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cat the wheat within that time, and tread the 

 feeds into the earth far better than if you put in 

 half the quantity of fheep, and let that half re- 

 main double the time ; for they eat the weakeft 

 wheat firft, and let the ftrong alone : therefore 

 the greater the number of fheep the better. 

 When they are taken out, bufh-harrow and 

 roll immediately. 



Of faintfo.n fow not lefs than five bufhels, 

 and from that to eight bufhels, per acre, though 

 four bufhels is the ufual quantity : for as faint- 

 foin is intended to be mown for a number of 

 years, the difference in the expence of the feed, 

 at firft fowing, is trifling, when it is confidered, 

 that by fowing the quantity recommended you 

 may get every year one ton of hay more per 

 acre, than by fowing four bufhels only. I 

 never knew an inflance of a crop of faintfoin, 

 or any other grafs, being injured by fowing the 

 feed thick* 



Saintfoin mould be fown in a clean fallow, 

 upon a fpring crop, and harrowed in and rolled 

 immediately. Almoft any fort of foil that has 

 a rocky bottom, or a white clay, is proper for it ; 

 but it will not thrive well except upon land 

 with a firm bottom. Saintfoin certainly finds 



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