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always harrowed after each cutting, with 

 a machine, of which I took the draught. 

 See plate I. fig. i. 



i . i . Two bars of wood 7 feet long. 

 2. 2. 2. Crofs-bars, 1 foot 5 inches. 

 The teeth 1 foot long. Drawn by- 

 one horfe. 



Sometimes he ufes that reprefented by- 

 fig. 2. which is a folid piece of timber, 

 about fix or eight inches thick, and about 

 a yard fquare. The laft cuts the deepeft, 

 but is apt to choak. The lucerne has fre- 

 quently been made into hay, and yielded a 

 load an acre at each cutting ; nor has the 

 making it been found more troublefome 

 than with fainfoine or clover. The bailiff 

 calculates, that an acre will laft three horfes 

 at foiling the fummer round; but I appre- 

 hend this is a 'very large fuppoiition, for 

 the appearance of the crop fpoke no fuch 

 matter in three cuttings. He thinks it will 

 laft four or five years longer, and this I 

 believe may be the cafe, if the harrowing 

 is well executed, and the flrongeft weeds 

 were dug out. All forts of cattle have 

 been fed with it, but none aft eft it fo much 

 as horfes ; and it yields in general more 

 than any other grafs in that country, more 

 than either fainfoine or clover. 



This gentleman has likewife cultivated 

 large quantities of cabbages for feeding his 

 fheep, (of which he keeps fome hundreds) 



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