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VETCHES. 



WHEN we confider the nature of the 

 Norfolk foil, and the excellency of the Nor- 

 folk hufbandry, we are, at the firfl fight, fur- 

 prifed that vetches arc not more in ufe, as 

 fummer-food for farm-horfes ; — and nothing, 

 perhaps, but the cftablifhed prevalence of 

 clover can account for it. Clover is not only 

 inown for foiling horfcs in the ftable; but, 

 as has been already noticed, horfes are fre- 

 quently "roped'* or teddered on clover; as 

 well as turned upon it loofc. 



This prafticc was, probably, eftabliflied 

 when clover was new to the foil, and the crops 

 of courfc large and luxuriant ; and it was then 

 no doubt the moft eligible management : never- 

 thelefs, it may, now, when the foil is no 

 longer the favorite of clover, be worth the at- 

 tention of farmers, of the prelent day, to try 

 whether more vetches, and proportion;ibly lefs 

 clover, would not be the moft eligible 

 management. 



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