1^2 THE PRACTICE OP 



< it is cut : and I think it, in fome meafurc, 

 *' fupplies the place of oats. I have fre- 

 " quently fed fome of my horfes with half 

 *< lucerne, and half their ufual allowance of 

 " corn, and found that thofe horfes were in 

 " higher flefh and fpirits than the others, 

 * which had their ufual food, viz. hay and 

 * corn." [But there are many inflances, that 

 horfes, fed with good lucerne, require no hay or 

 corn, though hard -worked.] " Either in 

 " {ingle or double rows, with three or four 

 c feet intervals, tranfplanted or fown, it may 

 * do extremely well, provided you weed care - 

 " fully ; but that is effential. With fuch 

 * care and 6xpence, often repeated, viz. three 

 " times a year, you may have good lucerne 

 " on almoft any foil ; and, without it, the 

 ** moft proper foil in the world will not fup- 

 " port lucerne above a year or two." 



Sir Digby concludes, as before-mentioned, 

 with a full approbation of the Horfe-hoeing 

 Hufbandry in preference to the Common ; and' 

 his fuccels would have been ftill greater, had 

 he employed two horfes to hoe his deep land, 

 and given it at lead four horfe-hoeings with 

 two horles, inftead of three only with but 

 but one horfe. This was the leaft given, or 

 directed, for wheat by the author of this Huf- 

 bandry ; and none have yet excelled him in 

 the practice of it. 



In 1 763 the rev. Mr. Lowther communi- 

 cated to the London Society of Arts his ex* 



periments 



