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Sainfoine he fows after a fallow or turnips 

 ■with half a crop of barley, four buihels of 

 feed; it lafts in common 12 or 14 years. 

 It is never mown the firft year, but fed 

 with all cattle except iheep : After the firft 

 year, always mows the firft growth for hay, 

 and generally gets 50 Cwt. per acre, worth 

 30/. a ton: He gives it to his beafts, cows, 

 and horfes ; and it is reckoned a very great 

 improvement. 



The large Scotch cabbage he cultivates 

 in the following manner : Sows them in 

 May, tranfplants them twice ; the laft time 

 into the field in Aiigujl in rows, three feet 

 afunder, and two feet from plant to plant ; 

 ufes them for feeding cows, and fatting 

 beafts and fheep. The butter, if ufed 

 immediately, is good, but will not keep 

 12 hours. Six cabbages weighed 10 ftone 

 7lb. and half. But the average weight 

 from 8 to 1 2 lb. 



Mr. Farrer's hufbandry confifts chiefly 

 in attempting to perfect the common me- 

 thod of culture ; which will be feen by his 

 way of managing his fallows. He breaks 

 up the old ftubble at Michaelmas ; in March 

 or beginning of April, ftirs again, makes 

 it very fine by the middle of May : After 

 every ploughing he rolls it, fometimes with 

 a.fpiky roller, which he finds of great ufe 

 in breaking the clods in a dry feafon ; it is 



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