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' three ton to an acre in rich land. But one 

 " ton from fuch poor land appears to 'be 

 " a more extraordinary produce : and betides, 

 " the hay is finer, Tweeter, and more nou- 

 " riming than from the former. [This pro- 

 bably, becaufe the fainfoin from the poor 

 land was cut earlier than the other: for other- 

 wife, and the hay equally well-made, the rich 

 land produces the belt hay.] 



" As to lucerne, 1 could never get it to 

 " fucced on fuch a foil ;. but muft now do juf- 

 " tice to its merit : for I have cultivated it 

 " with fuccefs in a rich, deep, and dry foil. 

 " I have about two acres in beds, of three and 

 " four feet breadth, in fingle and double 

 ' rows, part tranfplanted, and part ibwn, 

 * which 1 keep carefully weeded, and which 

 * yields me generally three, and fometimes 

 " four, crops in a fummer. The firft crop 

 ** is now (the i3th of May) ready to cut, 

 " being a foot and half high." [By this ac- 

 count, it feems, that Sir Digby's lucerne was 

 very imperfectly and very (hallow hoed j for, on 

 fuch land as this, rich, deep, and dry, if well 

 horfe-hoed, it is ready to cut earlier than the, 

 1 3th of May in many parts of England ; and 

 rifes much higher than a foot and a half, and 

 even to twice that height, frequently higher. 

 The quality of this lucerne (hews alio, that it 

 was poor : for Sir Digby fays] " 1 find it a very 

 * great faving of corn. I give it to my coach 

 " andfaddle-horfes regularly every day, frc(h as 



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