i68 Of St. Foi.x Chap. XII. 



(as we fanfy) for more of fuch. Plants, to make a yet 

 larger Crop ; not confide-'ng that 'tis the Widenefs 

 of thofe Spaces, and lefs Number of Plants, that 

 caufe the Crop to be fo large, there being more Fa- 

 ilure for thofe Plants. 



Where thele Spaces are narrower, and the Rows 

 of equal Thicknefs, we fee the Plants lefs when 

 grown, and. that they make a lefs Cropj and yet 

 there feems to be room for more Rows, which we 

 fanfy might make the Crop larger, not confidering 

 that 'tis the Narrownefs of thofe Spaces that caufes 

 the Plants and Crop to be lefs, for want of fufficient 

 Pafture. 



Thus, fondly increafing the Number of our Rows 

 and Plants, we bring our Crop (unlefs the Soil be 

 rich) to nothing, by too much over-flocking their 

 Paflure ; and, if that Pafture be over-flock'd, the 

 Crop will be diminifh'd more than in proportion tQ 

 that Over-charge ; for perhaps 'tis not impoffible to 

 prove (if we would be curious), that Plants, by 

 wanting a Fourth Part of their due Quantum of Nou- 

 rifhment, will be diminihYd to half (m) of the Bulk 

 they would have attained to, had they been fupply'd 

 with the other Fourth Patt. 



I have obfervM ho'd St. Foin to grow mpre, ancj 

 increafe its Bulk more, in Two Weeks, than unho'd 

 St. Foin in the fame Ground (and without any other 

 Difference) hath done in Six Weeks-, and the quicker 

 it grows, by being better fed, the fweeter and richer 

 Food it will make for Cattle, whether it be fpent green 

 or dry (n). 



( m) When Plants have not their dire Nourishment, they fuffer 

 the more by Cold and Drought ; fo that want of Nourifhment 

 diminifhing their Gr jjrth One-fourth, Cold, or Drought, or 

 bpch, may diminifh it another fourth. 



(n) Cattle are the beii Judges of the Goodnefs of Grafs, and 

 they always ciioofe to feed en St Foin that is molt vigorous, 

 and refufe that which is poor and yellow. And the richeft 

 fweetefl: Gia.~s will always make the bell Hay; for the drying of 

 jt does not change the Quality of the Grafs. 



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