bufhel was too- 

 thin. 



I do not know, that of the many hundred Acres of St. Foin, 

 that have been drill'd for me, ever one Acre was too thin, except 

 when planted with Wheat: The voune Plants were kill'd by the 

 Frofk. 



(d) But I believe, there might remain alive Three or Four 

 P lants to each fquare Yard, Handing fingle, and at pretty equal 



Diflances. 



(e) But Note, This Acre was dunged, and in better Order than 

 the reft. 



. ( f ) But, notwithstanding I commend the Planting of St. Foin 

 thin, that moil of the Roots may be fingle ; yet I have Fields 



that 



