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cereal gramine. If the soil be well pulverised, [as 
it ought to be after turnips] a second ploughing 
would be a waste of time and money: (1) proceed, 
therefore, to sow your barley broad cast,(2) and 
cover it with a short toothed harrow. The last op- 
eration will be to sow and roll in your clover seed, 
destined to become the next crop ii in succession. 
V. Of Clover. 
‘The Frifolium Agrarium of Linneus, is found 
growing spontaneously in miny places, as is sufti- 
ciently indicated by the names given to it—of Dutch 
clover, Spanish clover, clover of Pidmont, clover of 
Normandy, &c. &c.(3) It is about two centuries 
since it first became an object of agricultural atten- 
tion as forage, \ hile its ameliorating effects on the 
soil (produced by its peculiar system of roots and 
leaves) was a discovery of modern date. It is now 
generally sown with barley, or other spring grain of 
the culmiferous kind, and rarely by itself. The ad- 
vantages proposed by this practice, are three: Ist, 
the preparation given to the soil for the grain crop, 
which is exactly that best fitted for the clover; 2d, 
the protection given by the barley to the young 
clover, against the combined effects of heat and dry- 
ness; and 3d, the improved condition in which it 
(1) The Romans had two maxims on the subject of expense, which it would be 
wise in us_ to adopt: * those profits are to be preferred, which cost the least; and 
again, * nothing is less profitable, than very high cultivation.” “ Nihil minus expe- 
dire, quam agram optime colere.”” 
(2) Mr. Young’s experiments shew, that there is something in the constitution, or 
habits of this grain, to which the drill, or row husbandry, is not accommodated- 
Even isolated grains, wed ond worlled, did not do better than the same number in 
broad cast. 
(3) A seed of Holland clover, of the same volume with one of Normandy clover, 
sveighs one seventh more. See Gilbert on Artificial Meadows, 
